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Year: 1873

Adoniram Podge got liberal price


For the truck that he took to town;
The top of his measure was always nice,
But shabbier deeper down;
And the wood was straight on the top of his loa
And crooked and gnarled below;
But the heavier part, on rutty road,


Will always shake down, you know.
Adonram's Bible was worn and old


From the usage that it had got;
But piece of knowledge that was never told
Was whether he used it or not;
If SO. his memory served him wrong,


For he was not much of n doer
To the needy and friends who came along
With the story that they were poor.
A capital man in church was Podgc--


To groan when the minister prayed;
And he knew to L the collection dodge


And how much money he paid;
And he had in a frame, in his old front room,
Kept clean and neat by his wife,
paper which stated a certain sum


Had made him a member for life.
Year: 1873

Adoniram Podge kept hired man,


And he fed him on cabbage and beans,
Which were kept cooked up in an old tin pan
Along with some pig-weed green's;
And he made him work from the break of day
Till the sun took its final lurch,
And docked him then of quarter his pay
That the savings might go to the church.
Adoniram finally died one night


And left the farm to his son,
Who follows as near as true son might


In the course his father run;
And he daily drives to the market town


With the mare and her spawned legs,
And he boards up money and salts it down
BY selling his butter and eggs.
Year: 1873

The visitation of the smallpox to the
various principal cities of this country
has naturally awakened great anxiety !;
but when we compare the ravages of the
scourge here with the extent of it's raw
ages in other countries, there will be
found some cause for thankfulness that
with us it is no worse. For several years
past the disease has literally dwelt
among the cities, towns and villages of
South America, and the circumstance
that those places are in the main
noted for their unclcanliness will afford
valuable suggestion, not merely to the
health boards of our cities, but to the
heads of families, and in fact to every
individual capable of appreciating the
value of health or the difference between
dirt and cleanliness. In Chill, especial
ly, the smallpox has been raging for
some time past, and the most recent ad-
vices state that it is increasing in Lima,
and that it has become so terrible in the
town of Lata that the people are aban-
doning the place. The newspaper there
says, "The plague overruns the town.
Not street, court, or alley is without
its victims. No one thinks of succor,
or of hygienic measures. God have pity
on us"
Year: 1873

And he keeps the Bible, so worn and old,
And he reads it, without a doubt;
But the leaf containing the rule of gold
Is somehow or other torn out
And blottcd all the verses which speak
Bad things of the trickery doer,
And 'twixt its covers 'twere vain to seek
For a word of cheer to the poor.
Year: 1873

Health. peace and fierce norther are
among the characteristics Of the last week !;
but the weather has tempered down again,
and rain or frost may be looked for soon


The fall of the l.af is here In every
tree emhowered street. in every forest and
field we find tossing over the open ground.
or living in peaceful nonks and IN great
abundance. these evidences Of decay.


The late, or rather earl rains, which
mapy suppose might injure the volunteer
crop. and star; too early the seed in Sum
mer fallowed land have not it %ould seem
done much if any damage; and rains now
are not to be feared, as the season ls late
that they are almost sure Of be ng followed
up by sufficient sho ~ers to keep the ground
moist.


The announcement that James Lick OF
San Francisco would erect and endow q
California observatory TO be located on the
high Sierra. has been received with much
thankfulness by the press; and now II he
would construct and endow au institution
for teaching trades to boys ard girls, he
would thereby raise monument of gratl-
tude to himself that would remain TOR ages
His wealth is great. and his capacity to put
it where j, will do most good sitter ne Is
dead, is not doubted by those who know
him best.
Supreme Court last week reiterated an
oft declared principle that sale for pub
lie taxes. properly made and redeemed, ac
cording to law, gives the purchaser an alb
solute title against all the world, We only
the State and the United States. 1t wipes
out all other titles or claims of whatever
name or nature, whether echaric's liens.
prior deeds or any other device of law
The same Court also decided, within the
past week. that mother having minor
children to support, whether the child or
children be legitimate or rot. is entitled to
all the intendments and benefits OF the
Homestead Law.


In Marvsvile and Santa Rosa there is
talk of making an effort toward the estab
lshment OF beet sugarie at each place
Every locality of note in the valleys can
and ought to have one, as If well conduct
ed, they would find it profitable.


The State officers are sending in theil
reports to the Governor. who has already
received those of the Controller and Sur
veyor-General. the former of which as il
treats the question of finance mainly, is
the best paper Of the kind ever prepared
10 California.


In five weeks from this day the twentieth
session of The California Legislature will
meet in Sacramento and before Christina.
it must make an effort or many efforts Il
elect United States Senator, provided il
can be organized in the FIRST week of tn.
meeting. Who shall be Senator many may
guess, but none can know, for that questi"r
was never in a greater muddle than now
The larger opinion seems to be that tht
name of the successful man will not be
Booth or Casserly-Bee.
Year: 1873

President Grant is represented by Her.
aid reporter. as expressing himself pretty
freely and frankly on the topic of third
term A few evenings before he left the
Branch on his Northern tour, the articles
i the Herald on Casarism were the topic
of conversation among those familiar at bis
household with two or three visitors, rela
tives ofthe family. During the conversa-
tion the President was good listener leis-
urely putting his cigar, with his dexter
'eg resting on the left. when the question
was asked what he thought OF the discus
sion. Why, he calmly replied, it does not
interest me IN the least. 1t is no more
business of mine to manage the POLITICS of
the country. The execution of the duty
of the office Of President are quite as much
as one man can attend to. and great deal
more than find agreeable. 1t is pretty
well known that l reluctantly consented to
give up my commission as General, even
when the success Of the Republican party
was assured but having accepted the nom-
ination, | was bound to stand by it. The
second nomination was equally unsought.
though l frequently told my friends l
thought the party owed me vindication
for having imposed with the Office the as
peration oftheir political enimies. didn't
bargain for that, and thought the charges
reflected more justly for having made the
mistake. | was perfectly satisfied what
the result would be at Philadelphia, as
was Of what followed in November. II
was none Of ny business except to accept
nr decline privilege know some Of our
friends would be glad te have. Let me
zee, this is August-March to August is
FIVE months, and now the newspapers are
anxi us to know if am going to serve a
third term when the second has hardly be
gun. The way Congress has treated all
my recommendations doesn't make me ap
pear eitl er influential or dangerous.
often think of Lincoln's answer to the im
Fortunate applicant for army orders-I
taven't any iuAucene with this Admins
traticn, my friends; you have to appeal to
Congress. If the newspapers want to know
whether I will be renominated why don'i
they quiz the party that elected me?


Why don't you silence this squabble by
announcing your intention to retire into
private life at the end OF the term? asked
one of the company. jokingly.


The President promptly answered.-You
forget the fate Of Colfax. Will it not be
time enough to refuse when the refusal is
at my disposal?
Year: 1873

OLD RESIDENT LEAvING.-Hon J. N.
Chappell has sold his place here, and this
week removed his family to Redding. For
a year past he has been employed at the
latter place and will probably remain there
in the employ of the R. R. Company as
long as Redding is terminus As his
business has called him from our town be
has decided to sell out here and remove en-
tirely to Redding so as to enjoy the presence
and society Of his family. We can well
believe that he disposes of his interests here
and leaves with regret, as Shasta has been
his home for many years and is endeared to
himself and family by ties Of association
and friendship that memory must ever
fondly cherish. Success to him and his.
Year: 1873

Be very careful not to pull down your
shirt sleeves, or up your collar, or, in fact,
to do anything to your costume as YOU en-
ter the bsll room. 1t implies nervousness
or uoeainess with yourself to do SO; and
your one great endeavor in all societies
should be to appear thoroughly at your ease,
and satisfied, without vanity or coxcombry,
with your dress and appearance. Do no,
stand idle, but do not dance overmuch.-
The one implies small number of friends
the other wastes valuable tine and prevents
you keeping that constant lookout all around
,ou which is essential to success. Be in
troduced to movable people quietly there
is no necessity to advertise to bystanders
that you did not know them before. New,
er talk much to woman you have only
Just the acquaintance OF, nor eagerly
She may be allowed to suppose you wish
to know her, but not that her acquaintance
is any particular acquisition to you. Above
all things, my dear boy, en:reat you not
to stand in the door ways nor herd with
other men upon the landings. 1t is simply
advertising yourself failure Tie yourself
to the veriest all-Hower, gossip with the
dowdiest mother, dance with the most dis
appointed OF the maidenhood, rather than
sink to this. Sitting in corners compris
ing very subject, or, rather, array Of sub
jects. To know how to sit in corners vel
and prudently requires . vast experience
and a steady head SO, until you have much
extended your acquaintance and your know
ledge Of humanity, / would recommend you
to avoid that most agreeable thing of ball
gong. 1t is not for novice at once tt
penetrate to the inner depths Of fashions
mysteries, and / shall therefore put off my
advice on that subject until come, in a
future letter, to the great subject Of flirting
which of course, comprises the art of sitting


in corners-London Society.
Year: 1873

LOCAL ITEMs.-These constitute the
chief value of country newspapers, and we
are always thankful to our friends who
write or tell US Of local matters. Unfortu-
uately, we are not apprised of some events
which would be of great interest to the
public until long after their occurrence
In order to make our paper complete in it:
department of local news, it is absolutely
essential that our readers should send u:
an account of all occurrences of Interest
which come under their notice. Tell Us o.
accidents happening, Of the improvements
going ou-in short, everything ct local in
terest
Year: 1873

A Coon ONE ON THE CHAPLAIN.-The
Democratic Times is responsible for the fol-
lowing: A day before the execution the
Chaplain at Fort Klamath was endeavoring
to convert Jack and seek rest for his soul,
and among other things, told him glowing
stories OF the happy land. His remarks
seemed to have an effect on the Captain
who asked him if he knew all about God
and the happy land. The Chaplain said
he thought he did. "Well," said Jack
"you know all about him, me give you ten
horses you take my place to morrow"
Year: 1873

The St. LOUIS Democrat tells what it
knows about shOtguns thus:


"Our experience and the history of the
past eighteen centuries incline Us to believe
that no matter how we'll you treat q shot
gun, nor how you bring it up, it will bang
the stuf6ng out Of you the very first time
it gets chance"
Year: 1873

HIGH SALARIEs-Thc next Legislature
will undoubtedly pass new fee and salary
bill, reducing the pay Of State and county
officers. High salaries are the prolific
source of political corruption.-Marysville
Appeal.
Year: 1873




A very touching case of mental aliena-
ton in charming young lady is de-
scribed by careful observer. Not long
ago her mother found her in her room
energetically darning stockings, and soon
after she appeared in the Kitchen and as
sisted that wondering daCle in making
and baking bread and pastry. Alarmed
by these fearful signs of intellectual dis
roder, her fond parents immediately sent
for skillful physician, who watched her
through keyhole while she sewed but
tons on her fathers garments and
mended those of her little brother.
Much affected, the venerable man re-
marked that never during a medical
pratice of twenty-five years had he
known any young person to manifest
such symptoms as these. The most
heartrending phase of all, Aowever, was
shown the other day, when her kind
father, with a faint hope of rousine
her from her sad state, gave her S2Ol
and told her to buy new dress. Alas


twas useless. She instantly obvervec
that she didn't peed new dress, and i
he would let her keep S25 to pay pool
widows rent, she'd much rather h'
would take the rest of the money fol
himself. For few moments that grief
stricken old gentleman gazed upon hi
hapless child. then hiding his face
muttered between his sobs, 'Her minC
is gone her mind is gone =
Year: 1873

DRINKING WHILE EATING.
never intended for any one to wash
down their food while eating. She has
wisely placed salivary glands in various
places in our mouths they secrete a
fluid for the moistening, besides a
chemical action of the food after mas
tication. This gets the food in a suita-
BILE condition for swallowing. Drinking
every few minutes while eating pre-
vents the usual flow of saliva also, it
washes it down before it can have a
chemical action on certain portions of
the food. One of the most pernicious
habits to health is drinking several tum-
blers of water while eating better
drink warm drinks. The stomach will
not digest one particle of food when it
has a temperature below 100 degrees of
Fahrenheit neither will it digest one
atom of food until all the fluid is first
absorbed. No healthy person should
drink more than half-pint of some
mild fuid while taking food, and dys-
peptics should not drink drop while
they are eating, not for three or four
hours after.
Year: 1873

There was much more than a mere


witticism in the remark Of the old


bachelor who paid attentions TO a mai


den lady for twenty years, visiting her
regularly every night, when rallied for


not marrying: eff / were married I
should have nobody to court, and no
place to go at night" he had deeply
felt the contrast between his own deli
cafS and ethereal enioyments, and the
hard, discontented, fretted life of too
many married people and his answer
was irony. He saw there was some
thing in courtship which too often ex-
pires after marriage, leaving a cold,
dull, nonotonous burden where all was
beauty and buoyancy before.


Let us see what that something is:
In courtship nothing is taken for gram
ted. Both parties are put on their good
behavior. Love keeps itself fresh and
active by constant expression in word
and act. But strange to say, courting
usually ends with marriage. Very soon
both parties yield to the sense of pos
session, and the feeling Of security robs
gallantry of motive and extracts the
poetry from the mind. The beautiful
attentions which were 50 pleasing be-
fore marriage. are too often forgotten
afterwards the gifts cease, or only come
with the asking the music dies out Of
the voice, everything is taken for gran
ted. and the love that, like the silver
Jet of the fountain, leaped 10 heaven,
denied its natural outlet, ceases 10 flow
altogether. Then comes dull, heavy,
Ilvg haisuyp ,i,a.-.-- ''---- - 3 -
ing.


This is unnatural and wrong. What
marriaaS wants to give il new tone and
sweetness, is more of the manner as
well as the spirit of the courtship
which come from the constant attention
of the parties to each other Their
affection voices itself in all possible
wavs. every sentence is edged with
compliment and spoken in tender tones.
Every look is a confession. Every act
is a word in the exnaustless vocabulary
of love. Kiss and caress are paren-
thetic clauses and gestures in the dia-
lect of love; gifts and sacrifices are the
most empathetic expressions Of the
spirit no Language can fully articulate
and no devotion can declare. And II is
the fact that affection confesses itself
continually in look and word and act,
making the voice musical and the fn-
gers poetic in their touch and doing,
that makes experience so beautiful, the
only Eden many a woman ever has on
earth.


Love must have expression or 1t VIII
die. 1t can be kept forever beautiful
and blessed, as at the first, by giving it
constant utterance in word and act.
The more it is allowed to flow out IN
delicate attention and noble service,
the stronger and more satisfying, and
more blessed it viii be. The house be
comes home only when love drops its
heavenly mama in it every day, and
the true marriage VOW is made not
once for all at the altar, but by loving
words. and hopeful service, and delicate
attentions to the end.
Year: 1873

We have three excellent turnpikes leading
from this city, to Shiloh, Deerfield and Mill
vile; OF at least they could be made excel
lent with some needed repairs. Turnpikes,
by some, are considered an imposition on
the public, by compelling them to pay for
travelling on the road, whether or not they
are so disposed. reasonable person, how
ever, could complain Of the slight amount
of toll, when the road is kept in good con-
dition. It is an imposition which should
opolize the public highway with a so-called
turnpike, which is no better than an ordina-
ry road, and in some places they are far in
ferior to the average roads in the part OF
loan and gravel which is readily procured
in this section of the State, when properly
placed on a sandy soil, make roads equal to
the very best in the country, and when kept
in good repair, it is pleasure to travel over
them. One of the most extensively Travelled
roads leading from this city is in horrible
condition We refer to that leading to
Fairton, Cedarville and beyond. 1t is not
only very sandy, but filed with deep ruts,
gullies, hills, and hollows; all of which
could readily be overcome at moderate
expense. If the inhabitants of Fairfield
and the lower townships are generally OPP
posed to turnpike leading from this city,
it would pay the townships well to improve
that road simply for their own accommoda-
ton. To a stranger, travelling through that
section of country, such a roads makes a
very unfavorable impression. The value of
farm land is always increased by good roads,
and our Fairfield friends would realize this
as soon as the much needed improvement
is made The whole section of the country
would be populated much more rapidly by
settlers from a distance, were there good
roads leading to this city. When strangers
come to view a country, they are more likely
to purchase and settle where there are ex-
cellent roads, than where they are in such a
neglected condition. We hope this subject
will be agitated by the progressive men of
those townships.
Year: 1873

While the PIoNEER'is keeping it's readers
posted in reference to different parts of the
county, your noted city of Bridgeton, and
elsewhere, | would like to inform you that
Roadstown is still flourishing. Ourmechan-
les are doing good trade in their line of
business. They complain somewhat of long
credits, but suppose those whom they trust
are not aware that they have to pay cash,
or purchase their stock ON shorter time.
Our professional men are also up to the
habit of "blowing our own trumpet quite
as loud as some not thousand miles from
your city, yet this may be accounted for
from our usual reticence. Our hotel is
about the only disgraceful institution in
this locality; we would sooner, any day tol-
crate lunatic asylum in our midst. Our
churches are in a iourishing condition, and
school houses better patronized than hotels.
formerly occupied by John Ware, and pre-
vious to that by the late Henry Mulford, of
your city, where he laid the foundation of
his fortune, and sold out about the year
1S40 The store is now owned and occupied
by Isaac Swing, who purchased the stock OF
T. ]. Hawkins, who formerly occupied the
store on the opposite corner, and added it
to his own. Mr.. Swing is also our Post
master, and is not only well adapted for
that position, but keeps most excellent
country store, and is quite favorite among
the people of this locality. There is no oc-
casion for our people to go to the larger
cities to purchase goods in his line, because
they can do as well here as anywhere else.
The farmers in this vicinity are industrious
and prosperous, Notwithstanding the high
prices of all kinds of labor, and the low
prices at which, at certain seasons, they are
are obliged to dispose of their farm pro
duce. Some of our farmers wives do not
much fancy the idea of making their butter
up into pound Jumps and printing it for the
qualification of the eye of your Bridgeto-
mans, when it can be made equally as good
without quite SO much fancy fixing. How
ever, if you will have butter done up in
style you will have to pay accordingly.
have perhaps said enough for this time, and
you shall hear again from


RoADsTowN.
Year: 1873




The Norristown Herald says: A young
man in town sent off his first postal card
this morning. After writing message on
the back he enclosed it in an envelope, clap
ped on three cent stamp, and dropped 1t
into the post Office, remarking that it was
very handy arrangement aud should have
been introduced years ago.


We hope that his postal card enclosed IN
an envelope reached its destination more
promptly than those that we have sent,
properly endorsed without the envelope
Perhaps after the various post-masters,
their clerks, mail agents &C., get through
reading them, they will forward them to
their proper destination. We advise those
who have anything important to communl-
cate by mail, to do as did the young man OF
Norristown.
Year: 1873

with the chances against us. Still the
solution meets and stillsa public clamo1
and we are glad that the question is
removed from the arena of public leg
islation Whether truly or falsely, the
public belief of corruption in these
matters is positive, and if this is re
leved, there will be confidence in
our Legislators far beyond anything in
the past twenty years.
Year: 1873

A day or two since, as one of our bricklay-
ers had his sand nicely spread and the walk
leveled ready for the bricks to be laid, and
poles placed across the sidewalk to prevent
persons from passing, a lady, who desired
to pass, innocently requested him to remove
the poles, while she went across. To which
he replied, ''Why, madam, that is the very
reason put them up, to prevent people go
ing by. She swung around the circle, evil
IDENTIFY disgusted at what she thought, his
lack of courtesy.
Year: 1873

Quite an extensive and desirable improve
ment is being made at Fairton, on the main
road, by grading and curbing, which, when
completed, will carry the water, during the
severe storms, along its proper channel
The gullies on each side of the highway are
being put in excellent repair. By this ar
rangement the large and valuable piece of
property in front of Swing & Tomlinson's
store, will appear to much better advan-
tage. Those gentlemen keep one of the
best country stores in this county; and they
have the means and facilities for extending
their building nearer the line of the road,
and with their popularity among the people
there is no reason why they should not do a
still more extensive trade.