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Year: 1873

A PosER.-Having been told that Adam
was the first man, and Eve the first woman,
little Ned pondered for while over this in
teresting information, and then suddenly
broke out with the question, "Who was the
first girlY" This was staggerer for Pater.
familias. Eve never had girlhood, and the
sacred record is silent as to her daughters
Cain found wife but we know not even her
name, much less where he got her. The first
women mentioned by name after Eve are
Arlah and Zillah, the wives of Lamench, but
neither of these was the First Girl. The first
woman mentioned with prominence after Eve
is Sarah, who was born two thousand years
after the first woman was created. What
were all women kind doing during these two
thousand years, that we hear nothing from
them? The First Girl! What an interest
ing object to contemplate! Was she fast
girl, we wonder, or "a girl of the period, and
did she follow the fashion set by mother Eve,
or did she invent new ones for herself? 1t
would be interesting to know whom she mar
ried, and what her wedding outfit was, and
where the happy couple went to spend the
honeymoon. But we suspect the First Girl
hadn't much choice in those matters, the Pat
riarchs, though they all begat sons and
daughters, being opposed to woman's rights,
and utterly scouting female suffrage.
Year: 1873

WA5HiN0TON, Uec. b, 1873,


No. go. sawyer VS.. Hoag.-Appeal from the
Circuit Court for the Northern District OF Illinois,
In this case the appellant was called upon to close
up his subscription for 20 shares OF the companys
stock upon the condition or the subscription
that the company would loan him IS per cent OF
security. lie did So giving his check for the value
OF the STOCK, and receiving the check OF the CON-
pany for the SD per cent for which amount he gave
his note, at fye years, amply secured. SUISSE
quanty this note was surrendered and demand
note given Ia lieu at higher rate OF interest, Sc
cured by pledge oi so shares OF the stock OF the
Filth National Bank OF Chicago. The transaction
was regarded and treated by both par es as loan
was 80 entered OIL the books OF the company, and
the stock was reported 70 the Auditor OF the
company adjusted q claim 1t was unable TO pay, and
gave certificate or tho adjustment and the
amount payable under II to the assured, who re-
signed II to the appellant for 33h per cent OF Its
ruptcy against the company sawyer sought to have
thc ccrtlhcate allowed as set of against his IN
deptedness TO the company. The assignee refused
TO allow IL and the Court sustained his action.
]. is here contendcd that Sawyer's Indebtedness
was not for subscription to the stock OF
the company, and that, under the circumstances
OF the case, neither the company nor its assignee
can be heard to say that the subscription TO the
stock Is unpaid AS between the parties
the transaction was loan, and all the legal
consequences OF loan attach to It, Sawyer
sustaiiis the relation OF ordinary debtor and Ia
not In the position OF stockhUlder whose sub
gcription Is not paid up II Is the right OF
debtor OF an insolvent insurance company TO pur-
count, and set them on against his Indebted
ness, Notwithstanding the purchaser knew the
company was insovent at the time he pur-
chased them. The relative rights OF the
Year: 1873

questions should not enter your councils for
discussion nor should anything foreign to the
great vital issues of anti-ring anti monopoly and
anti-corrupton and extravaganza be discussed.
These should be your only watch words in the
campaign, and when you have got over the river
you can then talk about swapping horses. No
man S past politics should be questioned if he is
honest and his past anti-monopoly record is good.


The fields are white and ready for the sickle;
the golden grain stands ready to be garnered,
and we earnestly ask you to cooperate with us
now in this Grand Reform Movement. For lit
seems to us as clear as a sunbeam, that if we
would be more than sldUes to the tyrant that
wields the scepter with more than kingly power
and haughtiness, we must as people unite and
act determinedly and earnestly upon the vital
questions foreshadowed in this address. Serfs
and slaves to the railroad power we may easily
become, but if we would be free, and enjoy
freemans rights, we mist buckle on the ,,chole
a1mor for this fight, and all the friends of Re-
form must go forth to battle together with Spar
tan zeal and courage, determined that if we fall,
we will fall with our faces toward the foe. Uni
ted we can win victory that will be priceless in
its benefits Divided, all our toll will be fruit
less, and our best endeavors will be stepped in
the wormwood and gall of total route and fail
ure sprinkled with the ashes of defeat. Let us
then unite, stand firm and make a gallant fight
for ourselves and those who are to come after US.


We, therefore, fix Saturday, the twenty-sixth
(26)day of July, for the election of delegates and
Monday following at o'clock P NJ, for the
holding of County Convention, to nominate
Legislative County and District candidates. The
Primary precinct polls will be kept open from
l to 0 clock p. NJ.


The following is the apportionment of dele
gates to each precinct.
Year: 1873

SEND FOR THE ADDRESS. THE test for
voters at the Independent primaries, which
take place in all the precincts in the county,
between the hours Of and s o'clock, p.
NJ, Saturday next, will be the endorse
ment and signing of the address. This be-
ing the case, we suggest to Independents
who intend 10 attend and take part in these
primaries, both Republicans and Democrats,
that they have an informal meeting now,
and send to this Office for copies of the ad-
dress, that it may be on hand ready to sign
in case of challenge of voters. We say
this at the request of the joint Independent
Committee, who have authorized us to send
the addresses when so applied for. Where
the addresses have been kept at the pre-
cincts, it will not be necessary to send for
them, OR the copy in the HERALD can be cut
out and used for this purpose.
Year: 1873

"S'cAr"- Mephais Americana,
next door isi, a rage. The HERALD proved
in an article, two weeks ago, that the whole
Auburn Ring caboodle was the ally Of
the monopoly, and, in doing SO, had to state
that the chairman of their County Central
Committee was also the chief attorney of
the railroad company, and thus the fears and
venom of the cat were both initiated, and it
lashes itself into perfumed fury over Judge
Hale and Jos. Walkup. We'll, Judge
Hale and ou-self have both been here twenty
odd years, been candidates against each
other "2O years ago., (the man that don't
know both of us well, is hard to find in the
county, and all that time two as good per-
sonal and business friends as ever lived in
Auburn. We hardly know why the argus
should besmear the Judge all over with
filthy soft soap and lie on us, unless it is
found in the fact that the former is the
railroad attorney, and we are warm friend
of the people and ever the opponent of the
monopoly that is trying to crush them.
This is the second time Judge Hale has
been numerically doused all over with the
filthy soft soap slops of the argus, and as
true and warm friend of his, personally, we
protest against its further continuance. If
this filthy bedaubing is to continue while the
Judge is the attorney of the railroad, then,
as friend, we would advise him to resign
the position. The abuse of us may be
pleasing to Stanford and Page, and may
keep the Argus in their employ. So mote
it be. We must still fight the monopoly
and its tool here, the Auburn Court House
ring.
Year: 1873

The sick chick next door, feeling keenly
the overtowering ability, standing, honesty
and every thing that makes the man, the cit
izen and the statesman of the proprietors of
the Placer HERALD, over his own dimin-
utive, liiputian self, disgraces the profession
Of even chickadee editors by guessing at
writers, calling supposed editors by name,
even, when they have never seen either the
manuscript or proof sheet, and delving into
the private business Of private gentlemen,
uttering all the falsehoods his poor brain can
imagine to drag others down as low as his
abhorred SELF Not an editor in the State
but loaths such creature and asks himself
wh at must be the character of the men who
employ him. lie seeks to be second Bo-
ruck after Morrill, & Anthony, bat disgraces
even the horse paper. We suppressed his
history when written ont by member of his
own party with request that we publish it,,
because it was not matter fit for our columns.
He Is nameless in these columns, as is all
matter calculated to lower public morals and
respect for mankind.
Year: 1873




WE, the undersigned members of the Demo
cratic and Liberal Republican County Commit
tees, respectfully submit that the time has fully
come when, if we would be free and enjoy our
sacred rights and the fruits of our own toll,
under laws made by and for us, and executed
by our own chosen officials, we must organize
and work as one man, and demand and en-
force these rights by every lawful means Sc
cured to us. The long and patient suffering of
the people of this county under ring and mo-
nopoly exactions marks page in local history
that can scarce find an equal in freegovernment.
Our taxation, State, county, township, and dis
trict. though double what we should pay, is
but 1.-THE of the burthens we bear from the
monster monopoly that bleeds us all from every
source'o Of labor, foritself, for its lesser mo-
nopoly adjuncts, for its newspapers its lobby
lists, and its evil swarms of shpendlaries and
ead-heads all over the county and country;
These are the constant drops that wear the
solid rock away; these the outgivings that
increase each laborers tolls; that deplete each
merchants, miners, farmers and mechanic S
receipts these are the exactions that you must
pay on all you buy and on all you sell, and
these they demand with the arrogance of Euro
pean lords. These exactons draw from your
earnings tens of thousands of dollars annual
ly, and leave you as poor at the end of each
year as when you began it. 1t is the disease
that wastes the fruits of your toll, the
fever wastes your strength and flesh. You see
and feel the effects, but you can scarcely tell
where your earnings are gone. And while this
monster and its malarious adiuncts are putting
your substance in their pockets, they, owning
more than one-haf the value of all the property
in the county. by fair valuation, refuse to pay
their Just portion of the taxes, while they prac-
tically own the officers you are compelled to
support, and make them do their bidding.
They corrupt on cause your officials to cover
and obey them Point to the official, either
county or Legislative. thai the Court House Ring
has furnished you for the last six years that has
had the manhood courage, OF disposition to
stand up and openly fight your battles against
this great corrupting, depicting incubus. A few
went into Office boasting what they would do,
but they all came out covering cravens, working
for self and the monopoly alone, and will now,
undoubtedly, receive the hearty support OF the
railroad and its lunkies for Office again. There
was given and loaned to the railroad company
by the General Government, State, and
Year: 1873

DESTROYING THE EVIDENCE. News
reaches us that the Independent Address
and call for an anti-monopoly and anti-Au-
burn ring convention, are hard to find in
many sections of the county, and the pre-
sumption is plain that the Auburn ring and
monopoly railroad has agents out stealing
and destroying or concealing these circular
addresses. This unholy alliance would de-
scend to any meanness to suppress the
damnng facts of their crimes set forth in
the address. The address and call can be
found in the HERALD this week again in full !,
and we request our subscribers to loan their
papers to their neighbors to read. The ad-
tress and call in circular form will be fur
nished to parties sending for them, but no
known ring monopolist need apply.
Year: 1873

CAPTAIN JAcK-The military trials, farce,
we might say, Of Captain Jack and his as
sociates, in the murder of Gen. Candy and
Thomas are over, and the verdict is sealed
and sent to the President through the Secre-
tary of War. The crime was proved on
them, and they were denied the privilege of
showing mitigating circumstances. That
would not have done, as it would have
lifted the veil and shown the robbery and
starvation of these ignorant savages by the
Quaker agents and military rings that dis
honor.the administration of our Government,
especially the Indian department.
Year: 1873

VOTERS REGISTER. now and
the fifth day of August, all persons desiring
to vote at the Fall election. without extra
trouble, and who are not already on the
printed Great Register, must have their
names placed on the Great Register. On
the fifth of August the Great Register will
be placed in the hands of the printers. and
all persons whose names are not then on it
will have to obtain. of the County Clerk,
special certificates before they can vote.
The County Clerk. all his deputies, district
assessors, and all their deputies will register
you at any place you can fad chem. Vo-
ters attend to this matter at once, as it is OF
vital importance TO you as citizens,
Year: 1873

The CAMPAIGN IS NOW OPEN. The fight
Is between the people and monopoly. The
HEnALD is for the people. All should read
it. ONE COPY sent to any address until
after election for FIFTY CENTS; ELEVEN
copies to one address for the same time for
FIVE DOLLARS. Those interested
should make up clubs and send the names
in at once.
Year: 1873

The Poand Report, strong and labored as 1t IS


the Report of the Judiciary Committee, skLitul


and artful with sophistry Collars plea with it,


sympathetic appeal to party, and Oakes Ames


long and well prepared speech, printed in advance


Of its delivery, to forestLl public sentiment ell
fail to satisfy public opinion, as to the innocence
OF the Credit MObilier brbsrs, bribe-takers, lers
and psrjurers. There is scarcely voice now Tais-
ell in justification Of the act, of these poiticsI
huxtsrs, who have made merchandise of theiI
votes and influence in the legislation oil the FedeT-
al Congress.


1t is true that Radical newspaper, here and
there throughout the country, from sympathy
with the party leaders who have diSgraced the
land OF their birth as well themselves, have made
excuses and tried to palate 30 some degree the Of
ience against the laws and the well established
customs Of the country; but for the terrible shock
which has resulted from the destruction of conf
dsnce in the supposed purity and honor of men
occupying such high and responsible positions in
the legislature of the country, there has been no
respectable newspaper or orator to raise q voice
in extenuation of the crime thereiH those men
have committed. aside from the men supposed
themselves to be in some measure interested. And
10 this there sppears good sign. 1t may be that
corruption which has rooted itself upon The legis
latiOn Of tire country and destroyed the con-
hdenes Of the people in those IN whom they had
co06ded, viii 10 some extent be eradicated. But
the evil can only be cured by the ejectment from
the Senate and the House of the bold and artful lea
dsrs of the most iniAmously corrupt organization
that ever existed The people must elect men
whose hands aTe unsullied or they cannot expect
them to be uninAuenced by the temptations and
vices which the wreck Of the late ter
rbe civil has left hanging around the national
capital
Year: 1873

We do not know how we can ever express our
gratitude to the Danbury NelOS for furnishing
us with panac9 for all the coughs and lung
complaints that we may be subject to this
spring. In the language of the melodrama, we
can only say, Heaven bless you, my che-ild -
Listen to his solid chuncks of wisdom: One of
our citizens who has been troubled with a Sc
we're cold on the lungs effected a recovery in
the following simple manner: He boiled lit
tie boneset and hoarhound together, and drank
freely of the tea before going to bed. The next
day he took five pills, put one kind of plaster
on his breast, another under his arms, and still
another on his back. Under advice from an
experienced old lady he took all these off with
an oyster knife in the afternoon, and slapped
on mustard paste instead. His mother put
some onion drafts on his feet and gave him a
lump Of tar to swallow Then he put some hot
bricks to his feet and went to bed. Next morn
ing another old lady came in with a bottle of
goose oil, and gave him dose of it on quill,
and an aunt arrived about the same time from
Bethel, with bundle of sweet fern which she
made into tea, and gave him every half hour
until noon, when he took big dose of SALTS
After dinner his wife, who had seen fine old
lady of great experience in doctoring, on Frank
lin street, gave him two pills of her make,
about the size of and English Walnut and of
similar shape, and two tablespoonful of home
made balsam to keep them down. Then he
look q nali-pln OF not rum at Jhe suggestion, OF
an old sea captain, at the next house, and steam
ed his legs with an alcohol bath. At this crisis
two of the neighbors arrived who saw at once
that his blood was out of order, and gave him
a-half gallon of spearmint tea, and big dose
of caster oil. Before going to bed he took eight
Of new kind of pill, wrapped about his neck
flannel soaked in hot vinegar and salt, and
had feathers burnt on a shovel in his ROOM
He Is now thoroughly cured, and full of graft
fJ1e. We advise rao1nrc tn apt th lie ont
fd u &c i 60. - readily found wher
danger threatens
Year: 1873

The American Agricultu1ist gives an a;erestIug
account OF the manner in hch chron are pro-
duced, and as this style OF picture is very popu-
lar just now, we transfer the account to our
columns, feeling sure that it will interest the
reader. The stone used is a peculiar limestone,
capable of receiving polish and yet absorbent
Of water.


To paint lithograph, the stone is first polish
ed, and then, whatever design is required is
drawn upon it with pencil made for the pur-
pose and which contains some greasy NATTER
Let US suppose that the artist draws picture or,
what is simpler, prints out the words American
Agriculturist. The stone is then wetted, and the
water sinks into the pores everywhere except the
place where the greasy ink formed the words
lnk, or paint, is then applied to the whole stone
with roller just as it is to types. This ink does
not adhere to the stone where it is wet but to the
words drawn with the greasy pencil the ink will
stick Then a sheet of paper is laid over the
stone, and the whole passed under apressi when
the paper is lifted off it will be found to have
taken up the ink adhering to the words upon the
stone. This process can be repeated over and
over indefinitely by mixing the stone and keep
ing il wet.


There must be as many stones as there IRE
colors and tints in the picture 10 be co fied
One stone must have all the redNparts drawn
Gu III another all the blue, another all the brown
pat4s Of the picture, and soon. Sometimes one
color Is printed over another to get the proper
shade, so that, to reproduce the picture the chro
mo has TO be printed color and bit at time,
on from ten to twenty or more stores, every
touch of the painter being faithfully copied =
When the chrome picture has received sixteen or
eighteen different paintings on as many different
stones, so that it is shadowed everyway like the
original it is finally pressed upon a clean stone,
which has been cut in grooves like the threads
OF canvas, and it now has all appearance of be-
ing real painting on canvas. TIE reader will
see that it is .n immense work 10 prepare the
different stones at first, so that each shall have
some Of the picture in just the right place and
color. It takes three or six months to prepare a
set of stones for picture, even if but copy
was to be printed But after the stones are once
prepared copies can be transferred to other stones
in few minutes, and after that they can 60 on
and print as maay thousands, or tens Of thous-
ands. as are desired
Year: 1873




"a SIN AND SHAME. AT the Wyoming An
nual Conference of the Methodist Church at Wa
verify, New York, the Committee on Temperance
reported a resolution declaring the habitual use
of tobacco to be sin and shame. Some of the
brethren who used the weed had no objections to
its being called a shame, but protested against its
being denounced as a sin, and after warm dis.
cusson it was referred back to the committe for
amendment. The committee then reported
resolution to the effect that 'the habit of using
tobacco by the ministry is wholly and necessari-
ly intolerable and inexcusable" This brought
out one of the clergy, who moved to strike out
the word ministry" as he insisted Twelve as
good right to use tobacco as any living man"
So finally, the conference resolved thai it gladly
recognized the fact that more healt:.ful senti-
ment is prevailing with regard to the use Of to-
bacco, and recommended ell to abstain from Tie
use of the same, and to discountenance is nse hy
all proper and legitimate means. This leiqes
the laity at liberty to chew and smoke and only
recommends the clergy to taper off.
Year: 1873

WA Western reporter died Of brain fever the
other day. He tried to take the notes Of a dis
course that his mother-in-law was making FOR the
benefit Of the family, and the swif,ness with
which be was obliged 10 work oversinined his
organization.
Year: 1873

A VERDICT EITHER WAY WILL Do-A Judge
holding court on the borders of Tennessee is said
actually TO have delivered the following charge
to a jury;


Gentlemen Of the jury, in this case counsel On
both sides are impudent and unintelligible the
witnesses on both sides are indecent and incredi-
BILE, and the plaintiff and defendant both stand
such acknowledged rogues, that it is to me in
different which way you give a verdict"
Year: 1873

GS- Short sleeves have gone out Of fashion
even in full dress. This is very apt to be the
when the fashionable feminine arm has been un-
dergoiDg the thinning down process Of winters
dissipation.
Year: 1873

SPORTING ANECDoTE.--If this is ,rae story
which the Bracken county, Ky, Chronicle tells,
it certainly is singular:


tJust after the last snow fell little son OF Mr..


Y Keene took his gun and started out after


one afternoon to see if he could scare up


it. He went up over Bakers HILL near the


etery, and not finding any rabbits, was COM
g home it being about dusk, when he accident
ly ran into flock of partridges which raised
and started to fly down the hill, but being blind
ed by the snow the entire flock brough ghtup plump
against the side and roof of a tobacco Darn with
such force that fourteen of them were l;llei -
The boy brought them home, when it wts found
that the craw of every bird was burs4d. They
had just had big feed of grain, and he shock
OF coming in contact with the barn bu ted their
craws, and they were captured. This is rather a
singular circumstance; nevertheless it is true"