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Year: 1872

The Vallejo Recorder has the following


About O'Clock yesterday morning, as


we were vending our way homeward, We


were suddenly startled by the report of a


gun. We rushed into the house from


which the sound proceeded, and found
matters thus certain husband living
in that neighborhood has a habit of walk
ing in his sleep, and his wife got SO tired
of having him frisk around the house
during the silent watches of the night
that at last she determined to tie HIM fast
after he got to sleep. She affixed a string
to his ankle and tied the other end fast
to what happened to be the most handy,
which was her husbands double-barrelled
gun, behindthe door in the corner of the
room. About ! O'Clock the sonambulist
arose for the purpose Of taking a ramble
around the rooms. When he had taken
about six steps, the artillery came out of
its seclusion in the corner with jerk, and
both barrels went off, the loads crashing
the pahels of the door 1t soon
brought both parties to coHsciousness
Yesterday he was busy putting a new
panel in the door, which is far better than
digging load of buckshot out of the
baby"
Year: 1872

Oil explosions most frequently occur from the lamp being upset and broken. By using Pratt's Astral Oil you avoid this as well as every other danger incident to unsafe oil, it being in every respect per- fectly pure, reliable and safe article.
Year: 1872

The interior of Africa which yesterday was
a terror incoqn,ta is now better known to the
public than the interior Of Asia or South
America. Nothing remains unknown but
that vast and formidable barrier OF ice which
Immediately surrounds the pole, and preserv-
ed in whose cold embrace lie the bodies OF SO
many gallant men who died in u battied
search for the Open Polar sea. Soon others
will now either be added to them in like
quest, or perhaps the problem will be forever
solved, and no part of the earth's surface re
main any longer in that obscurity which,
ever since the creation Of the world, has in
vested its fastnesses of ice. The number OF
expeditions now seeking passage to the pole
ia, we believe six. Two of these-that of
Captain Hall, and that of Mr.. Pavy which
left San Francisco in the early summer
are American; one is Swedish, under Pro
fessOr NOrdenskiold. and one is Austrian,
under Pever and Weyprecht.
Year: 1872

The horse disease has made its appearance in San Francisco. The veterinary surgeons say that there are only few cases, and they hope the disease vii not become an epidemic. The City Board of Health have taken the matter in hand and appointed a committee composed of Drs. Shorb and McNulty, to confer with the Health Committee of the Board of Supervisors with regard to the dis ease, and if necessary, to take steps for the prevention of its spread.
Year: 1872

An Army officer says the land along the Northern Pacific Railroad is worth one mill per thousand square miles, provided it is never taxed. Still, the MINER would like to purchase few thousand square miles, at this price.
Year: 1872

Drink nothing without seeing ii 4;
sign nothing without reading it; and
make sure that it means no more than
it says.


Don't go to law unless YOU have moth
ing to lose ; lawyers houses are built
on fools heads.


Put no dependence on the label of II
bag. and count money after your own
kind.


I'm any business, never wade into
water where You cannot see the bottom.


See the sack open before YOU buy
what is i'll it, for he who trades i'll the
dark asks to be cheated.


Keep clear of man who does not
value his own character.


Value the friendship of him who
stands by You in the storm swarms of
insects will surround you i'll the sun
shine.
Year: 1872

RAILROAD MONOPOLIES.-Th Thought


full people have for some time seen and
commented on the dangers threatening
the country from the growing dlmen-
sions and power of our great railroad
corporations. But perhaps the evil will
to some extent work its own cure
Some of these corporations are already
getting 50 big that nobody can stand
the work of managing them, and there
must be some limit of consolidation. j.
Edgar Thompson, president of the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad, has just gone to
Europe, all broken down by his labors
Year: 1872

THE SECRET OF CAPTIvATIoN.-Fea-
lures of Grecian mould, well turned neck
and beautifully rounded arms, are no doubt
very nice things to have, and ladies who
possess these charms have reason to be
thankful to Mother Nature yet, after all,
the most captivating of all womanly charms
is pure, fresh and brilliant complexion.
This superlative fascination any lady may
secure by using Hagans Magnolia Balm,
the standard beautifying preparation of the
present age 1t differs from all ordinary
cosmetics in three most essential particu-
lars, inasmuch as it contains no injurious
ingredients, does not contract and shrivel
the skin as all astringent blooms, - 10.
tions'' and powders eventually do, but
produces lasting loveliness by improving
the health of the skin Under it's opera
ton the texture of the epidermis becomes
finer, and the surface soft as velvet and
smooth as porcelain Features cannot be
changed, but compilations can, and it is
quite certain that lady with no other
charm than a fresh and rosy complexion,
will attract more admiration in company
than her neighbor with classic face but a
sallow skin,
Year: 1872

GEyERALLy the crop prospect in this
section is good Wheat and oats lock
well; corn is hardly mcntionable yet,
but is coming up nicely. Some fears
are entertained, however, that the chinch
bug will devastate the fields. In the
northern and eastern parts of the County
we hear these bugs have already mnde
their appearance in considerable force
aad are doing some damage From all
sides come reports that potato bugs are
still about, though not so numerous as
heretofore. and it is thought that no very
serious damage will be done by them.
Year: 1872

lloN. j. ALLEN BARBER has our thanks
for bound volumes Of the Congressional
Globe, and also for other valuable public
documents notwithstanding the little
tlings Of the Democrats Mr.. BARBER has
won the respect of his constituents by
his manly course in Congress, and will
undoubtedly be returned if he desires,
by handsome majority


Senators Howe and CARPENTER have
also laid us under obligations for favors
in the way of documents. Here we think
it not out OF place to remark hat no
state in the Union is more ably and
faithfully represented in the Senate than
is Wisconsin (Which nobody can deny
Year: 1872

The Boston Journal calls the Liberal
movement snot harmless marsupial,
but y full-blown ophidian of the Cop
per-head variety" According to that
Liberalism must be even worse
thing down east than it is out wcst.--
Here it isn't 20 long wordedly bad as
that.
Year: 1872

Dry Goods 81 900 worth at NJ Msyo's, | will
sell my entire stock at New York cost prices
for cash, must be sold before the lst OF July
next, es intstd going into other business


Come every one and buy all the Dry
Goods you will want for year as it will pay
YOU. NV stock IS new and complete A
bargain for any one wanting to buy the
stock complete. q. E. MAYO.
Year: 1872

sciAtics is pain beginning at the hip,
and follows the course of the scistic nerve,
and is generally purely neurAlgic or ner-
vous pain. To cure, use Renne's Pain
Killing Magic Oil on the painful parts, and
also in the hollow of the foot If the blood
be in a low state, preparation of iron must
be given at the same time-but the Magic
Oil alone generally cures.
Year: 1872

Men of business, believe me, there
is now and then profitable venture
in doing nothing at all. In the pow
er to put business aside, and abiding
now and then in a perfect quiet,
things sometimes solve themselves,
when we give them that advantage,
which refuse to come clear for sill our
trying. We sill know how, by sim.
ply taking some perplexity into the
deepest silence this side of death-a
good nights sleep-we can do better
sometimes than if we sat up and
wrought at our task all night When
Matthew Murray, of Leeds, wanted
to see mis- way through some sore
perplexity in his inventions, and all
other effort was of no use, he rested
day and night from all noise, and all
effort save the effort an active man
has to keep himself quiet; and then
the thing he wanted would steal in
and look at him, and light on him,
and stay, rs birds used to light on
the old hermlts, no more AIraid OF
them than OF the trees under which
they sat. And mothers. you may
care and toll incesslntly for your lit
tie ones, never resting moment in
your devotion, aud then because you
never do quiet, but enter into your
very closet with little frock to mend,
you shall never be quite able to take
the whole sunlight and sum OF your
motherhood into your heart You
will be so full of care about the bread
that perishes as to miss the bread
that cometh down from heaven. No
person in the world needs so much,
now and then, to be still, and open
her soul only to the silence as sn
earnest energetic, whole-hearted
mother. This eternal activity is al
most sure to run at last In shadows.
Robert Collier, ia Ladepepds1at
Year: 1872

A horse car conductor in this city
got his ticket-ofleaye in this manner
At night, when he had finished his
trips. he began counting his money,
not knowing that the Superintendent
was looking through a crack in the
wall. This is the way the conductor
began to count: "There's a dollar
for the road, and here's a dollar for
me,n aud so on to the end OF his for
ty dollars or more. He found to his
surprise that there was an odd fifty
cent scrip which he had no change
to divide. Finally he concluded to
toss up q cent, and see whether be
should have it or the road. This
disappointed the conductor, 50 ht
thought he would give himself an
other chance and on tossing up be
won, and put the scrip in his pocket
with a deal of satisfaction. The
next day the Superintendent called
the conductor to nlm and told him ht
had better get his pay and leave.


"Why,n said the conductor, "Eha
have l done?'


"My friend,' said the Superinten
dent, "the trouble is, think tn
road ought to have had one NOR
chance in that half dollar last night.
Year: 1872

The Republican party was born OF
the spirit OF progress and reform
Its lie has been a continuous hercu-
lesn victorious combat with evil and
error. In our impotence we are often
unjust, forgetting that neither men
nor parties can well do more than one
thing at time. The labors of the
Republican party have required all its
energies to accomplish, one by one,
one after another: To arrest the ex-
tension of Slavery; to defend the Un-
ion sgainst Rebellion; to abolish slav.
cry; TO reconstruct the rebel States;
to establish liberty and equality be
fore the law; to restore peace and
tranquility; to secure the acceptance
by all the OF the changes made neces'
ssry by the war; 10 compose oul
differences with foreign powers.


All these are now accomplished
some are yet warm from our hands
what a grand series Of achievements
History contains nothing like it; ye
Republicans good men and true, com
plain, and some of them leave US anC
oppose Us, because we have not dom
more. They are impatient for reform
we have inaugerated the reforms the
demand, and trust we shall prose
cute them to completion.
Year: 1872

The body Of the opposition is that
old, degenerate party, which now puz
zies statesmen with the question
whether it is dead or alive. We
know that it has been long dead in
trespsss and sin, in slavery and re-
bellion. We hope it has risen again in
liberty and loyalty, bu. would it moi
be well to wait until it shall have put
on some new form, assumed new feat
ures, and manifested a new charac. er
by ''fIuits meet Tor repentance" be-
fore We assign to it the sacred task ol
publication
Year: 1872




we have seen what is not familiar IN
politics. party voluntarily fer.
retIug out defalcations and crimes
of its own members, and bringing the
guilty to trial and punishment-but
the most effective remedy is with the
people and in the ballot.


Pending the Presidential contest,
under cover OF the federation incident
to such a crisis, bad men take cour.
sge, seize party machinery and use
their ill-gotten gains to get more
Tney appear in convention and be.
come candidates for office. The Ma
tional tide may carry such men
through, but it is hoped that the
people will distinguish between the
good cause and the bad men who
betray it; and show by their votes
they can defeat dishonest candidates
without abandoning their principle
However this may be now, the timt
cometh when parties will no longer
venture to place before the people
men who are notoriously unworthy
of confidence


The Republican party. has takel
hold of all these reforms, promislD.
to prosecute them to completion. /
is the organ, and has hitherto beel
the unfailing instrument Of the popu
lar will. Let Us adhere to it, ant
fight the good fight in its ranks. !
will be time enough to try other or
ganizstions when our party shall hav
been proven incompetent or unfaith
full.


After the Presidential election th
people and the press will renew thos
issues which are now swallowed u
!! in the one great question. Who shal
.. have been determined, the questio
! will be. How shall the Republic b
ruled Tncn if the Republican part
shall fail to meet the expectations G
? the people it will pass rapidly dow
J to its defeat in 1876. But if it sha
prove true to the people and itself
may live and reign for generations
come.


t In considering the fitness Of th
/; opposition for the work Of reform th
= infusion OF Republicans is not fol
# gotten.
Year: 1872

1t is mistake to suppose that the
same rules apply TO cvcrsrccris as to
deciduous trees. The latter may be
set out in the fall or spring as best
suits the convenience. But ever
green's very rarely live if transplanted
in the fall. Nor will they endure
to be moved very early in spring,
like other trees. They are more tender
and less tenacious of life. Many peo-
pie overlooking this fact have trans
planted in early spring and met with
ill success, even when great care has
been taken.


The best time to transplant ever
green's is late in tho spring, just ut or
before the period Of active growth. 1t
is comparatively easy to move them
at that time, say to wards the end of
May, and no other time will answer
as we'll. Another caution is to be
strictly observed, and that is not to
expose their soft and tender roots to
the sun or the drying wind. This is
far more important with crcrgreens
than with other trees. Ten minutes
exposure Ofthc fbrous roots to sun and
wind is almost sure death. Keep them
covered with moss or mating till ready
to set out.--Bosfo, PIoughmtu1.
Year: 1872

Exercise can kill as we'll as cure.
TO be taken advsntageously, it should
be done with Judgment. Sometimes a
particular part ofthc body is too weak
to give it. In such eases only the part
needing it should have it. But there
is one rule which is applicable to all
never go against the instincts. Many
persons have hurried themselves into
the grave by cndcavoring to keep up
when they ought to be in bed and
they do keep up, too, for so long
time, that when they take to their
beds their strength is SO completely
exhausted that the system has no pow
tr to rise, and they fall into Il typhoid
condition and all is lost. When any
thing serious is the matter with do
mcstic animals they court uuictudc
and perfect rest. Sometimes we feel
| indisposcd to exercise from sheer lazi-
ness in all loose conditions of the bow
els, debility, an Instructive desire


to sit down and stay there, is universal.


In most of such cases qaictulc is euro
! But there is one safe cure for all under
all circumstances if every step YOU
| take is with an effort, do not take an-
othcr-go to bed if you feel the better
for Il walk, then walk, but stop short
of great tntiguc.-Ii0NS Jolu2'Ut Of
| ffr,,HL
Year: 1872

But few people now adhere to the old
and barbarous method of frying beef
steak to a crisp. The right way is to
have ready first the heated platter and
the butter, pepper, and salt. The steak
is placed OH gridiron over Il bed of
hot Goals, and turned With knives as
fast as possible, so that the juice may
be retained in the meat. AS soon as
done it should be put on the platter.
seasoned highly, and served immcdi-
ately. Beefsteak is spoiled by squccz-
ing or pounding.
Year: 1872

The following resolutions were drawn
mp by Dean Swift, to be observed when
| come to be old." Not to marry a
young woman. Not to keep young COM
pany unless they desire it. Not to be
peevish, morose or suspicious. Not to
tell the same story over and over to the
same people. Not to be covetous-the
hardest of all to be kept. Not to be
over severe with young people, but to
make allowance for their youthful follies
and weakness. Not to be too free Of ad-
vice, nor trouble any but those who de-
sire it. To desire some good friend to
inform me which of these resolutions
break or neglect, and to reform accord
ingly. Not to talk much, nor Of my
self--very hard again. Not to hearken
to flatterers, nor conceive / can be be-
loved by a young woman. Not to be
positive or opinionative. Not to set up
for observing all these rules, for fear
should observe none. -.
Year: 1872

Different articles of dress possess
moral qualities in different degrees,
which they, unconsciously to the wear
er, impose upon him. No human being
can help being sassy" in jaunty hat,
while the very sassiness is modified
or increased by its inclination. A
smooth silken tile induces caution, but a
man is naturally reckless in what is
termed slouch. A trained dress evokes
not only vanity but hate, but short
dress renders one at peace with all man
kind, inasmuch as the length has inau.
ence. Of course even . short dress
may be so made or decorated as to
awaken the most bitter and revengeful
feelings. 1t is possible to be meek and
lovly in a grand toilet, but il is not
probable. The addition Of cane TO an
ordinary costume brings out speroilious-
ness, and fan distils the very essence
of eoquetry. A stifiy starched collar
calls for dignity, but no human being
would dream of being imposing OF
gazing with silent contempt, Of awing
with a single glance. when ne has only a
wilted rag about his neck.
Year: 1872

held the gig approaching slowly, witt
the other boat in tow. Unable to endur
the terrible suspense, went down int
the cabin. Soon l heard the gig toucl
the ships side, and the mate .givinJ
orders to lower away the chair frsm thu
yard-arm.


Then / thought they had found him
but he must be too feeble to climb th,
ships side. A few moments, and
heard approaching footsteps, and dowr
the stairs was brought, with the assist
ance Of some Of the crew, my visitor for
the fourth time; but now really and
truly in the flesh.


He was supported in the arms or the
mate, but he held on to the hand rail
just as had seen him in the three Wis
ions. His left arm hung loosely at his
side, and was bandaged up just as had
observed on the three occasions of the
specters visits.


We gave him proper refreshment, and
put him TO bed. He gradually revived,
and in few days was able TO tell us his
story. BE had been captain OF large
vessel trading in the Pacific. The crew
had mutinied, and had cast him adrift
in the open beat, with nothing to eat but
a few biscuits which we're thrown into
the boat in derision by one of the mutt
neers.


When these were eaten, he had tried
to exc out life by eating his shoes, and
with water wrung from his clothes after
rain and heavy dews he had quenched
in manner his thirst. When found by
the mate, he lay extended in the bottom
of the boat in death.like swoon, and
owed his recovery, perhaps, chiefly to
the brandy had sent in the gig. m


In few days more we assisted him on
deck. Caspar no sooner saw him than
he few at him, and but for my interfer-
ence would have torn him to pieces. Du-
ring the rest Of the voyage we were
obliged to keep the dog chained up. AS
soon as we secured the boat, the Dol
phin had been put upon her former
course, and now, with fair wind, we
again sped merrily on.


/ now felt satisfied that omens and
signs were sometimes vouchsafed to
mortal men for certain grave reasons,
and, though not superstitious, / still be-
lieve that they are more frequent than ia
usually supposed, As we neared the
port for which we were bound, Captain
Williams (for such was the name of my
visitor) was one day sitting with me in
the cabin, when he asked to see the
chart, as he wished to pick out the spot
where / found him.


/ gave him an entirely new chart, and
he busted himself sharpening a pencil
with which to mark the place where he
had so nearly lost his life. Suddenly /
heard an exclamation from him which he
followed up by saying:


my dear, / am very sorry; but |
have cut my finger, and have dropped
some blood on your new chart, and see
that i have soiled the very spot which /
was going to point out as that where
abouts You found me. But" he added
with little laugh, that will do instead
to mark the place"


! have the two charts now, both Of
them marked exactly alike; one by Cap
tain Williams in the Aesh, accidentally;
the other by Reader, can you tell
whom2
Year: 1872

From the Christian Union.I


The playing of the church organ at
weddings is coming to be one of the fine
arts. First, the guests and spectators
who await the coming Of the bridal par
ty are to be entertained; and this is usu-
ally accomplished by executing dance
music upon the solemn instrument with
that peculiar spasmodic and wheezy ef-
feet which irresistibly brings back the
organ at the American Museum, in the
days of our boyhood, and which fur
nished the Snowman, Artemus Ward,
with the expressive phrase, " to jerk q
tune" We don't think this elaborate
festiveness at all necessary to maintain
the joyful character of the occasion.
One need not play, "Why Should We
Mourn Departing Friends" indeed, but
there is plenty of purely sacred yet
joyous and inspiring music which is at
once appropriate to the purpose and to
the instrument. We know one organist
who, after waiting tedious hour for the
belated bride, revenged himself with Civ
ing to the audience Love Not" with
every variation and on every stop com
bination he could think Of


A lady would not feel thoroughly mar.
ried nowadays unless she were handed
out of church to Meudelssohn's Wedding
March; so that department of our sub
ject needs no fixing. But what shall we
say to the new fashion that is coming
in-borrowed from the bad custom Of
the theatcrs, of following words of pa
thetic or rhetoric effect with low or
chestral accompaniment We have re-
Gently heard, at church wedding the
solemn questioning of the pastor to the
groom and the bride elect, and even his
final benediction, thus set eff with dra-
matte back ground of low music; and we
have been told that one irrepressible on
a high stool, actually supported blush
ing M" while plighting her troth "
to the manly IN" at her side, with the
touching suggestive melody, Am ] not
fondly thine own?"


This all comes of the foolish straining
after effect in weddings, this undue effort
to make things pretty so common nova
days. These things doubtless have their
funny sides; but, to plain common sense,
they are just little disgusting