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Year: 1873

NEEDS FIxING.-The Lewiston and


Shasta Turnpike Road is in very bad
condition for staging on the Lewiston
side of Trinity Mountain. The company
fix their own rates of toll, and there can
be no good excuse for the road being in
bad condition at this time of the year.
Everything indicates that there will be a
great deal of travel in and out of our
county this Summer, and our toll roads
at least should be kept in good order. d
Year: 1873

FIRE.-The residence Of Mr.. David
Taylor of this place, had narrow escape
from destruction by fire last Saturday
afternoon. A hole had burned through
the roof, and several in the lining before
it was discovered, but fortunately hose
and good supply of water was on the
premises, and the flames were soon sub
dued. Being little distance from town,
Mr.. Taylor and his folks succeeded in
getting the fire under control before any
outside assistance arrived. Considering
that high wind prevailed at the time,
he was exceedingly fortunate in saving
the building, and particularly so with so
little damage.
Year: 1873

IRON PIPEs.-Dr. VIM. Ware has a
force Of men now engaged in laying iron
pipe through the streets from which our
people will hereafter draw their water
supply. These will surely be an i'm
provement on the logs which have been
used heretofore, and the occasional burst
ing Of which was source of great ex-
pense to the owner and some little annoy
;ance to parties in the immediate vicinity
of the break. These pipes will Withstand
a great deal more pressure than the logs
would and after they are all down will
furnish greater supply of water and
make it more available in case of fire than
.preyiously.
Year: 1873

A MODEL HoTEL.-We recommend
TO our readers the Redding Hotel, con-
Quoted by Stewart & Gray, as a model
Hotel. We shall not go into particulars,
but if any one reading this will go all
over the premises as we did, we are sure
he will join with us in the opinion that no
better arranged public house is to be found
outside Of the large cities, and but few,
very few, as good. At the Redding Ho-
tel you will find the best fare the market
affords, comfortable lodgings, and Bob
Stewart will do all landlord can to make
you feel at home.
Year: 1873

PAYING Bio. - We learn that Jos.
McGilivray made another cleanup in
his Trinity river claim, last week with
results which proved very satisfactory.
Nc is now fixed so that he can run off a
large quantity of dirt and nothing else is
required in this county to make claims
Year: 1873

BEEN AND DONE IT. Our old friend
Jesse Cruthis went below about two weeks
ago under rather suspicious circumstances
which were fully realized when he re-
turned last Friday with a companion for
life. Next
Year: 1873

POSTAL CARDS. - Postmaster Hart
mann has received quantity of the new
Postal Cards, and will furnish them to
all who wish to use this cheap mode of
communication. They are neatly gotten
up and certain to become popular.
Year: 1873

vIyANTED-BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, BOARD


w In private family or where there are but few
other boarders between Fourteenth ana Thirty
eighth streets sixth and Ninth avenues; breakfast a


dinner at 80; grate fire; price about SIS per week.
Address RAILROAD, box la Herald Uptown Branch
Year: 1873

Bat calamity almost as distressing
threatens the ''old a'td respectable" sup
porters of the MoEnerr government. An
extra session Of fifteen days is threatened,
as il the gratuitous support Of the SO called
Legislature for the past eighty days had
not been heavy enough tax. After this.
the smallpox.
Year: 1873

Now i> the time to make preparations
for building stalls for stock. Il should not


he neglected until cold weather. as the an
lmal> will frequently need protection dur
ing The cold and stormy nights of autumn.
stalls should be wide enough to admit Of
the animals turning IN them. the sides
closely boarded up. the floor raised seven
or eight inches above that of the passage
way in the rear. with an outward pitch of
about three inches in the length of the
stall. the entrance If each closed with two
leired folding doors opening inward.


lnere need be no rings. Stanchions. oranv
tying or fastening by the head. No animal
not absolutely a fool will ever stand with
head down hill. A> all the bovine animals
have their itclieS and inconveniences To al
tend 10 a> well as ourselves. and would be
better for the Use OF their tongue. with
which they can reach nearly every part of
their bodies. this freedom Of the stall seems
10 be common sense arrangement. be-
sides providing comfortable quarters in all
cold. stormy weather. The stalls need
not he expensive. being all made of rough
with sufficient opening above
the folding doors to afford free ventilation.
Year: 1873

Don't try to quench your sorrow in
ium or narcotics when in trouble. If
you begin this you must keep right on
with it, till it leads you to ruin; or if
you try to pause you must add physical
pain and the consciousness of degreda-
tion to the sorrow you seek to escape.
OF all wretched men his condition is the
most pitiful who, having sought TO drown
his grief in drink, awakes from his de-
bauch with shattered nerves, aching
head, and depressed mind, to face the
same trouble again. That which was at
first painful to contemplate will, after
drink, seem unbearable Ten to one the
fatal drink will be again and again
sought, till its victim sinks hopeless,
pitiful wreck.


Work is your true remedy. | mis-
fortune hits you hard, you hit something
else hard pitch into something with a
will. There's nothing like good, solid,
absorbing, exhausting work to cure trou-
bic. If you have met with losses, you
don't want to lie awake thinking about
them. You want sleep, calm, sound
sleep, and eat your dinner with an appe-
tite. But you can't unless you work. If
you say you can't work, and go loafng
all day to tell Dick and Harry of your
woes, you'll lie awake and keep your
wife awake by tossing, spoil your temper
and your own breakfast the next morn
ing, and begin tomorrow feeling ten
times worse than you do to-day.


There are some great troubles that on
ly time can heal, and perhaps some that
can never be healed at all but all can
be helped by the great panacca-work.
Try it, you who are afflicted. 1t is not
patent medicine. 1t has proved its eff.
ficacy since first Adam and Eve left be.
hind them with weeping their beautiful
Eden. 1t is an efficient remedy. All
good physicians in regular standing pre-
scribe it IN cases of mental and moral
disease. 1t operates kindly as well, leav-
ing no disagreeable sequelg, and we as-
sure you that we have taken a large
quantity of it with most beneficial effects.
1t will cure more complaints than any
nostrum in the materia medica, and
comes nearer to being " cure-alr' than
any drugs in the market And it will
not sicken you, if you do not take il
sugar-coated. Rural Neao Yorker
Year: 1873

READY FOR CoMPANY.-So far from
its being necessary to be always ready
for company, says Gail Hamilton, it is
one of the pleasures of housekeeping to
prepare for company. Sweeping and
dusting are but little drudgery when
cleanliness is the only object but how
pleasant it is TO tidy the rooms when a
houseful of guests are coming at the end
of it There is an incentive worthy of
toil-that transmutes toll into delight.
But suppose you have been i'll, the chill
dren have had scarlet fever, or Nora has
gone and there is a chance for a visit
from friend. Must you send her away?
Yes, if you absolutely cannot undertake
the slight addition to your work which
her visit necessitates that you should 60
through house cleaning previous to her
appearance. Suppose the doors are fin
ger-marked, and the windows not fault
lessly clean, and the guest chamber has
not been swept for month, the doors
will open, and the windows will let in the
beautiful fresh air, and your friends can
get immense draughts of satisfaction out
of the visit, though things are not as
you would gladly have them, if you will
only not fret about them, but consign
them to the insignificance they merit.
We are afraid of each other forgetting
that our friends have the same kind of
experience thatwe have. The most tho
rough housekeeper is sometimes forced to
let things co." unless she sacrifices
something of more Importance than
things" Serena is distressed because
the afternoon sun reveals to her respon-
sible eyes little dust under the sofa.
But Celestia is equally distressed because
her student lamp suddenly goes out dur
ing Serena's evening call. Why should
not both comfort themselves with the re-
Election that nothing has happened unto
them but such ss is common unto wom-
en-, and dismiss their apprehensions /
know man who came near bleeding to
death because their was not cobweb to
be found in the house or barn to staunch
the blood. Be advised, dear bouse-moth-
er, and do not lose all the freshness and
impulse to be found in your friends Wis
it because you have notime to gothrough
the house with your broom upside
down.
Year: 1873

ANECDoTE OF GENERAL JACKSON
Men of the highest repute and of the
incest sense of honor get their notions of
right and wrong sadly confused under
the temptations of the race-course. A
more chivalric, high-toned, and gallant
gentleman than General jackson did
not live among his contemporaries. And
yet a story was current in Tennessee
some fifty years ago-whether true or
false am not able so say-which goes to
show that even he was shrewdly suspect
ed of playing his game with the ad-
vantages," in the dainty phraseology of
sporting The story ran in this
wise:


The general became discontented with
a mulatto boy, who had been his favorite
rider, and sold him to neighbor. who
was his great rival ON the turf. The boy
was to ride in very important race
against favorite horse of the genreaPs.
jackson had heavy bet pending on
the race, and he was overheard remon-
strating with his late rider. You black
rascal, mind what you are about None
of your old tricks with me. Ii l catch
you squirting your tobacco juice in my
boys eyes I'll cut your heart out r


This may have been pure iabriea-
ton; but if sharp practice on the turf
had not been the rule rather than the
exception, an anecdote of this descrip.
tion could not have obtained currency
as applied to General Jackson.
Year: 1873

The first Sunday in the new house is a
notable day. There is an entire absence
OF old land marks, and strange, weird
newness on everything, and you cant
find your shaving soap. You start for
seuttle of coal, but you don't see the
scuttle. 1t is in the bottom of n barrel
in the garret. You take the dripping
pan. When you change your shirt you
look for it first. 1t is in one Of the bu-
reau drawers, which are piled upon an
other in the parior, and you find you
have got to lift half ton of carpets and
feather,beds before you can get down to
the drawers. After you have lifted them
down and searched them through, it is
remembered by your wife that the de-
sired garment is in one of the barrels
the one in the shed, she thinks, although
1t may be the one in the garret, and yet
it would be just like the stupid carman
to have carried that barrel down-cellar.
A bed-quilt comes out first, then a pie
tin, next a piece of cold ham, neatly
done up in your vest and packed away
in the missing scuttle.


Below is an assortment of iron ware
and length of stove-pipe, a half loaf
of bread, couple of towels, and roll
ing-pin. You begin to expect you will
eventually come upon coal-mine, and
perhaps some dead friend. Then you go
down in that barrel again, and come up
with a pleasing assortment of stockings
and half emptied medicine bottles. The
way you come up this time leads you to
consider the barrel itself. 1t has caught
in the back of your vest, and made the
cloth let GO; it took off one-half of one
sleeve, and created a sensation on the
back of your hand as if bonfire had
ragged there. 1t is quite evident the coop
er who built that barrel was called away
before he commenced to elinch the nails.
You involuntarily grasp the rollingpin
and look around as if you had expected
to see him. Then you call the girl to
re-pack the barrel, and start up stairs TO
look after something that is easier to find,
but finally change your mind, and pass
the balance of the day in digging carpet
tacks and worthless wood from the palms
of your feet, and concocting lies about
the wealth of your uncle and the moon
looks through the window at night, and
touches up with blow of FURNISHED sill
yer several lengths of stove pipe, half
dozen odd chairs, sheet of dingy zinc,
and barrel with bed-quilts foaming
over the top.-Danbnry Neacs.
Year: 1873

VERY ABsENT-MINDED.- Some of
the papers are telling story about an
absent-minded man who invited party
to his house to dinner. Just before their
arrival he went up stairs to change his
dress. He forgot all about them, thought
it was bedtime, and got into bed. A
servant who entered his room to tell him
his guests were waiting for him found
him fast asleep. We know of man
who is more absent-minded than that.
1t is Byng. He is so absent-minded that
he mistook the hired girl for his wife,
the other morning, in the entry, and
kissed her earnestly several times. His
wife is also remarkable for her absence
of mind. And when she observed Byng,
she suddenly dropped the coal-scuttle
from the second story on his bead, and
then slid down the banister at the rate
of mile minute, and lighted among
the hired girls chignon, which she dis
helved with the fire shovel before she
remembered where she was. These phe-
nomena Of the human soul are particu-
larly Interesting to the scientific observ-
er-more interesting, indeed, then they
are to Byng, whose forehead wears a
scar into which the edge OF the seuttle
hts with surprising exactness.
Year: 1873

There is no course that is worth q
mans while to pursue which does not
make him happy. The reason men pur-
sue courses that are wrong, is that they
believe they will reap greater pleasure.
And if you could show them these
wrong courses in men make them, not
happy, but wretched, their example
would be disarmed of half of its mis-
chief.


l Iverily believe that men who prosper
by wickedness lose their capacity of en-
joyment, so that there are thousands and
thousands of overswolen prosperous men
who are not one tenth as happy as the
men VINO have lost nothing. Why, there
are working men in yonder city with
such pitiful stipends that they can scarce
ly make the ends meet, who are vet a
great deal happier than the millionaire
whom they serve. There are men that
have gone through the prosperity OF
what is called secular things in this
world, who look out enviously, and some.
times almost sadly, upon the swart la.
borer, and say, Oh if / had no more
anxiety than he has if l could whistle
and sing as he does; if | had his lung.
and such arms as be has if | were a,
happy as he is, | think | would be will
ing 10 give up all my wealth." Oh th.
heart-aching cases, the rust and biting
theenvies and jealousies, the Competition.
and rivalries, the attributions, Of a Iii.
keyed in the lower range of the human
faculties These miseries belong to such
men and if you could look into then
yOu would not be deceived, nor seduced
nor persuaded to take their nIare
Year: 1873

A chap given to statistics, estimated
that over two thousand toes were frozen
during the past winter By young ladies
keeping their beanx lingering at the
gate instead of asking them into the
parlor.
Year: 1873

FEVER AND AGUE CURED By A VIRGINIA
LADY.-A Richmond correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial writes as fol-
lows: This is the season of the year for
chils and fever, and nearly all who re-
side on the low grounds of James river,
or live in those portions of the city which
border Immediately upon the river or
canal, are shaking and quaking, or burn
ing and aching with the dreadful disease.
Quinine is household necessity, but il
often fails to cure. When it and all the
doctors remedies prove fruitless, the
people about here know, or at least be-
lieve, that there is one thing that they
can do which will infallibly restore and
again set the "blue blood" coursing
through their veins in healthful streams.
A maiden lady, sister of one of the
heads of the departments of the City
Government, possesses the power of in
stantly aud permanently relieving all of
those who come into her presence when
the chill is upon them. All she has to
do is to look upon the poor shivering
and tormented subject, and at once the
chill leaves him, never to return. She
works her miracles without mystery. no
dark rooms, uncertain light, no burning
incense, no cantation scenes, are neces.
sary for the performance of the wonders
that has made her name famous and CIV
en- comfort and strength to hundreds and
thousands Of poor ague stricken mortals.
She will receive no reward. present, or
compensation of any kind, believing
that il she were to do so the magical
power she possessed would depart.
Thousands have come to her, many of
them travelling long distances to do so,
and in every reported case the person
afflicted has been cured. Now, know
your readers will be inclined to believe
that We are poor, ignorant and deluded
lot to have faith in such a marvellous and
seemingly impossible thing, but vet we
do believe-at least those who have been
beneath the spell" and know its re-
markable effect, do; many have visited
this lady utterly incredulous, and have
been cured and converted. OF her pow.
er over this particular disease | enter
tain no doubt. I conld easily get the
testimony of hundred persons who
would declare upon oath that they tried
every remedy before they approached
her, but after once coming face to face
with her, the malady vanished. The
lady herself does not know the source of
her power, but believes that it descends
10 her from her father, who, in his day,
himself wrought many such strange |
cures.
Year: 1873

A MIND READER. young man named
Brown is puzzling the people Chicago
by his success as a mind reader. The
dlscovery-of his powers was made acci.
dcntally about eight years ago, when he
was mere boy. A playfellow casually
touched his forehead, causing sparks to
emit therefrom, and producing sensa-
tonS which first led him to feel that he
was able to read the thoughts of others.
The first. pubic exhibition of young
Browns powers as mind reader was
given in the Union Park Congregational
Church in Chicago. The first test was
that Of finding an article hidden outside
of the room. Young Brown took the left
hand of the gentleman who had hidden
1t, placed the right hand on his forehead,
letting 1t rest there few minutes. Then
he took the gentleman right hand and
held 1t to his own forehead. Pausinc a
moment he led the gentleman rapidly
out OF the back door of the church. He
soon returned, his companion twirling
small locket in his hand, which he had
hidden IN the basement. Though blind
folded, Brown had led him to the hiding
place as straight as he could have gone
himself, Then he led a gentleman to the
chandelier of which he was thinking,
then found silver quarter hidden under
table, and wound up the first series OF
tests by pulling a watch key ont of the
testers mouth. Afterward he spelled
ont on an alphabet placed on the wall
the names of places in the minds of two
gentlemen, and finally located pain in
man 5 head by putting his hand on the
exact spot where the trouble lay. Mr..
Kelly, young Browns mentor, said his
protege's powers were like that Of a mag
net IN that they were stronger in cold
weather and increased in strength the
more they were exercised. He added
that persons whose left arms were brok-
en- or who were partially intoxicated
could not have their minds read.
Year: 1873

suiting from the panic has occurred in
San Francisco; here there has been no
alarm no run upon any bank, no dis.
euroance OF the ordinary course Of bust


ness. This happy immunity from the
purturbations OF the panic we owe TO our
sound and wholesome financial system


oaseu upon currency representing
intrinsic value.-[ San Francisco News
Letter.
Year: 1873

An EXPERIENCED AND STYLISH CUTTER Is
II willing 10 make an engagement to cut patterns
clothing youths and City,
Southern Western trade Patterns any desirable
size application Address CUTTER, box l70 Herald
Office, for ten days.
Year: 1873

rT,O TRAvELLERe.-A SILK IMPORTER WILL GIVE
line OF samples on commission 10 first class party
travelling Tar West South selling other dry goods
dress goods preferred commission only actual sales
dress no 81
Year: 1873

corrected proofs, passing between authors and


publishers, and excepting also correspondence


or postal cards on all printed matter which


is so marked as to convey any other or further
information than is conveyed by the original
print, except the correction of mere typo
graphical errors; on all matter which is sent in


violation of law or of the regulations of the
department respecting inclosure; on all matter
to which no specific rate of postage is assigned
the postage shall be charged at rate of not
over two cents for each half ounce or fraction
thereof and this provision shall include all
letters commonly known as drop, or local,
letters delivered through the post Office or
their carriers, and magazine, manuscripts and
newspaper manuscripts are hereby declared to
belong to the third class of mailable matter.


Sec. g. That from and after the first day of
January next, under such regulations and in
such manner as the Postmaster General shall
prescribe, the postage provided by law to be
paid upon printed matter or mailable matter
of the second class shall in all cases be pre-
paid and collected at the offices respectively
where such matter shall be mailed; and the
postage on daily newspapers not exceeding
FOUR ounces each copy i'll weight, shall be
charged and collected at the rate of fifteen
cents per quarter; provided that weekly news
papers within their respective counties where |
the same are printed and published, and none
other, may pass through the mails free of
postage as provided in the 8th clause of sec
tion 184 of the act to revise, consolidate and |
amend statutes relating to Postoffice Depart |
ment.


Section provides penalties for embezzling, |
secreting or destroying matter. The House |
then went into a committee on the whole to |
consider the Army Appropriation bill of $31-
81, 953, and after same discussion was adopted. |