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Year: 1873

HARVEST YIELD.-We are informed from the
best authority that the harvest Of small grain in
the western part of Placer this year, win average,
iat the lowest estimate, about fifteen bushels to
the acre. This does not seem much of yield
but from whatwe know of grain growing in Cali
fornia, and considering the season has been so
very dry, and that much of the grain was sown
quite late, we call it a good average. If every
county in the State has done as well by five
bushels to the acre, there will be an abundance
OF grain, and at present prices. provided too
much is not consumed in transportation, the
farmers will escape the recently threatened fail
ure without serious losses.
Year: 1873

UNsErTLED.-A few days ago two of our
townsmcn, both usually quiet and respectable
citizens, got into dispute regarding the title Of
small piece of ground. The usual mode Of
reasoning of either seemed to be unconvincing
to the other, and each being determined that
his arguments should be entertained by his ad-
versary the club and shovel mode of impressng
ideas on the brain was resorted to, but before
any serious impressions were made, officer Lin
egar nterfered, and at last accounts the matter
remained unsettled
Year: 1873

AUBURN, PoTAToEs. the present week
Dir. J ..R. Crandall furnished our family very
superior ict'of EarlyIRose potatoes, grown at
his place, in 6uSurn. Many people here, and
ourselves among the number, have labored un
Ger the impression that this section of our
county was not adapted to the growth and yield
'of choice potatoes, ,'but the Doctor has caused
That false impression to vanish from our mind
by showing us the fine yield and splendid Early
IRose potatoes he has produced right here in
Auburn. These potatoes far excel anything that
can be found in our stores, no matter from what
section of the country they may come.
Year: 1873

A murder was committed at Cold
water, Miss. DR.. Ritchie, citizen of
a neig ghboring town, n local paper says,
was on little spree, and the murder ut
Coldwatcr being fresh in his mind, he
accused every one he met, in a jocular
way, of being the man who had COM
mitted the murder. Finally he met a
stranger, and being just tipsy enough
not to care whom he accosted or what
he said, he addressed the stronger in
the same manner "Yes-you-you are
the man who murdered johnson at
Coldwater" A look of guilt overspread
the mans face, and simultaneously he
ran his hand in his bosom as if to draw
a weapon. DR.. Ritchie, observing the
movement, collared him with his left
hand, and with his right drew dirk
from his pocket, and holding it threat
eningly above him, told him if he at
tempted to draw n weapon he would
plunge that knife to his heart in n Sec
ond. He then commanded the man to
withdraw his hand from his bosom,
which command was speedily obeyed,
when, instead of q weapon, the man
drew out the sum of s1,1OO, which he
dropped on the ground at his feet, and
which had been taken from the body of
the murdered man. Meanwhile a crowd
had gathered around the doctor and his
prisoner, and the evidence Of the mans
guilt was by this time so palpnble that
he was declared to be under arrest and
securely tied.
Year: 1873

The visitor Of Texas is astonished
when he finds many of the chief articles
in the sustenance of life lacking their
places Upon the table--articles which
should be more plentiful here than in
any other region Of the country on the
globe. And Just here is where the
quiet, sedate, formal Major D, of
Kansas City, MET with the most bitter
disappointment in his southern trip.
The Major is exceedingly fond Of milk.
Immediately upon entering Texas soil
at our first dinner, the Major looked
anxiously about the table for some evil
dence of the presence Of his love. His
reconnoitre was painful one. There
was no milk nor any evidence OF its
presence to be found.


Waiter, bring me glass Of milk"


1--WE have none, sir."


Whatw


In blank horror the waiter wilted be-
fore the thunder tones of that exclama-
tion.


"What!" again roared the Major.
"Can it be possible that you have no
milk?"


"I assure you, not drop, SIR"


"Then I'll find some in another
house." So saying, he grasped his hat
and hurried out of the room.


Before we had finished our dinner,
however, Major D returned, al
most out of breath, twinkle in his eye
and Joy beaming out boldly over his
broad face.


Eureka" eurekap and he placed on
the table by his plate pint of milkish
liquid. A good eye at once saw that it
was not pure milk, that thin white yel-
low substance. Major D--thought
he had the genuine article. The liquid
was drank, however, and then the Major
discovered that it was of an inferior
quality of condensed milk.


els it possible" he afterward re.
marked to Texan, els it possible that
with thousands of cattle grazing on
your hills you have no milk, and with
the most magnificent grass country IN
the world, and your prairies every
where covered with good cows, that you
make no butter ?"


~ Yet such is the fact. Nearly every
pound of butter consumed in Texas is
imported, and all the milk to be had
there comes in the form of condensed
article from the Northern States. With
all the facilities for products of the soil
necessary for hay raising, yet Texas
buys nine-tenths of her bacon, hams
and lard from her Northern sister
States. With a soil unsurpassed for
corn, oats and wheat, the greater part
of these products are imported. The
chief staple of Texas soil is cotton, and
to that product farmers devote their
time to the detriment of everything
else. Time and immigration however
will produce a great change in that re,
spect rs we'll as others. Keen energetic
farmers will discover that all the neces-
sites of life can be produced on their
plantations without neglecting their
great staple, cotton.


1t will be q glorious day for Texas
when such a state Of things is inaugur-
ated. For even rs it is now the exports
of the State for the year 1870 exceeded
its imports in the sum of 100000 gold.
-Ransas city Times.
Year: 1873

FALSE PR1DE.-No honest occupation
is SO disreputable rs habitual idleness.
Yet there are many young ladies who
choose to think so. There are very
many girls Of limited means, in large
cities, who would gladly employ their
leisure hours in some way that would
prove remunerative to them, if they
could do so without the fact of their be-
ing thus employed being known out
side their own family circles. Rather
than this, these fastidious girls will
submit to any privations, and pass hours
of each day in listless idleness that
ought and could be put to profitable
use. Another of the results of this
false pride is the fostering of a spirit
of idleness, which almost completely
units them for house duties, and more
especially those which devolve upon
them after marriage. Hence the many
unhappy marriages growing out of q
want of familiarity with household
duties, and a positive disinclination to
perform them.
Year: 1873

AN UNFORTUNATE REsULT.-It is in
teresting to know that the Chinese ar
bitter of the fate of millions the Emper-
or, who, at the age of fifteen has Just
been married, never saw either of his
brides before the day of marriage. He
fancied he saw one-and she was hump
backed-in dream. By some strange
chance q girl so afflicted-but otherwise
of transcendent loveliness-was among
the seven hundred girls from which his
Majesty's brides were selected. The
Empresses whose duty It was to make
the selection knew OF his Majesty's
dream, and fixed on this girl for one OF
his wives: but the poor creature was
killed by the Court surgeons who un-
dertook, by some heroic process, to cure
her deformity. 1t is said the young
man takes the sad Office most seriously
at heart.
Year: 1873

Exc1TED--One may get some concep.
ton of the terrible panic that would
occur in q crowded theatre in case OF
fire, from the scene at q Cincinnati thea
tire lately. During the matinee per-
formance smoke was seen issuing from
the registers, and general rush was
made in all directions. Men jumped
from the gallery to the parquette, wo-
men screamed, and everybody was in
danger of being trodden down and
crushed to death, but had very little
chance of getting out. There proved
to be very little smoke and no fire OF
any consequence, and the audience was
brought to its senses,
Year: 1873

PrcTyREs.-REEs & Go. spare Eo expense In the
getting up of their work. No matter how cheap
they may contract TO make your photograph, their
finish is all the same Cheap and good work is their
,ynfchMnrn.
Year: 1873

,n AN old minister one day asked wo-
man what could be done To indpre ber
husband to attend church. II don't
Know she said, "unless you were to
psa p"a pipe and a Jug Of whiskey in the
Year: 1873




About week ago widow woman
named Gathncr, living in the SiAtll
Ward. met male acquaintance ON Ora
tiot street, and complained TO him tba;
she was out of -four aud wood, and al
most discouraged. lie told her that she
ought to mary again. Ill sell YOU at
auction he continued, ''and well put
in Il proviso that the highest bidder
shall court you for week in order that
you may know him. The woman
laughingly consented. and the man
mounted box and began crying out.
n crowd assembled and he stated the
facts in the case. saying that he had
known her for years. Knew hei 10 be
industrious and Of good character, and
then he opened the sale. Bidding was
lively and every body in good humor.
In the crowd was an old bachelor
named Peter ID. Joslin. boarding OH Ma
pie street, and he was the only one who
took the joke as real fact. He jumped
the bidding from forty-three cents TO
five dollars. and then raised it TO eight
dollars. The auctioneer cried sslast calf
on that figure, and the widow was
knocked down. Joslin handed her the
money, agreed to the proviso. and then.
treated the whole crowd, none of whom
had thought marriage would ever take.
place. One did. however, take place
Yesterday morning. after the terms of
the proviso had been faithfully carried
out. And while it is quite certain that
Joslin has found good helpmeet, the
bridegroom's friends say that he is So
Der, steady, good-tempered and well of.
Year: 1873

LOvE.-Love is n thing that people
like to talk about; but people who love
a good deal don't talk much about it.
Love is like an apple pudding, however
good it may be, it cannot be Telished un-
til tasted, and then you want more of it.
Love is like 4 good many things: it is
like a brooklet seeking the river, if you
stop it in its course, it'll run over and
get there anyway; 1t is like beeswax, if
you warm it, it'll get soft and may be
moulded, if it gets cold it will get hard,
but its beeswaX all the same; il is like
the sun, which is just as bright behind
the clouds as when there are none; it is
even like hate, the more you cherish it,
the more you have of it. Love is a
funny thing. Everybody laughs at
everybody else for being in love; il
makes everybody do what no other body
would-that is, they say the wouldn't,
but let them try it. / know a man that
walks six miles every Sunday and Thurs
day night for love, and havn't yet seen
the weather that would keep him back
he loves. Love is q stubborn thing.
You can't make it when it won't. !
once knew man who killed his wife
trying TO make her love him-but she
wouldn't.


They err who say love is blind. 1t sees
faults where no faults are, and virtues
that were never seen by other eyes.
Who has no love should get it, and
having it, show it. 1t is jewel that
cannot be laid away, but must be worn
to be preserved.
Year: 1873

a writer in the The Californian de-
livers Sunday School address, of which
the following passage is an example:
"IOu boys ought to be kind to your
little sisters. L once knew bad boy
who struck his little sister a blow over
the eye. Although she didn't fade and
die in the early summer time, when the
June roses were blowing, with the sweet
words of forgiveness on her pallid lips,
she rose up and hit him over the head
with a rolling pin. So he couldn't
go TO Sunday school for more than \
month, on aecountof not being able tc
put his best hat on"
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, NOV. Is, 1873
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Indeed 1t is true that our nation as a whole are
fearfuly in earnest to wipe out the stain OF blood
and Spanish outrage that is now upon our nag
and yet an attentive listener can hear in every
group some seeoy, tame old craven croaking.
"Don't be hasty, don't be innammatory, don't
force the Spaniards into war with us, but no
slow.n In the name or God have we not gone so
slow during this cuban that nations and
events have not only gone ahead OF Us, but have
leit us where we are, by means the head
but the tail end of honor and respectability
dragging in the dirt OF defiant insult and outrage
deservedly heaped upon us by a nation OF weak
cowardly cuttnroatsY Well, copperheads and
tories are always TO our nation vermin and
maggots TO the sick or wounded hero. God save
cur nations honorl JERSEY
Year: 1873




THE BATTLE of WINCHEsTER.-During
Gen. Sheridan's stay here he was coDvers-
ing with few friends touching his military
experiences and campaigns, when he said:


''There is mighty sight Of romance and a


great many interesting episodes connected


with the war that the historians never got


hold Of For instance. there has been a


great deal said about the battle of Winches-


ter, little affair in which had hand.


Well, it was a pretty square fight, but do


you know that battle was fought on the
strength of information which obtained


from young lady in the town of Wincbes-


ter, and if the rebels had known she was Civ


ing it to be they would have hung her IN


minute? was very anxious to get iniorma-


ii IN of the rebel strength and movements, SO


as to know just when and where to st ike


them, but did not know how TO get it. Fl


nally, I heard of Union young lady in


Winchester who could be relied upon If


could get word to her. Her name was Miss
Wright. think she is in the treasury de
partment at Washington now. But the
trouble was to co,nmun cate with her. One
day heard of an old colored man, living nut-


side os my lines, who had a pass to go into
Winchester to sell vegetables. sent for the
old man, and on talking with him found him
loyal, as all the colored folks were, you know.


Finding he could keep secret, asked him


if he would undertake to deliver letter TO a


young lady in Winchester. The old fellow


said he would so / wrote letter on thin


tissue paper and rolled it up in tin foil. 1t


made ball about as big as the end of your
thumb, and told the man put it in his
mouth and deliver to Miss Wright in Win
chester. He went off, and in about two days


came back with an answer rolled up in a


piece of tin foil. l found had struck \


mighty good lead, and followed it carefully
till got all the information wanted. The
girl gave me more important information
than / got from all other sources, and l
planned the battle of Winchester almost en-
| tirely on what got from her. She was a
| nice girl and true as steel. l.'-Indiandpoti
[ Journal
Year: 1873

IT is an old belief that has passed IN,
10 q proverb that murder will out


TO this in may be added that fraud and
theft will be punished. The case OF
Boss TWEED may thus serve ITO point
moral or adorn tale" Three years
$50 TWEED wss the atuocrat OF "the En-
pire State" The legislature did his
bidding and the city OF New York was
h. own. To-day we have information
Of bis sentence to twelve years imprIss
oument in the Penitentisry OF the
State After this let no one tiud fault
with American courts or talk about
the sale ofjustice. The conviction and
sentence OF TWEED afford proof that
pollical iDhueace and personal chica.
merry can never protect any person from
the consequence Of wrongful acts.
Year: 1873

DONER, Jan. ii, 1913.


The second week Of the present session of
the General Assembly convened at o'clock,
p. NJ, to-day. Indeed, it could be said truth.
fully that the business session of the Legisla-
ture begins to-day, for nothing Of any impor-
tance In legislation transpired last week, and
had it not been for the fact that several fat
Offices were distributed at the beginning of the
session little or no interest would have been
attached to this first week of the Legislature.
As soon as part of the hungry army of Office
seekers were ted, those who were disappoint-
ed, and their name is legion, simply cursed for
awhile and left for their homes and with them
lett all the fuss and interest of the week.


The legislative machinery, it is safe to say,
will not be in complete running order for some
days yet, although it is promised that large
amount of business will be transacted to-mor
row. 1t is evident that the few days vacation
the members have been enjoying have been
improved by those of the House, for nearly all
OF them, during the recess, have prepared one
or more bills, which will be introduced in a
day or two. The great majority of this work,
however, Is of no interest, except, perhaps TO
few individuals who have banded together
with limited amount of capital and propose
to embark in uncertain and, in some instances,
unwhOlesome enterprises.


Members of both Houses talk freer on cer-
tain measures which are, as yet, only propos-
ed, than they did last week. They have evi-
IDENTITY been instructed by their constituency,
and return TO Dover ready to vote on nearly
every question which has been agitatcd by the
press OF this State for the past twelvemonth.
No amount OF argument or persuasion could
possibly effect many of them now or in any
manner cause them to alter their hasty and
in many instances, i'll advised conclusions
They are as hard as adamant and as stubborn
as jackasseS.


The New Castle delegation, which is, as the
readers of the Times are aware, thoroughly
Republican in the House, are preparing ho
shot and damaging she'll with which they pro
pose, at the proper time, to use in aid of sew
eral measures they propose fighting for at this
session. This delegation is made of excellent
material. Mr.. Riddle, young and jealous, viii
keep the Republican banner from trailing iu
the dust, and will doubtless prove II thorn in
the side of the otherwise unanimously Demo
cratic Senate. He has already given notice OF
his intention to introduce several excellent
bills, and will labor for their passage.


Among the important bills introduced last
week were the following: In the House-Mr
hlarls presented memorial asking for provi
sion to educate the colored people of Whining
ton. joel Thompson gave notice Of an act tC
prohibit the sale of liquor on election day and
one by Mr.. Silver prohibiting the attachment
Of wages -Four divorce petitions were also
presented, Mary Pennington, Joshua Marshall
Sarah A. Heritage and Elizabeth w. Goslee
being the petitioners. In the Senate bill
was introduced by DIR. Leslie to amend the
usury law, making the legal rate of interest
not less than six or more than 10 per cent
Year: 1873

ton to the fact that this cruel sport is prohibited bv
law. BY turning 10 section of chapter 81 Of the
Revised Statutes of Delaware. it will be seen that
any person who shall nstituto, or be concerned in,
or shall bet upon any cock fight or shooting match
shall be deemed guilty of mIsdcn,eanor. and shall
be fined thirty dollars. Section ) Of same chapter
also prohibits any person discharging "n gun or
pistol within any town village within this State
within quarter Of mile Of the centre thereof
within one hundred yards Of mill dam upon
which there is public road" and any one guilty OF
violating said section shall be liable to fine Of five
dollars for each offence.
Year: 1873

ARE We BEGINNING TO SEE THE PoINr?-
We publish call in this issue for a public
meeting to be held to morrow evening to take
such action as may lead to the building uD of
the business interests OF this town. In other
words a number of citizens want to start some
mechanical industry among us that will not
only keep at home and support the mechanics
already here, but induce others to come among
us. Our men of means find that our work
ing men are leaving town and going else
where to labor, thus depreciating the rental
value Of property and letting some tenements
even go without an occupant. Merchants find
their trade slackening, and other tradesmen
begin to feel the effects Of the stampede This
state Of affairs exist not especially in Smyrna,
but all through the Peninsula. Mechanics are
going where they can make living" and so
many have gone that property owners not only
begin to see but to feel the effects Of their
absence.


1t is to be hoped that this meeting will really
be one of some vim and effectiveness Let those
who attend It talk business" and not theory
Let those who have means go there and not
merely say how important an industrial enter
prise woull - t1' how muah they will give
towards securing it. The question is, 4" how
much" Unless the meeting does come
squarely up to this point we do not see what
good can be accomplished.


The other day when s2O0e stood as bar to
the establishment Of the Tasker iron works at
New Castle, the town raised the money with
out any flourish of trumpets, and that sleepy
village is wider awake than it has been for
years. A week or so ago, when a number OF
journeymen mechanics of Wilmington were
prospecting for location for cooperative cal
factory, Oxford, Pa, offered all the land they
wanted, to donate 5000, and to loan the
association, for a term of years, $25, 900
Kennett Square offered building and machinery
rent free. Coatesville offered to donate all th,
land needed by the association, and appropriat,
probably as much as $4,000. We will hav,
to talk and act like these towns are doing. II w
want mechanics, as we certainly do, we vii
have TO invest more in mechanical industry AM
less in the paper" of crippled artizans an
unfortunate farmers. Let us follow the ex
ample Of New England and the Wester
States in this respect. Nothing else wi


bring the answer. Nearly all the .heayy men


OF Wilmington are mechanics, and they inves


their capital in the line Of business in whie


they accumulated il. Hence mechanics


industry is lively there aud some of our work
men 90 there 10 get work. We say go; nay
they are driven.