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Year: 1873

Coop REsoLUTIoN-We have careful.
ly read the resolutions Of the Peoples In
dependent Convention which recently met
at Sacramento, and endorse them so far as
they relate to questions of State and Ma
tional policy. II the sentiments enuncia
ted in these resolutions were incorporated
into our local and National governmental
policy, our great Union would again, as in
the days OF yore, receive the homage and
plaudits of free people. and The glory
Of the Republic Of Washington would
again relume the world
Year: 1873

Recently the finishing touch was put to
the work begun more than year and a
half ago at Geneva-the amount of SIS,
SOC, 900 made in favor Of the United States
being ty the representatives of Great Brit,
ain aid into our Treasury. Thus ends an
international dispute Of the gravest magni-
tude, which has been settled in manner
as satisfactory as it is unprecedented iu
the world. September 9 will stand out in
history as day to be marked with white
stone, for on it was consummated the
pesceful adjustment Of difficulty, which,
between any other two nations, would only
have been settled after lotg and bloody
war.
Year: 1873

Get pound of tea.


Aud don't forget to go to Browns drug
store and get eight pounds Of copperas and
a pint Of corabolic acid.


Get dollars worth OF sugar.


Bring dozen lemons.


If you have chance you had bette,
bring buskel of lime.


We ought to have pound of ground
mustard and some ginger.


Get gallon of coal oil and demijohr
of whisky. Be particular and don't gel
them mixed-have the coal oil put into
the can, and the whisky into the demijohn
If you zee nice piece Of calico you
might bring me enogh for . wrapper.


Go to Orynski's and get bottle Of hi.
blackberry syrup.


The -four is out.


Be careful and don't drink any well wa
ter while 10 town.
Be sure and get bottle of Hamlin's
cholera cure.
We ought to have dozen knifes and
forks for the kitchen.


Go to McCleery's and get bottle o.
DR.. McCabe's blackberry brandy.


Don't bring any green thing home te
make the children sick


Don't forget the coal oil and the dem
John, and be sure and keep them seperate


Go to Cheever's and get bottle Of syr
up of blackberry and ginger.


Get pint of cognac brandy.


Keep away from them nasty ponds, un
less they are filed up.


If you see any good disinfectant bring
some home.


Get few pounds Of crackers and rice
and some oatmeal.


If you see the doctor ask him to give
you q prescription to cure cholera.


Be careful and don't break the demiohn
Johnny needs pair of shoe.


You had better call at the drug stores
and see who has the best cholera medicine
Now don't forget any of these things, and
keep the list 10 your hat, where you eau
find it.


Come home early.-Providence Press
Year: 1873

A Menphis girl married recently and
Immediately sold her piano, bought sew
ing machine, and made her husband suit
of clothes and herself two calico dresses,
and now fourteen young men are seeking
sAs hapa ef her psnarrisd sister. =
Year: 1873

.
This base and IN famous wretch says that
his letter addressed to the editor of THE
STATE JOURNAL was substantially as the
above. pronounce it literally a .falsehood.
As to the amende honorable, we had none to
make, he not having given us proof of its
incorrectness. wrote him note offering
to publish certain portions of his letter aOlsich
soere iaofeasive, together with full state
ment of the party from whom derived the
information upon which the article in ques-
ton was based. Further, l informed him
that if he would call at the Office Ihad no
objection to giving him the name of my in
formant. AS to his denunciation l care
nothing. noso assume personal respon-
sibility for the article in question.


Very respectfully,


JAMES P. WOOD,


Local State Journal.
Year: 1873

The real Tichborne will have to pay
SAILS 900 in court expenses to defend him
self from the fraudulent attacks OF the
claimant. A settlement in advance would
have saved him large amout of money
and would have saved the claimant from
prison.
Year: 1873

The letter above is substantially copy
of one addressed by me to the editor Of
THE STATE JOURNAL, with a request
to publish the same with an dn,e,ade in the
columns of his paper. @


AS he has not thought it we'll to do so,
nor shown any inclination to withdraw the
offensive statements contained in his 80
cal" of the 18th instant, take this mode
of denouncing him before the s'public" as
a calumniator of the most audacious and
dangerous type.


t5AEE7s NJNfOTJJy ERSE
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The COmmissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

Sir Humphrey Davy became known to
eminence by his brilliant discoveries in
chemical philosophy; and Renne by using
chemical philosophy to discover Renne' 5
Pain Killing Magic Oil, one of the very
best remedies for pain ever used by man
kind. Try it in the family
Year: 1873

NEITHER Sick NOR WELL The
members of the medical profession are
the recognized guardians of the health
of the community; and yet, strange as it
may seem, the vast ma jority Of cases of de
fcient health do not ordinarily fall under
the notice of the physician. Moreover,
those cases are not only more numerous,
but more important, than such as receive
professional treatment They have great
er influence upon the general average OF
physical comfort, and upon the hygieniC
condition of the public generally, than have
graver disorders. We can see from al
this how desirable it is that we should be
put in possession Of some remedy Tor those
multiplex little ills that cause us. never
| theless, so much wretchedness DR.
Gottlieb Fisch Bitters is such a remedy
By regulating the action of the liver, anC
by stimulating digestion and secretion i
seems to oil afresh the wheels of life ant
to make the bare sense of existence itself
IjOy


This subject continued next week unde


Modern CiUIizatjon.
Year: 1873

The origin of the expression the
"Man in the Moon is unknown, but
the name has from time immemorial
been applied to the dark lines andspots
upon the surface of the moon, which are
visible to the naked eye, and which,
When viewed through good telescope,
are discovered to be the shadows OF
lunar mountains. 1t is one of the most
popular and most ancient superstitions
of the world that these lines and spots
are the figure of n man leaning on fork
on which he carries bundle of thorns
or brushwood, for stealing which on
Sunday he was confined to the moon.
The account given of man who was
stoned to death for gathering sticks on
Sunday, is supposed by some to be the
origin of this belief. Dante supposes
Cain to have been the offender who was
placed eternally in the moon for punish
ment of his crime. Some of the old
poets thought these spots and lines rep
resented the boy Endymion, whose
company the moon loved 80 well that
she carried him constantly with her.
Other ancients thoughtthey represented
a fox.
Year: 1873

Exchanges note that Winstrand, the
Swedish ex-royal secretary, who lives
in Minnesota, has reached height OF
economy Of which Dio Lewis is lgno-
rant. Having read a statement that
Indian corn contains more than four
times as much oily matter as wheat
flower, and that one pound of it, parch-
ed and made into bread, is more than
equal to two pounds of fat meat, the
careful swedeF resolved to test its power.
Mixing corn meal with water, he, with
his own devoted hands, made cake one
inch thick and seven inches in diameter,
which he baked on the Goals in the par
lor stove. A cake OF this size proved to
be more than sufficient for one meal.
Three times day, for weeks, the e1-
perimenter ate nothing else, didn't
want anything else, didn't lose weight,
and was perfectly we'll. He must have
constitution before which even hard
boiled eggs might bow and miRce-pie
blush. To rational people he presents
the argument that it takes one hours
work, besides fencing, to produce half
q bushel Of corn, which is more than
sufficient for ten days for one person /;
it needn't cost anybody more than five
dollars a year. "Rational people" he
declares, twill be more satisfied on that
than on the fare at the best hotels IN
Europe or America" Moreover, he OBJ
served that half an acre will produce
all the vegetables one person will need
for one year, without hard labor that
when the weather is warm it is very
comfortable and healthy to 60 barefoot,
and every comfortable house," large
enough for one person, can be built in
Minnesota for twenty dollars, and al
most anybody can do it for himself.
Therefore nobody need be at q loss
for den wherein to dwell, and fare
SURPRISING that of the best hotels at a
cost of five dollars year.
Year: 1873

. A highly important series of expert
ments have been made by two German
physicians, vogl and Gutenberg, with a
view accurately to determine the physi-
illogical action of tobacco. Their re-
searches had reference first to the action
of those bases of tobacco which are
volatilized at temperature lower than
one hundred and sixty degrees, and
then to those volatilizable between one
hundred and sixty and two hundred
and sixty degrees. 1t was found that
the action of all these bases was identi-
cal with that of nicotine, producing con-
traction of the pupil, labored respira-
tion, commissions, and death. When
taken into the stomach they produce
their effects more speedily than when
simultaneously injected; though even
in the latter case they are not so instan-
taneous as nicotine. The lungs and air
passages of animals experimental upon
were found, on post-mortem examlna-
tion, to be greatly congested.


Messrs. Vogl and Gutenberg attribute
to the pyridine and picoline bases, and
not to nicotine, the painful symptoms
of the novice in smoking, as also the
poisonous effects of tobacco-juice when
swallowed. The fact that stronger to-
bacco can be used in the shape of cigars
than in the pipe, is explained by this,
that there are more of the volatile bases
in the smoke from the latter. Pyridine
is very volatile and stupefying, and
exists in pipe smoke abundantly, while
in cigar smoke but little of it is found,
though collidine is there in considera-
BILE quantity.


In the course of their experiments
the writer's compared the action of these
bases with that of the bases of other
plants used for smoking, dandelion,
willow wood, and stramonium. None
of these, however, except willow wood
contract the pupil. From these results
Messrs. Vogl and Eulenburg conclude
that the different effects of opium smok-
ing are due to difference III the pro-
portion of the bases produced by COM
bustiOn
Year: 1873

A gentleman advertised for boy


assist him in his office, and nearly fifty
applicants presented themselves before
him. Out of the whole number he Sc
lected one and dismissed the rest. i
sbould like to know" said friend,
son what ground you select that boy,
who had not a single recommendation.
"You are mistaken" said the gentle,
man, "he has great many. He wiPed
his feet when he came in and closed the
door after him, showing that he was
careful: gave up his seat instantly to
that lame old man, showing that ne was
kind and thoughtful ; he took OIL his cap
when he came in, and answered my
questions promptly and respectfully,
showing he was polite and gentlemanly;
he picked up the book which hadpur--
posely laid upon the floor, and replaced
Il on the table, while allthe rest stepped
over it or showed it one side; and ne
waited quietly for his turn, instead OF
pushing and crowding, showing that ne
was honest and orderly. When talked
with him noticed that his clothes were
carefully brushed, his hair IN nice or,
der and his teeth as white as milk; and
when he wrote his name noticed that
his finger nails were clean, instead OF
being tipped with jet, like that hand
some little fellow in the blue jacket:
Don't You call these things letters OF
recommendation? / do, and L would
give more for what 1 can tell about q
boy by using my eyes ten minutes, than
all the letters Of recommendation that
he can bring me"
Year: 1873

it home to me now, Amy, and I will not
vex the dearest little wife in the world
again by adding unexpected company to
her household cares"


So Amy lost her grievance, for Oliver
gave her due notice from that time for
ward when he meant to invite a guest
True, it was strong temptation, when
he met his friends, to run the risk and
take them home, but the vision OF
Boyle's bill, and Amy's sacrifice of her
uncle's wedding present, rose before his
eyes, and he gave the invitation for an
other day, or let it pass. For after all,
he found, when the appointed day
came, he cared very little for the e1-
pected pleasure, and would have en-
ioyed quiet dinner and evening with
Amy quite as well as the company OF AN
OCCASIONAL FR1END.-Ledger.
Year: 1873

A party of men, say from three to & dozen, get together and hold frequent meetings, and act according to 8 plan laid down. One or two will find out some copper-plate printer in the employ of the bank note company---in fact all such printers are known by the party. These men will manage to meet one of the printers. Then they offer him from eoO to $50 to procure certain kind of impression. This impression is pro- cured in this wise: The printer will take an impression upon tin feil from the plate from which he is printing, which can be done in & moment. Thus you see every line and size is obtained correctly. From this tin foil an electro type is made. They then get some plate printer that can be found about the city, have good time with him and engage him at twenty dollars per day to do the printing. By this plan thousands of copies are struck of which defy detec- ton, except in the quality of the paper, which will slightly differ from the gen nine. The place of manufacture is gen. orally some distance from New York, like Staten Island, Flatbush, or some times Baxter street, or similar localities in that city.

 It is strange fact, in every case where party of this kind exists, that every member lacks confidence in his associate. Every move made by one is narrowly watched by others of the par V. It would be death to an informant or spy that did not look well to him. salf
Year: 1873

We have seldom seen more striking instance of audacious impudence, under the circumstances, than that of MT. Henry N. Smiths statement made to the Banking and Currency Committee during his examination by them rela- tive to the lookup of money by the Tenth National Bank of this city. "I did not think of doing it before the pre- vious afternoon" he said |" it was what I called dash. It was purely freak of my own." This playful |" freak dis arranged business throughout the coun- try, ruined two or three of his compan- ions on the street" and made great disturbance generally among banks and other moneyed institutions. It is not a light matter that this conspiracy against business, against commerce, against the interests, not of city or state, but of the whole country, should have been entered into between this man and a great banking institution. "This thing was not done in corner" but, openly, and in the presence of all men. Mir. Smith gained credit thereby and the bank got no harm.

 If it be wrong to break into a mans house and steal his money, how is it any more right to force 1t from him by stop ping ali the avenues of rehef---avenues, be it remembered, created especially for his accomodation---and pressing him into position where he must either be ruined or lose his entire business repu- tation. This is what Messrs. Smith X Palmer did, and yet they go unwhipped If justice. The Banking and Currency Committee have, indeed, reported bill making it the duty of the Comptroller, in any future case of the misuse of national bank,. to proceed against the directors in the United States Courts, the penalty being forfeiture of the char ter, imprisonment for five years, and 6 fine of not less than $10,0OO This is we'll as far as it goes, and we trust that such bill will be passed and rigidly enforced hereafter. But if, as the com mittee expressly says, the action of the Tenth National Bank was clear viola tion of the banking act, why is not that bank made to suffer Does the lapse of few months condone so great a crime Is the promise of such men that they will never do so again of suf- fcient validity to win forgiveness If the bank were wound up, if there be law enough for that purpose, there would be good cause for congratulation, and some hope that the warning would be sufficient for other banks disposed to enter into such. operations with the Wall street thieves. .---N y. Post.
Year: 1873

When the ------ Foot were in Bermuda. the adjutant of the regiment had dog, which was of very savage nature. He had some of the bloodhound in him. and at night he was in the habit of prowhng round the barracks, to the ter TOT of the sentinels and others who were compelled bytduty or otherwise to be out after tattoo roll-cal. One night the dog was the subject of conversation in the guard-room, and one of the soldiers, a native of the Emerald Isle, broke in :: E Shat dog comes near me on my post, I'll stick the bayonet in him." Sure enough he did; for in the morning "Nip" was found stark and stiff, with the ominous three-cornered hole made by the bayonet in his breast, through which his canine soul had fed to the land where bayonets are never known.

 There was tremendous outcry, and Dennis, the murderer, soon found him. self the inmate of a "prisoner's room. !" On his being brought before Col. H., the offense was read over, and then the colonel after hearing the evidence, asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself. "Well, sir, in the middle of the night, while on sentry, the dog showing his teeth, and I used my bay onet to defend myself" The adjutant here broke in with, eff the dog was rushing at you to bite you, why did you not strike him with the butt of your piece p "So would, sir," said Den his, "had he run at me with his tail. 9 The answer convulsed the colonel, and Dennis was ordered to return to duty at Onoo
Year: 1873

AWife's Power. The power of a wife, for good or evil, is irresistible. With out one, home must be forever un- known. A good wife is to a man wisdom, strength and courage; 0 bad one is confusion, weakness and despair. No condition is hopeless to 8 man where the wife possesses firmness, decision and economy. There is no outward propriety which can counteract indo- lence, extravaganza and folly at home. No spirit can long endure bad influence. Man is strong, but his heart is not ada mant. He delights in enterprise and actiop, but to sustain him he needs a tranquil mind :; and especially if he is an intelligent man, whole head, he needs his moral force in the conflict of life. To recover his composure, home must be place of peace and comfort. There his soul renews it's strength, and goes forth with fresh vigor to encounter the labor and troubles of life. If at home he finds no rest, and is there met with bad temper, sullenness, jealousy and gloom, or assailed with complaints and censure, hope vanishes, and he sinks in- to despair. Such is the case with too many who, it mfght seem, have no con- dicts or trials of life; for such is the wife's power.
Year: 1873

Soak the feet in warm water, with little Cayenne pepper in it, two or three times week. Try this for month, or longer, if necessary, and you will find it an excellent remedy for cold feet. I do not know why rubbing the back with the same would not bring J. J. B. relief. Sprinkle the inside of your stockings. lightly, with Cayenne pepper in the coldest weather, and your feet will keep warm during the day and every day until you change your stockings.
Year: 1873

The importance of giving Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders to horses that have been out in the cold rain, stood in cold wind, or drank too much cold water, cannot be overes- hmated; no man should be without them who owns a horse.-Com
Year: 1873

A Boston paper tells the cheerful story of 8 physician who stepped into a horse-car, the other day, and after using his nostrils moment or two, exclaimed, in a voice loud enough for all passen- gers to hear, Somebody in this car has got the smallpox; I can smell it. Those who are afraid of it had better go out" With one exception, the passen- gers moved out speedily. The excep- tion was a middle-aged woman who had large bundle in her lap. The physi- clan asked her what the bundle con- tained, and she told him it was none of his business. He made it his business to investigate, however, and found that the bundle contained the corpse of a young child that had died of the small- poX.
Year: 1873

On the steamship Virginia, that ar
rived in New York Saturday, were 3


man and a woman who had met, loved


and been married on board the ship.


The most interesting feature ot this
hasty affair was that the happy couple
would not permit minister to per
form the ceremony, but insisted on the
captain marrying them, which he did.
Year: 1873

ports of San Diego. There was shipped
from Anabeim Landing to New York
during 1873, SAP gallons Of wine and
two tons of wool, or Ala tons in weight.
making from the two points over 1000
tons of freight. This amount would
be largely and steadily increased If the
facilities for handling were better, but
as long as freight for New York must
be first sent by rail to Wilmington,
then transferred by lighter to q coast
steamer, taken to San Diego, and again
transferred to the New York boat, it
can be readily understood that we are
laboring under disadvantages, that
must be removed before we can hope
to enjoy an independent trade. Given
a railroad to deep water, and the New
York steamers instead of passing by,
would gladly call for our freight, and
we would save a large sum annually in
lighterage and freights.
Year: 1873

Late dispatches from Washington
state that the Secretary of the Treas
ury, frightened at the continually in
creasing expenses of the Government,
has recommended an increase of taxes,
and is engaged in cutting down the
estimates to the lowest notch. The
sums wanted for forts, rivers and har-
bors was fixed at $40, 900, 900, but this
amount will be materially reduced.
This is not very good news to those
who are waiting for an appropriation
for the purpose of dredging out chan
mel from the harbor to Wilmington,
and will be disappointment to many
who have built their hopes on aid
from the Government for that purpose,
but tits always best to look things fair
ly in the face, and every candid man
must admit that the prospect is
gloomy. The most that can be hoped
for, is that the unexpended balance
appropriated for the breakwater may
be devoted to dredging, and that it
may be increased sufficiently to give us
deep water on the bar. If this can be
accomplished we should have deep
water to Rattlesnake Island, and with
the road extended to that point, light
erage would be abolished and our COM
merce relieved of heavy tax. This
is practical plan and the people of
this city may be content to wait rea-
sonable period, and make every effort
to have it carried out, but the nonsen-
sical proposition that the railroad
must stay where it is until the chan
mel is dredged clear to Wilmington,
will not satisfy enterprising people.
General Banning's organ asserts that
there is now from seven to eight feet o


water at Wilmington, at extreme low
tide. This statement is made simply
for the purpose of misleading the peo-
pie. There is no such depth of water
at the wharf, and everybody knows it;
in fact at extreme low water the
ground is practically bare. To wait
appropriations to dig channel to the
railroad, when everything points to
an extreme reluctance on the part of
Congress to expending money, is alb
surd, and we do not believe our people
will be put off with such chaff.