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Year: 1870

CLEAN UP.-It will be seen by refer
ring to the advertisement of the City
Health Officer, in another column, that
allipartcs having tellcnicnts, &C., arc noti-
lied to hive the same cleanscd and put in
good sanitary condition under penalty Of
the enforcement Of tho law. This y q
move IN the right direction ut tho right
time East summer the people Of the city
were greatly annoyed aud exposed to dan
ger by the prosecution Of this work in the
hottest weather Of the summer. We arc
very glad 70 sec that different, pt4Tof
operations Is to be pursued this season.
Now is the time to clean up, before the
hot weather comes Then it wtlEbe easy
to keep the city clean and healthfdl dur.
ing the summer. We trust DR.. Reeves
will he energetic, and TINT citizens will
render him every aid in their power In
making this sanitary work thorough.
Year: 1870

Last Sunday morning as Mr.. John
George was passing by the deserted build
ing standing on the opposite side OF the
road from the Oddtellows and Masonic
graveyard, he discovered the body of man
living on the floor A close examination
showed that the man was dead, and the
Coroner was promptly notified. A jury
was empanelled and the case investigated.
1t appeared from the testimony adduced
that the name Of the deceased was Line,
but that he was generally known as "Com-
modore" He resided in Trinity, and was
about 43 years of age. Came to Shasta on
the End inst. Spent several days drinking
whisky. Also bought several ounces of
laudanum at the Drug Store. Disappeared
on Friday evening and was seen no more
until found dead as above mentioned


On examination the Coroner found the
corpse laying face downward, the head,
neck and one arm projecting over place
where the flooring had been removed A
deep cut several inches in length on the
right side of the neck explained the cause
of death. The sheath knife with which
the wound was inflicted, lay on the floor
near the corpse, covered with blood, and
in one of the pockets was found phial partly
filled with laudanum. The hat and black
silk Northumberland worn by deceased
were found lying in an old cellar several
yards from where he lay, and it was evident
that he lhad deliberately prepared to kill
himself by cutting his throat, The jury
rendered verdict to the effect that de-
ceased came to his death by deliberate
suicide, and the corpse was buried at the
expense of the county
Year: 1870




vidng that warrants issued by the County
of Shasta, should not bear interest, was
approved We are satisfied that the au-
thor of the measure believed that it would
tend to promote the interest of the people
and of the county. In fact his views in
relation to the matter were at that time in
harmony with the opinions of quite num-
Der of our citizens.


But no matter what opinions were en-
tertained in regard to the probable effects
of the law at the time of its enactment, it
is an undsniable fact that its actual oper-
ations have disappointed its advocates and
produced unfavorable results After test
of two years, the almost unanimous verdict
of the people is that the law has proved in
furious, and if permitted to exist in future,
will prove still more injurious to the public
welfare Hence the demand for its repeal
has become urgent and general among the
people, irrespective of party, and among
the advocates of repeal may be counted
nearly all of the men who at first favored
the law.


The following facts furnish few reas-
ons why the law should be repealed.


The Indebtedness of the county has not
diminished under its operations.


Bills for hospital supplies, and for all
work done for the county, except where
the rates of compensation are fixed by law
or contract, are now made out at higher
figure just in proportion to the depreciation
of the value of the non-interest bearing
scrip in which payment is made.


The more scrip depreciates the higher
the bills and greater the issue.


Previous to the passage of the law, scrip
commanded a steady price in the market,
and brought from IS to 80 cents in the
Redemption Fund Now, although we
have the additional benefit OF the revenue
derived from the sale of Foreign Miners
Licenses, scrip has no definite value in the
market, and it is evident that when the
unredeemed non-interest bearing warrants,
! together with the regular quarterly issue,
is hereafter forced into the Redemption
Fund, said warrants will not bring to ex-
ceed 40 cents on the dollar


While certain officials are paid for their
services in coin from salary funds" set
apart for such especial purpose, other off,
cials are compelled to receive their pay in
scri p, which now rauks next in value to
Copper City mining stock.


Again, taxpayers who have to leave
their homes and occupations to attend on
the courts in the capacity of Grand Jurors,
Trial Jurors, &c, are paid in this non-in-
terest bearing scrip, cannot sell the amounts
allowed them for half enough to pay their
necessary expenses, and are consequently
out of pocket everytime they are summon
ed to the county seat.


Let the law be repealed, scrip bear a
reasonable interest, and the credit of the
county will be redeemed 1t is not right
that the warrants of county having no
greater debt than Shasta, should be allow
ed to become almost worthless, and the
county forced to occupy the unenviable
position of wholesale repudiator of honest
Indebtedness
Year: 1870

WILD DUCKs-After they are cleaned
and ready for cooking, wrap them in clean
cloth, and bury twelve hours in the earth,
to remove the strong flavor of this bird
They are usually cooked without stuffing.
Three-quarters of an hour will be sufficient
to cook them. When you dish it, draw
sharp knife three times through the breast
and pour over gravy of little hot butter,
the juice of lemon, sprinklng of cay
enne pepper, and wineglass of port wine.
This is poured over as they go on the
table.
Year: 1870

They have queer way of saluting peo-
pie at Salisbury, Connecticut At an
Episcopal convocation held there not long
since Winsted layman was about entering
the church in company with the clergy
man, when a crowd of loafers near the
door, who had been with him during the
rebellion yelled to him, "How are you
CapY What We doin? Won't you come
and take an oldfashioned drink, the way
We used to do in the army?"
Year: 1870

Nor WELL TAKEN.-It is suggested
that the State ought not to be taxed to
erect mansion for Governor Haight.
That is not the point Shall the State
erect White House for her Governor?
1t could not be built in time to be occupied
by the present Governor save for few
months only, wherefore the proposition is
not to erect it for any one person or Gov
ernor, but for all Governors
Year: 1870

A clerk in dry goods store at Forest
Hill, attempted to take liberties with
little girl twelve years of age the other day.
She went home and told her father, who
went to the store and few minutes later
that store contained the worst looking clerk
ever seen in Forest Hill
Year: 1870

FAVOR REPEAL.-We understand that
the Supervisors are of the opinion that the
interest and credit of the county would be
promoted by the repeal of the act prohibit
ing interest on county warrants. They are
certainly competent judges of the matter,
as they are the chief guardians of the
eounty's welfare.
Year: 1870

A WHITE star or spot NAV, it is said be
produced on horse by the application OF
picked mackerel Confne it in the desir-
ed shape for three or four days, renewing
occasionally, and the white spot will ap-
pear.
Year: 1870

Poison IN THE Arg.-Under this head we pub
Iish this morning the result of careful analysis
OF the air of New York and Brooklyn, but more
particularly of the latter city. The report is
as instructive as entertaining. From it we
learn how much carbonic acid our children are
compelled to inhale at the public and private
schools, and how much we voluntarily breathe
al theatres and other public places There is
but little of pleasant character in the infor-
nation. Even the streets of the two cities are
filed with poisonous exhalations, while in pub
lie buildings the air is yet more dangerous to
health and life. 1t is TO be regretted that the
Board of Health did not extend the investiga-
tion to the air breathed by the denizens Of
tenement houses, for in these the ventilation
IS the most defective, and if in theatres, hoapi-
tails, churches and schools poisons abound,
what must the state Of the air be in the homes
Of the poor2
Year: 1870

pet ward, viii be Of short duration. Such an
association must be repngnant to tho finer
feelings Of such men as Senator Creamer and
Senator Genet, however naturally restive
and combatiye the latter may be. As for
Senator Creamer, we would as soon look for
the mating together of the wolf and the lamb
as for an alliance between him and Mike
Norton, the acknowledged and recognized
leader of the worst rowdy element Of his dis
trict. Mikes little game Of ''strike" will not
succeed, and the sooner he recedes from his
present opposition to his party and to the
people the better it will be for him.


So much for the opposition, over which the
radical republican sheets, followed by the howl
ings OF the Manhattan Club organ, have been
sounding their paans of victory in anticipa-
tion Of the defeat of the peoples Magma Charta.
IT is not that we favor all the provisions in
detail contained Ia that instrument that we are
so anxious for its passage; nor would we COM
mend over-hasty legislation in the matter. The
manner Of electing the Board OF Supervisors
may call for special legislation by and by.
The extension of the Aldermanic term to two
years would come in better after we have had
a trial of the working of the proposed system
of election on general ticket, instead OF, as
heretofore, by districts. Should the Alder
manic Board be purified by this change in the
manner of election it viii then be time enough
for the citizens to consider the question Of ex-
tending the time of holding the office. Until
theft we would not favor departure from the
one year term.


What The people want. however, is restora-
ton of their just civic rights, of which they
have been so long deprived; and that is just
what the radical press is opposed to. The
opponents of the Charter have spread them
selves upon it at length, but it proves to them
a Trocrustean bed, upon which they wriggle
and writhe in all agony Of spirit. They see
in the fast-coIning future on end to partisan
rule and return to independent self-govern-
ment--to an administration Of municipal
affairs such as existed here thirty-fve years
ago, when it was not only an honor to be q
city official, but when that honor was aspired
to and sought after by the best and worthiest
citizens of New York. Such government
the people anxiously desire to have restored
to them, and they hail as the first promise
thereof the Introduction before democratic
Legislature of the new Magma Charta of 1870.
Year: 1870

THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. publish
elsewhere an exposition Of the great expense
to which the government is put by the franISing
privilege. 1t not only entails loss upon the
mail service OF some two hundred thousand
dollars or more per anuum, but it is also the
cause of an immense amount Of printing at
the public expense, which would never have
been ordered by Congress had the members
been compelled to pay their own postage.
Year: 1870

BY the new apportionment the num-
ber of members in the popular branch
of Congress is increased to 300. The
act requires that report of the results
of the census shall be made on or be-
fore the 20th of September, 1870, that
the basis of representation may be as
certained in advance of the publica-
ton of all the details. It also pro-
vides that where there is an increase
of the number of members to be elect
ed to the next Congress, the addition
al member shall be elected on gen.
eral ticket, unless the State previously
provide some other method.
Year: 1870

A New York paper announces that
the Erie Railway Company announce
on and after Monday, the 18th, that
they will reduce the running time 50
Chicago seven hours by means of the
thirty hour train, to be known as the
"Great Pacific Express!" The
westward traveller, taking his seat
at ten o'clock on any given
morning In one of the superb draw
ino-roOn coaches of the Erie line, at
Jersey City, may thus enjoy a ride
rendered comfortable by all the ac-
cessories of Epieurus ana Somnus, and
alight in Chicago at four the next after
noon, not wearied and hungry with
travel, but fresh as if awaking from
a quiet snoOze after dinner,
Year: 1870

As an illustration of the idea that
some people have of the nature and
character Of an attorney, we give the
following genuine anecdote which oc-
Cured not long since in Dubuque. One
of our oldest members of the bar received
a call late one afternoon from former
friend whom we had known for twenty
five years, and who had travelled all
day to reach his old friend with view
to make some arrangements for the
benefit of son, whom he believed to
be fitted, naturally, for no vocation but
that of a lawyer. After taking long
breath he said:


Judge, L have come to see you on
some very serious business"


Indeed! What has happened? You
don't want a divorce? Have you claim
on some estate?"


"Oh no, nothing of that kind; but l
have got boy"


"Well L congratulate you. When
was he born?


"Uh, he is sixteen years old, and 4
can't do anything with him, and want
you to take him."


"Why, ifyou can't manage him, what
could | do with him."


"You can make lawyer of him; he is
good for nothing else, and l will tell you
Year: 1870

The representatives of both wings of
the Republican party in Virginia had a
three days meeting last week to har-
mOniZe their differences. Good counsels
seem to have prevailed, and there is a
prospect of more efficient work down
there than hitherto. The meeting
adopted a declaration of principles, viz:
Universal amnesty; enforcement Ofthe
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
in letter and spirit; enactment of such
laws as are necessary to secure freedom
of speech and action; encouragement of
internal improvement by State and ma
tion; enforcement of the new State
Constitution in good faith; protection
of the interests of the people against
encroachment of monopolies; support,of
President and Congress, and general
and universal system of public educa-
ton at the public expense, under ma
tional law, whenever such a system is
not adopted and enforced by State Gov
ernments.
Year: 1870

TOT lue belElOnJ CnrOnlcle.


Temperance In Hendrysburg.


Whatever may be the destiny of King
Alcohol in other sections of the county,
Hendrysburg is rOusing to a sense of her
situation. a few such tragedies as the
Gaus shooting affair, and of Bethel and
Hains, will bring the citizens of this
community to a sense of their RESPONSE
bilities. But recently there has been
an awakening to the dire necessity of
having something done. Temperance
men who can be temperance men and
indulge little in good old rye or spark
ling hard cider are yielding the point.
Men who have sons just on the verge of
manhood land see them staggering un-
der the influence OF hard cider or even
something stronger, are willing TO knock
the head out of their cider barrels or
shut down on the beverage. AS long as
the evil comes not near our own doors /;
while our neighbors sons, only, get
drunk, we sit idly by and console our
selves that it is none of our business; !;
but when the evil comes home 10 US, We
cry out for prompt action. Now the
question arises, who who will take the
responsibility of leading in the matter?
We would barely make the suggestion
that to obtain the desired result all that
is necessary is to become identified with
some organized temperance body. But
the objection-there isn't anything of
the kind in Hendrysburg that has any
influence. Mister writer, says enquirer,
you hayn't any body of any influence
in your Lodge of Good Tempiars that
amount to anything. Sorry to admit
it, but l have heard just such excuses,
not from drunkards nor tiplers but from
members of church, men-shall l say
thigh in official positions and tenn
perance men too, deploring the sad state
of things at Hendrysburg, and their
own sons and brothers under the sway
of the fell dest roger.


We offer in the order and asy-
lum for the inebriate as well as the
primary steps TO secure legislative en-
actmemt on the subject. Why whine
about drunkenness, debauehery and
murder, when we lend our influence in
favor of just the state of things we de-
plore? Why not be consistant? Why
not organize ellac.ually and stop the
monster evil? Let every schoelhouse
in our townshipb be dedicated to the cause;
teach our children as faithfully the ne
Year: 1870

Ofall the evils prevalent among young
men, we know of none more blighting
in its moral effects than to speak slight
ly of the virtue of women. Nor is there
anything in which young men are so
thoroughly mistaken, as the low esti-
mate they form of the integrity of
wOman-not OF their own mothers and
sisters, but of others, who, they forget,
are somebody eise's mothers and sisters.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point for the evil is a general one, and
deep rooted. If young men are some
TIMES thrown into the society of thought
less or lewd women they have no more
right to measure other women by these
than they would have to estimate the
character of honest and respectable cit
izens by the departments ofcrime in our
police courts.


Let our young men remember that
the chief happiness depends upon their
utter faith in women. No worldly wis
dom, no misanthropic philosophy, no
generalization can cover or weaken this
truth. 1t stands like record of God
itself-and should put an everlasting
seal upon lips that are. wont to speak
slightly of women.- Boston Investi-
gator.
Year: 1870

Wendell Phillips, in an address in
Music Hall, Boston, once said:


II know a soldier in the army of the
Potomac, who was picked up in the
streets of Philadelphia, one year ago,
complete wreck-a confirmed inebriate
but who was, by the love of a sister
charity of Boston home, placed once
more on his feet. He was at Balls Bluff,
and three times with unlOaded musket,
charged upon the enemy. He was one
of the six who heroically defended and
brought away the body of the fallen
leader of that bloody fight. The captain
of the company to which he belonged
died in his arms, receiving the last
words of consolation from his lips. He
was afterwards conspicuous in the con-
fiicG, until the orders were given for
each one o seek his own safety. Re-
moving some of his apparel, he plunged
into the inhOspitable river, and after
great exertion landed on the opposite
bank, seven miles below the eneamp-
ment. Nearly exhausted, half clad, half
starved, he finally reached the camp.
The captain of the next company TO
which he belonged kindly said to him,
pouring out glass of wine, Let me
give you this ; you will perish without
it, L thank you, SIR said the soldier,
but would sooner face all the cannon
of the enemy than that glass of wine.
Year: 1870

If intemperance leads to poverty,
crime, and premature death, then is not
intemperance great evil. That it does
thus lead, no sane man will honestly
attempt to deny. The confirmed drunk
ard Is not made SO in few months,
prehaps not for many years but con-
tlnued tampering with alcoholic bever-
ges, in time accomplished his ruin. The
appetite for stimulating drink is almost
universally formed in early life, grow
ing with life's growth and strengthen
ing with its weakness. From twelve to
twenty-one, the nine years wherein the
boy developes into the man, is the criti-
Cal time. Safely past this period with
out having tasted stimulating drink,
after that, temptation will readily be
resisted. Few drunkards will be found
who never tasted the beverage that led
to 1T until after they attained their ma
jority. Then it is manifestly the dictate
OF sound policy, an imperative duty,
that experienced age secure all possible
safe guards for the benefit of inexperi-
enced youth. Then is the legislation
wise, that has for its object the suppress
sion of places where ale, beer, porter,
&C., are sold, thereby tempting the for
NATION of ruinous habits in boys, who
in few years will be the men on whom
Will rest the management of great
nation. Then with no vindictive or
unkind feeling toward vendor or drink
er, let all right feeling people resolve,
and firmly hold that resolve to its work
by their moral religious sentiment,
that all laws and ordinances, having for
their object the suppression of these de-
moralizing places will be rigidly enforc-
ed. There has always has been a con-
flict between right and wrong. There Of
necessity will be until vice is eradicated,
unless we become so corrupt,so besotted,
as no longer to perceive where moral
principal leads, so confused as no lon
ger to be able to distinguish right from
wrong. The history of our past is al
most a guarantee that such will not
be OuI future. A moral and religious
sentiment that fought to its death such
an institution as United states human
chattleism, will not rest satisfied until
minor wrongs are corrected. Will pa
rents and guardians refiect.-[B Buckley
State.
Year: 1870

|fEaH o. . q


When you call at the Office FOR your
mail, and the postmaster hands it out,
ask him if that is all. % ~,


If you ask for mail and he tells you
there is none, tell him there ought to
be, then go home and send the rest of
the family around to ask at different
times through the day. ,..,,'., -.
Don't bring, your mail to the Office
until the mail closes, then curse the
postmaster for not opening the mail
bag and putting your letter in.


When you want a stamp on your
letter, tell the postmaster to put it on;
if he don't like it lick him. o In case
you put it on yourself soak it in your
mouth long enough to remove the
mucilage it will then stick until it is
Year: 1870

a ADEsEcRATION.-Some one wholly devoid of
decency has been guilty of stealing the floral
wreatAs which kindly hands lately distributed
on soldiers graves in the cemetery below town.
There is no word in the English language that
will express the total want of honor belonging
to the man who did this. He is simply nobody