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Year: 1871

CALIFORNIA MONSTERS. The Pacific coast
is wonderfully rich in fossiled remnants Of the
antedeluyian era Within two nonths, says d
San Francisco correspondent, discoveries have
been made which in any other country would
furnish material for endless discussion. What
was evidently an immense sea monster hes on
a high plateau, about one hundred miles south
east Of Nevada, and from its position it is sup
posed that the locality was once great shoal,
and that the leyiathan perished on its surface
as the water receded. The petrifaction is per-
feet, and is estimated to weigh about ten tons.
1t has the head and body Of q hump backed
whale, while the extremities extend into feelers
and attene, like the polypus or devil-fsh, with
the exception that they were evidently lined,
during life, with hard and bony substance
The head is fat and oblong, with eyes set on
each side, twenty-four inches apart: The
mouth is armed with triple rows Of fteeth, sharp
in front, but underneath and well into the jaws
they turn into grinders, capped by solid osseOus
formation. The length not determined At
the present time there is on exhibition i'm San


Francisco the tusk and some teeth Of an ante
deluvian animal whose magnitude must have
dwarfed inN littleness the most monstrous mas


todon or megatherium Of which we have any
account-a beast so large as almost to defy the
power Of Inauguration to conjure up before the
minds eye an image so vast. The remains
We're discovered very recently in formation OF
cement and lava near Stockton, in California;
One of the teeth weighs ninety-seyen pounds


and the tusk to which it belonged must have
been several hundred feet long, and weighed
hundreds of tons These mammoth bones will
shortly leave for the east and Europe, and are


certain to create a sensation wherever seen.
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connublal
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through pS life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
nrospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness ol
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

MAIL TO rae SACRAMENTO RIVER ROUTE.
1t having been rumored for several days
past that 1t was the intention of the Stage
Company to transfer their line to the Sac
ramento River route, aud carry the daily
overland mail that way, we took occasion
yesterday to call upon Mr.. Peck, the gentle
manly agent of the company at this place,
to ascertain just what credence might be
placed in there ruorms. From him We learn
the following facts The company have
expected an order from the Post Office De-
partment authorizing and requiring them to
carry the daily overland mail by the Sac
ramento river route. But such order has not
yet been received, nor is it known definitely
that it has been made. The Company, how.
ever, are confdeat that they will receive
such an order. Immediately on receipt of
the order they will transfer their stock,
coaches, etc They will endeavor to run from
here to Sesma, the terminus of the railroad,
in "a hours; they may not be able to per-
form it in quite that time. The company
will run daily stage from the junction of
the Sacramento River road with the Shasta
road, to the town of Shasta From Shasta
to Trinity Centre they will carry the mail
either on horseback or by some cheap con
veyance, but perhaps not oftener than two
or three times week. They will run also a
daily stage from Yreka to Callahan's. Be-
tween Trinity Center and Callahan's no
mail will be carried. Mail matter from be
low, for Scott Valley will first be brought
by the Sacramento River route to Yreka.
and then be sent thence by the Callaban's
stage. So also Scott Valley matter for be-
low will first come here to Yreka, and will
then gp from here by the Sacramento River
route. These are the arrangements the
Company will make if they remove their
through line to the Sacramento River road.
Il Yreka Union.


We are Informed that the company's con-
tract calls for a daily mail by the Trinity
route, and there will be ''muss" if it is not
carried.
Year: 1871

YNHE UNDERSIGNED GIVES NOTICE TO
i the Property Holders of Shasta County, that
in accordance with the requireme nts of law he has
entered upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


' If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his or her,
or their taxable property, or false list of taxable
property under his, her, their control, such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury. and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor,
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property willfully concealed, removed,
transferred, misrepresented. by the owner any
agent thereof, to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent. of the amount
such additional tax, when collected shall be paid
to the person PERSONS who shall furnish the
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


If Tax Payers were to have list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work.


C. W. TAYLOR,


Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, April I'd, 1871. n4.
Year: 1871

University of Vermont to accept the
presidency of the University of Mich
1gan, will receive salary of 81, 500 and
house rent, besides which the expense
of his removal to Ann Arbor are to be
paid. It is said that Professor Frieze,
of the University of Michigan, was in
strumental in inducing President An
gell to go west. Professor Frieze has
been acting president of the college,
and has been very successful. He was
offered the presidency, but declined,
saying that President Angel was the
man for the place, and he believed he
could be induced to take it. This in
cident proves the value of both men to
an institution of that kind.
Year: 1871

A CEMENT FOR IRoN.-Sixty parts OF
pulverized cast-iron turnings are mixed
with two parts sal ammoniac and one
part flour of sulphur, and water is
added till paste is formed A cement
is thus obtained which spontaneously
becomes hot, evolving sulphureted
hydrogen and becoming soon very hard.
Of course it must be prepared imme-
diately before use.
Year: 1871

A HALIFAX gentleman was sadly de-
luded at fair the other day He Of
fered a young lady ten dollars for a
curl from her head. His surprise may
be imagined when the young lady cut
it off and gave it to him with smile.
His further indignation may be imag-
ined, when he learned that the eLtire
covering cost only three dollars. Thus
is trasting man ever deceived by ap-
pearances.
Year: 1871

A FEW DAYS ago in New Orleans, as
boy, eighteen years old, was wading
along Nelpomene street, in that city,
which was deeply flooded at the time
he suddenly felt an acute pain IN one of
his feet, and, raising it to the surface,
saw a c0nger eel follow, and felt it bite
him again. He soon grew very sick,
and was carried to his home and attend
ed by physician, but died the next
day.


IT is evident that Miss Winnie Ream's
statue OF Lincoln has not give univer-
sal satisfaction. 70 be very candid in
deed, there is but one person who is
satisfied, and that IS the fair sculp-
tress herself, who may be pictured
shaking her pretty curls over large
sum of money to which her skill as an
artist does not entitle her. Her cajohng
a commission out Of the government
was more a work of art than her
statue.


THE spread of epidemic cholera
throughout India is suggestive of no
very cheerful anticipations. DIR. Bry-
/ den, of the India Sanitary Commission,
has recently written his annual report
on the spread of the cholera in that
country. The report concludes with
the opinion that this plague eannotbe
prevented, aud that no human efforts
can stay its progress. When We re-
member that, beginning usually in In
dia, the cholera spreads westward un-
til it has reached our shores, the course
of the present disease in India Will be
/ followed with solicitude
Year: 1871

The last rat story is from Chicago. In a
house where the rats had boen very troub-
lesome, traps had long been set, but to no
purpose. Finally some of the family da
termined to watch the trap. 1t was Gun
ningly set. Soon young rat appeared and
was about stepping on the fatal spring, when
an old rat rushed to the rescue, seized the
indiscreet juvenile By the tail and dragged
him off to the hole
Year: 1871

CoURrING.-Here is specimen of the
good old fashioned mode Of courting as it
was done in Connecticut. Deacon Marven,
a large landholder and most exemplary man,
accomplished his in business like way


Having one day mounted his horse with
a sheep skin for a saddle, he rode in front
of the house where Bette Lee lived, and
without dismounting, requested Bette to
come to Lin. On coming, he told her the
Lord had sent him to marry her. Bette
replied:


The Lord : win be done
Year: 1871

NARROW MINDED men, who have not a
thought beyond the sphere of their own
outlook, remind one of the Hindoo maxim !:
THE snail sees nothing but its own shell,
and thinks it the grandest palace in the uni
Year: 1871

BI HOUsEKEEPER.


A woman who does all her own work
who has very little means at her COM
mand, and who besides is mother Of sew
eral small children, none of whom are able
to help her. or wait on themselves. but.
on the contrary. require constant atteu.
ton, often has weary moments Of utter
encouragement. Her thoughts run some
what in this way II am completely
tired out, yet my work is not half done.
l meant to have accomplished so much
to-day but l had bad kindling, and
the fire has been poor in consequence /;
then the baby has been cross, and the
other children noisy and boisterous, and
having them indoors all the time this
cold weather is 80 tiresome to them and
to me. There are little stockings to be
knitted, and shirts for husband to be
made-dear me, | am sure | do not see



where am going to find the time to do
them! But that is not the worst of it.
My darling children are so neglected. l
can't possible spare the time to train
them Alright; and when | see other per-
sons children so quiet and orderly, and
80 neat aud we'll dressed, it makes me
feel badly. l am afraid my children
will turn out miserably. 1t is seldom |
can stop to correct them as l should
and it is only on Sunday afternoon that
| ever can get them, around me to talk to
them tell them story, or appear like a
real, true mother to them" Dear mother
be not discouraged. That little Sunday
afternoon talk. the distress which you
display in your countenance whenever
your child utters an evil word, or acts
unkindly. and the prayful desire on your
part to do them good. will have Its re
ward Those little, quiet, peaceful talks
will be as a grain of mustard-seed sowr
in good ground. which. although the seed
is 80 small that it seems invisible to The
human sight, shall spring up vigorous
strong and irresistible.


If you do the best you can, depend
upon it you shall be rewarded.


Again ! say be not discouraged
Those children who are brought up in
refinement and luxury, who have ser.
wants to wait upon them, and have every
want and whim gratif-d. are not always
the children who make the strongest and
noblest men and women. Those little
ones, who are partially neglected through
an actual want Of time on the part OF
their parents, and who have to rough it a
little. are apt. in time. to fight manfully
the battle of life Not that l advocate
bringing up child to trough" it where
circumstances made a different course
possible. But do say there is comfor,
and hope for the weary. distressed and
discouraged mother who does all she can
and more than her strength really war
rants her in doing for her Children
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1871

Two young men in New York were
sky-larking, last week. when one picked
up q pistol and said, lookout I may
shoot you." Hardly had the word beer
spoken before the pistol went of. sh'
ball entering the neck and producing
death in few hours. r-F-e E %
Year: 1871

Persons having pet dogs will read
with interest the following from a Chi
cago man; pdl lb si44n sf


The writer of this was bitten by a
small dog some eighteen months ago.
The bite was washed as soon as possible
with vinegar and salt; subsequently
cauterized with muriatie acid. Z Those
who know me know, that am not man
to succumb to any disease or difficulty,
and should my name be signed to this


would be astonished that should be so
weak as to yield to the bite of q mad
dog Nevertheless, if not in h,rtheranee
of physical science, as matter of cu-
riosity and inquiry, let me state my i'm
pressions. There is not moment when
my mind is disengaged but what it re-
ours, not to the dog, but to the bite. |
never awake in the morning but the first
impulse is to scratch the bitten part,
while before going to sleep have some
thing of the nature of paralysis; not,
be it understood, a cramp or contraction
of the muscles. Inasmuch as | would
as soon die with hydrophobia as in any
other way or manner, it cannot be fear
that produces these impressions, Yet it
has often occurred TO me that if should
lose control of fmy mental faculties /
should become under the control of
rabies. While on the snbject let me
state the case of -, who for ten years
lived in dread Of the hydrophobia, and
did die of what physicians termed rabies,
when to my mind | was satisfied that the
dread of the disease brought it on. 1so.
Year: 1871

reversed the decision which declared
the Railroad Aid Tax Law of 1865
unconstitutional. "The effect of this
decision" says the Hamkeye, "will
probably be to revive the taxes voted
undes that law but not collected on
account Of the former decision which
is now reversed.n
Year: 1871

The correspondent of the Boston
Journal writes from Wyoming All
interesting letter as to the working
OF female suffrage in that territory.
We make the following extracts:


probabilities can never be as pO-
tent AS facts, and whatever the testi-
mony, nObOdy's eyes and ears are
quite as good as our own, and SO we


were very glad to learn for ourselves
what was the true state of the case In
Wyoming. When upon its soil we
asked its quiet tundemOnstrative Gov
ernor what had been the practical
working of woman suffrage there.
He replied at once: Excellent; 1t
has worked well. / approved the
bill giving suffrage to woman with
out looking favorably upon it, owing
to my early prejudices, but have seen
no reason to regret the step, and am
rather forced by the results to be-
come an advocate Of it." Then we
began to hope after all the rosy view
might be the true one, and so IL
proved. His testimony was most
unequivocally in its favor, and so
was that of every person whom we
met in the Territory.


The women number two thousand,
and not the least surprising thing is
that no one of them at present holds
any Office in the Territory, not even
that of a justice of the peace. There
is no prejudice against it. but they do
not seek public life. We did not
hear mention of female orator while
we were there. 1t appeared that
the matrOns keep to their housewOrk
and their firesides, as of old, save on
election days, and that then they all
90 forth and vote as it seemeth unto
them good. The tickets they carry
are by no means sure Of being the
Same that their husbands support,
for il is a well known fact that it was
the votes of the women that swung
the Territory round into the Repub-
lican ranks, where 1t has since re-
mained.


Equally unequiyocal was the testi-
mony, in regard to the excellent
service that women had rendered as
Jurors. Their naInesare drawn from
those of other registered voters, the
proportion Of women to men being
determined wholly by accident.
Twice il has stood six to six; again
two women were called upon to
serve, and at another time only one.
The verdicts have been satisfactory
to all save the criminals. In one
case the "forewOman" Of a jury, who
rendered a verdict of Guilty of Man
slaughter, called the same evening
upon the Governor, asking for par
don for the prisoner, thus showing
that while as a public officer she ad-
ministered strict justice, as a woman
she could not forget what it was to
be mercif1i and tender-hearted. This
same lady we were privileged to see,
and when we beheld her she was
acting AS a member OF the Central
Republican Committee, and holding
a conversation with the Executive
in reference to the work of the COM
ing campaign. Her husband, more
over, was candidate Of the.oPposite
party. Could there be q more ag-
gravating case: Well, what was she
like? 1t is contrary to all probability,
/ know, but As chronicles, facts
must avow that she had very sub
dued and pleasant manner, and a
winning smile, and WAS asrayed in
Year: 1871

the usual female paraphernalia of
ribbons. necklace and jaunty hat,
and looked as if she might be on her
way to the sewing circle. She was
dreadfully out of her sphere, no
doubt. but it was a place that she
filled charminrly.
Year: 1871

An agricultural friend, at our sug-
gestion, has tried an experiment
with a cellar of an outhouse, in
which, on several occasions, veget
ables have frozen, although the eel
lar was fortified against frost BY 4
process known to farmers as ''bank
ing The walls and the ceiling
we're pasted over with four or five
thicknesses of old newspapers,
curtain of the same material being
also passed over the small low win
dows at the top of the cellar. The
papers were pasted to the bare joints
overhead, leaving an air space be-
tween them and the floor. He reports
that the paper carried his roots
through last winter, though the eel
lar was left unbanked, and he is con-
fident they have made the cellar frost
proof.


We do not counsel the special use
of old newspapers for this purpose.
1t is Just as well or better to use
coarse brown paper. Whatever pa
peris used, will be necessary to sweep
down the walls thoroughly, and to
use very size to hold the paper to
stones. 1t is not necessary to press
the paper down into all the depres-
sions of the wall; every air space be
meath it is an additional defence
against the cold.-Scientitfc Amer
lean.
Year: 1871

RIBBONS RENEwED.-Wash in
cool suds made of fine soap, and
iron when damp. Cover the ribbon
with clean cloth, and pass the iron
over that. If you wish to stifen
the ribbon, dip it, while drying, into
gum arabic water.


To KEEP KNIVES FROM RUsTING.
An excellent way to keep knives
from rusting is to scour them on a
board, cross wise with some dry
brick, after having wiped them per-
fectly dry, and put them away with
out wiping off the brick dust.


How TO CLEAN Oh CLoTHs.-If
you wish to have them look new
and nice, wash them with soft fan
mel aud luke-warm water, and wipe
perfectly dry. If you want them
to look extra nice, after they are
wiped, drop a few tablespoonfuls of
milk over them,a and rub them with Il
dry cloth. .


APPLE AND TAPIoCA PUDDING.-
Put teacupful of tapioea into i
pint and half of cold water over
night. In the morning set it where
it will become quite warm, but not
cook. In the course of the forenoon
peel half dozen sour apples and
steam them until tender. Put them
in the pudding dish add a teacupful
and a half of sugar, a little salt and
Il teacupful of water to the soaked
tapioca, and pour over the apples.
Slice a lemon very thin and distri-
butte the slices over the top of the
Bake slowly three hours.
At the end Ofthat time it will be per-
feet jelly.


REMEDY FOR Hollow HoRN-I
have never known the following to
fail: Two table-spoonfuls of vinegar,
one teaspoonful each of pepper and
salt; mix and pour in the ear. Ifa
cure is not effected in few days,re-
peat the dose. If any one else has
a better remedy, 1 would like to
have them give it.-B. 0.
Year: 1871

The London Lancet recommends
the following as the best remedy yet
discovered for this most exeruci-
ating disease: 'As soon as the dis
ease is felt. put directly over the
spot fly blister about the size of
your thumb nail, and let it remain
for six hours, at the expiration of
which time, directly under the sur
face of the blister, may be seen the
felon, which can instantly be taken
out with the point of needle or
lancet"
Year: 1871

The Mobile Tribune of Thursday says:


One Of the squads OF workmen upon
the Montgomery railroad shot pelican
mp the river, in the neighborhood of where
the bridge is to cross, yesterday, measuring
nearly nine feet from the tip Of one to the
tin Of the other wing. Its pouch would
hold nearly two gallons of water
Year: 1871

MR. ALLING has notice among the New ones to-day, of interest to some no doubt. He has determined to close the Shoo-Fly Restaurant and go to Arizona City The regular patrons of the institu- ton are considering the probable effect Of departure of the proprietor and his good wife. A few contemplate immediate self destruction, and all at least imagine that, though they may still finger awhile, they will be no more use to themselves.
Year: 1871

FOR the first time in six years, there is not a woman or child in the San Pedro farming settlements, and at the rate the men are being killed, it will not be much longer until not man will be left.
Year: 1871

IT has come to our ears that mems names have
been removed from the Great Register when the
men themselves have never asked for transfers.
never left the county or even the precincts where
they reside. The worst feature of this business
is, that in the cases related to us the men are
Democrats 1t is suggested that interested Re
publicans have gone to the Clerk, looked at the
register and pointing out the name of Demo
crat here and there, said, 'that man is gone,
what are you keeping his name on this book
for?" and that the clerk, in his muddled sim
plicity, has scratched the names off without any
legal authority. Let this. be as it may, the
thing looks bad and is suggestive Of fraud, and
demands an investigation and explanation. We
warn Democrats to look to the poll lists in each
precinct and see that every name is on them,
and also on the printed Register, and any that
are not found there, send here and see if they
are on theregister in the clerks Office The op-
position are desperate and will resort to any
means to win whether fair or foul.
Year: 1871

The two candidates for Supervisor Of this dis
trict are both excellent business men, men OF
the highest character for intelligence, integrity
and social standing in the community, and so far
as the interests of the county are concerned, we
believe they would be safe in either Of the gen.
tlemen's hands. The question OF locality, how
ever is an important one, and by all principles
OF fair dealing, the supervisor shorld be given to
this end OF the district -st the coming election.
For ten years there has not been a supervisor
who resided at the county seat Ever since this
has been district, Dutch Flat and the section
above Colfax has furnished ali the supervisors
though il line is drawn between Colfax nnd
Gold Run, the vote in the two ends OF the dis
trict As nearly even. Certainly we do not intend
to accuse the people Of the northern end OF the
district of being ungenerous but we suggest to
them that they now have chance to give this
portion of the district supervisor in the person
of Mr.. Edward Walsh, who will make splendid
officer. Aside from what would be courtesy, one
of the supervisors at least should reside at the
county seat. An active, wide-awake, honest,
business supervisor residing here, such as MIR.
Walsh would make would see many things 60
ing on around the Court House and Hospital
buildings that would startle the Board when
laid before it, and lead to demanded REFORMS.
1t is all nice to know that things look well when
the distant Supervisors Grand Jurors arrive,
and it is easy done, but if we had Supervisor
here all the time, things would be right all the
time, or a change would take place. Vast ad-
vantages would accrue to the county, the poor
and the taxpayers by having Supervisor reside
here and these things should be taken into deep
consideration by voters of all parties in the dis
trict.