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Year: 1873


All is not dark the sky may lower,
The sun refuse to shine.
But dwelling in each mortal hour
Is some good gift divine.
There is no life but hath its woe,


No soul but hath its pain;
let pleasures come, and SORROWS go,
As sunshine follows rain.
Look where we may, some good we see,
Some joy to conquer ill
Yet though in grief perchance we be,
Hope fingers with us still.
God gave us all that strength that yields
Us fortitude to bear,
And gave us bravery that shields
Our heart from deep despair,
He placed us here to act our part,
And do the best we can,
And show that goodness of heart
And virtue make the man.
Though trouble come and ills assaiI,
He acts the noblest part,
Who turns his full face to the gale,
And keeps a steadfast heart.
So let us all, what'er betide,


Like brave men bear the breast,
And stand fast by virtues side,


TO Heaven leave the rest.
Year: 1873

A case of some interest regarding
what constitutes marriage in its legal
aspects was decided on Friday by Judge
Treat in st. Louis The case was that
of Mrs. Carrie Holabird against the At
lantic Mutual Life Insurance Company,
which was recently decided in favor of
the plaintiff in the United States Circuit
The defendant filed motion for a new
trial. The principal ground of the mo-
tion was that the Court erred in allow
ing the plaintiff to testify to the fact of
the marriage ceremony before an author
lied clergy man without the production
at the same time of the clergyman's GER
tificate of the marriage, or a certified
copy thereof from the records of the re-
corder. The judge decided the case by
oyerruling the motion. His reasons for
this were, substantially, that while a
clergyman may neglect his duty in not
keeping a record of the marriage, or
sending certified copy of the marriage
certificate to the county recorder, his
failure to do so does not inValidate the
legality of the marriage ceremony or
render the marriage unlawful, null. and
void. The best evidence of the mar
riage is the direct testimony of those
who We're present when the contract
was entered into. who, as sworn wit
nesses in the case, testify to the fact it.
self
Year: 1873

STARTING A New DAHY.-The Fitch
burg (Mass.) Sentinel, an excellent pa
per, is going to start a daily. We are
glad of it. We started a daily once.
We ran it nearly four months, and then
paused Since then we take a lively in
terest in such enterprises. We have no
doubt the Sentinel people will make the
daily work, and we are quite positive it
will make them work. A man who goes
through life without having started a
daily paper misses rare and valuable
experience. Falling down stairs with a
cook-stove will hardly compensate him.


-DGn6uTy Necs.
Year: 1873

Retrenchment and reform are very
good watchwords. They have an. excel
lent sound, and take we'll with the peo-
Pile Carried into practice, however,


they are much better. Whatever may
be the professions and promises of par
ties and candidates, it is generally dis
covered. if they succeed in obtaining
power, that all men are pretty much
alike. We can see-everybody can see
that retrenchment and reform are needed
everywhere. We need them In our vii
lage, our town, our State and nation.


When we say retrenchment and reform
are needed, we mean on intelligent re-
form and an economical administration
OF the business of the village, town,
State and nation. Everything that is
called retrenchment or reform is not
Year: 1873

JUST AS EAsY.-Most everybody thinks
he can edit a newspaper. The Troy
Times permitted an enthusiastic young
lawyer to try his hand at reporting the
court proceedings the other day. lie
sailed in fearlessly and secured in one way
and another the following interesting
and important facts


Court opened at p. m. by Crier Ford,
in proclamation IN his usual happy style.
Order of reference granted on applica-
ton of Irwin Hayne District Attorney
said something to Judge did not hear
what. Green and Wooster held long
cOnsultation-did not amount to much.
Wooster said he was sure of one thing
he did not say what.


The gentleman who performed this
feat is going to Yale to "study for an
editor. Novices beware.
Year: 1873

ACCIDENT ON THE Whitehall AND
PLATTsBURGH RAILROAD The down
mail train yesterday, just north of I'll
conderoga, ran over a COW, the train
passing over and dragging her some
ways. The mail car was partially
thrown from the track. 1t was very
fortunate there was not serious acci-
dent. The mail car was soon put upon
the track, and the train made its con-
nection at Leicester Junction with the
down mail on the Rutland road.
Year: 1873

A New ROUTE TO THE WEsT.-The
new route for heavy freights West, COM
bining water and rail and requiring only
two transfers-from New York and
New England to Richmond by water,
thence by rail via the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad to the Ohio river, thence
by water again to all points on the Mis-
sissippi and its tributaries-is attracting
attention among business men, and is
likely to be patronized literally. The
granite of the Maine and other quarries
for use in the new government build
ings in the Mississippi valley, promises
to be transported by this route, which
seems to have the advantage of cheap
ness in its favor Upon the completion
of the link of railroad between Baltimore
and Richmond, the connection between
the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi
river will be complete.
Year: 1873

How TO CATCH RATs.-A correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Gazette thinks he
has made a valuable discovery in the art
of rat catching. He says:


"The rats have troubled me very bad
ly for the past year. So purchased a
wire cage trap and put good bait in it.
For month, at least, no rats went in.
At last two ventured to enter. The
thought occurred to me to save these
alive | did so and at night when | set
the trap again, Iput these captured ones
in. The next morning had eight more
in the trap. put the ten in a barrel
with some water in it, but one cold
morning they all got out excepting one
that had previously been put back in the
trap. This one, however, did not live !;
and so | was out of live rats again. My
wire trap now stood two weeks without
catching any. | then set a steel trap,
and was fortunate enough to catch one.
This saved alive, and put into the cage
trap. | now commenced catching from
four to ten every morning. am always
very careful to save one alive 10 entice
others to come in. In one week caught
ferty-four. They are at last becoming
scarce, and now get only one or two a
night. Last night | got two. One of
these, while in the trap, was delivered
of ten young ones.


ssThis is my success. / hope every
other one that may try the plan may
have the same good luck"
Year: 1873

The people Of the town seem 10 be perfectly par
alyze1 By the enomity OF the disaster, and are
totally inactive. The suspense attending the
and some even wish the worst would come al
once, and II no towl s left the agony at least will
be over. The people are simply watching and
waiting IN dread Of the breaking up OF the gorge
At McCalrs FelSy, which many believe must come
ere long, when the worst viii be met and real
lied.


a dispatch from Port Deposit, dated eleven
eclock last night, states the water was falling
Year: 1873

DO fish hear % Is the interrogation
which starts off an article going the rounds
of the press. And very exciting one it
must be, we think. as even the masses have
got hold of it. Near neighboring pond iS
painted on board Don't fish hear go
which may be the inquiry of an anxious but
humble seeker, or may be the eontemptaous
exclamation Of one who has no patience With
ignorance.
Year: 1873

Recently, according to IA writer in Good
Words. a clergyman undertook to inyesti-
gate tins matter, and, on asking the wife Of
one Of his stoking parishioners the reason
that she and her husband absented them
selves from church, he was astonished to
find that she was occupied during the whole
Of Sunday in securing her husband. That
unhappy man, having had no time to wash
during the week, was necessarily excessively
black by the time Sunday came around and
his wife, after devoting the whole day to
securing him with scrubbing brush, was
satisfied if she could bring him to a light
brown color by night
Year: 1873

NOBLE CoNDucr or Doc.-Among the
vessels which went ashore during the Au-
gust gales on the Nova Scotia coast was the
schooner J. {. Smith Of Nellheet, which
vent on near Mt. Mademoiselle Soon after
She struck several of the crew swung ashore
on the staysail halliards Four were drown
ed. One young man was washed overheard,
and while yainly struggling in the surf was
seen by large Newfoundland. dog, which
was at the top of the hlufi, fully fifteen feet
above the water. In an instant he plunged
over the precipice and in almost as little
time as il takes to tell it was ont among the
rocks and undertow. He disappeared from
sight Tor several minutes, and when next
seen had gotten his own body partly over a
rock, backwards, and while almost strangl ed
himself was dragging forth with indomitable
grlp me drowning youth. The struggle wa,
successful Both boy and dog were saved
although nearly exhausted when they reach
ed the shore
Year: 1873

LEcTURE.-Rev. M. b. Starr, whom it will be
remembered created quite stir in San Fran
cisco some months ago, by his lectures on the
Chinese question. delivered a lecture on the
subject Of Chinese in America at the Court
House here last Tuesday evening. We can say
to the credit of the lecturer that his manner of
treating the subject was, to at least quite in
teresting, and from the attention given we think
others were equally interested. To BE sure, it
is hard to find ainan who can tell more in re-
gard to the evils inflicted upon the laborng
masses of California, and on the morals and
general welfare of the whole people on account
of the presence of these moon-eyed barbarians
than most people in California already know,
but at the same time, since we of California
are almost unanimously opposed to having them
among us to deplete our country of its treas
ures, and corrupt the morals of our people,
without giving anything or doing anything TO +,
the good of the country in return. Since we are
all nearly eagerly demanding that steps should
be taken to rid US of the evil, there can be no
harm done by the agitation of the question, Ell
ther by lectures or otherwise. We only wish
the lecturer had had AN audience in numbers
worthy the subject and the way it was handled
Year: 1873

called graceful movements and takes its natural
ways. Nor do believe that anyone could sep
arate those children who have practiced calls
themes frcni those who have not by observing
their movements out of school, Taere are
many movements in these exercises that our
young ladies have to pass through which are SO
vulgar and disgusting to behold that to describe
them with my pen would cause a blush on my
cheeks. He says children nvariable love
them, but here he is partly mistaken, for l
have taught in some of the t-class schools of
the county, in which calisthenics had been
taught by experienced and first-cass teachers.
and will venture to say that one-half Of the
pupils would rather not practice them at all,
and the other half would not care about prac-
ticing them every day, but would like to change
occasionally. To have children 90 through
these movements in the warm summer days
which we have, when sweat will trace itself
down their cheeks without any exertion at all
think shows heartless teacher who does not re-
gard the comfort and welfare OF his pupils.
think scholars in playing ball, jumping wrest-
ling, attending to their work at home, ETC., call
into action all the muscles of the body-what
more do they need? He maintains that those
scholars who do not practice calsthenics are apt
to grow round-shouldered and narrow chested


Now, some of the reasons why SO many become
round-shouldered are because they fold their
arms in front of them, lean over to study and
write, and do not sit upright on their benches


l think very few children who live in the coun-
try and exercise as country children do. who are
not hereditary to it, or do not expose them
selves to the inelemency of the weather, will be-
come narrow-chested. He says the law will not
be changed pertaining to caisthenics, for the
enlightened public sentiment is in favor of it,.
All have to say in regard to this is, he has Ell
ther conversed very little with the country peo-
pie, or he considers them not enlightened


YOu Know
Year: 1873

GRAND TINE A CoMING.-We are informed
that the Gold Run Brass Band have accepted
an invitation from the Auburn Brass Band to
come in body, with their instruments, to Au-
burn, next Friday and Saturday, and unite with
them and other invited musical talent, among
which are Prof Carmichael and II. Todd, of
Stockton Chas Gwynn of San Francisco; N


Brown, of Wood land; l.. Ellis of Sacramento;
Jas Reinhart, of Georgetown; c. n. Nelson OF
Marysville and J. B. Carder of Iowa Hill, in
having an old-fashioned musical jubilee. AS
near as we can learn, the programme is to come
off about as follows: The Gold Run Band will
come down on the morning train, Friday. They
will be met at the depot by the Auburno band,
and escorted to town in barouche drawn by
six dapple gray horses-Beek tmpy to manipu-
late the ribbons-and after passing through the
principle streets will draw up at the American.
During the day the bands will discourse some
of their best music ON the Plaza, and at night


all the dancers and lovers of good music in
town are invited to unite with them at Music
Hall, when the grandest ball of the times will be
had, the dancers keeping time TO fifty pieces of
the best music, and all for one dollar ticket


The supper will be gotten up for the occasion
at the American, and Billy promises to do his
best All money over expenses will be donated
to the Auburn public school fund On Saturday
the bands will play all day in and about town,
and in the evening will give general serenade
and close the jubilee by furnishing the guests
of the Auburn band, a supper at the American
Hotel. The expenses of the supper will be paid
from the funds of the band, and not taken from
the nrnceelS of the dance
Year: 1873

The QUEEN BEE. When queen bee
IS forciblv taken away from the hive
the bees which are near her at the time
do not AZ pe,r sensible of her absen
and the lubors of the hive are carrie d
on as usual for time. 1t is seldom be-
fore the lapse of an hour that the work
ing bees begin to manifest any symp-
toms OF uneasiness. They are .hen oh
served to quit the larvae which they had
been feeding one run about in great ag-
itation to and fro; and on meeting such
OF their companions as are not yet
aware of the disaster which has befallen
them, communicate the in;el!irenca by
crossing their antcnur and striking light
~ with them. The bees which receive
the news become in turn agitatcd, and
spread the alarm further. All the in
habitants now rush forward, eagerly
seeking their lost queen. But fndin =
search useless, they appear to become
resigned to their misfortune, the tumult
subsidies, and if there are worker eggs
or young larvae in the cell, preparations
are made to supply the loss by raising
n new queen, and the usual labors of
the hive are resumed. .lmericnn Bee
journal.
Year: 1873

The subject of borrowing and lend
ing came up in the course Of conver-
sation with subscriber living near
ithaca, when he suddenly recollected
fanny reminiscence of that character
which had happened in his own neigh
borhood. He said he had neighbor
whose family were great borrowers but
not SO distinguished as pay masters
they were always borrowing but seldom
if ever returning the exact amount bor-
rowed. An old Quaker lady, another
neighbor, who had endured these inva-
sions for long time patiently, hit upon
a very philosophical mode Of eventually
putting stop to the nuisance. Keep
ing her own counsel, the next time her
good man went to town, he had sepa-
rate and express order to purchase
pound of the best tea and also new
canister to put it in; as he knew she
already had plenty of tea and also a
canister, he was puzzled to determine
what the lady wanted of more tea and
new canister, but his questioning and
reasonings elected nothing more than
repetition Of the order. at


Jim, did I not tell thee to get me a
pound of the best tea and new canis-
ter? Now go along and do as I bid
thee" .......-..


And go along he did, and when he
came home at night the tea and canis-
ter were his companions. The old lady
took them from him with an amused
expression ON her usual placid features,
and depositing the tea IN the canister
set it on the shelf for special use. It
had not long to wait, for the borrowing
neighbor had frequently use for the
aromatic herb. The good old lady
loaned generously, emptying back into
the canister any remittance of borrowed
teas which the neighbors conscience in
clined her to make. Time went on and
after something less than the one hund-
redth time of borrowing the neighbor
appeared for &c just one more drawing
of tea" when the oft-visited tea-canis-
ter was brought out and found to be
empty, and the good old lady and oblig-
ing neighbor, was just one pound of
tea poorer than when she bought tho
new canister which now only remained
to tell the story. Then she made a
little Characteristic speech, perhaps the
first in her life; she said: Thou seest
that empty canister. filled it for thee
with pound of my best tea and have
lent it all to thee in driblets and put
into it all thou hast sent me in return,
and none but thyself hath taken there
from or added unto it, and now thou
seest it empty; therefore I will say to
thee, thou hast borrowed thyself out
and I can lend thee no more"
Year: 1873

. A One of our exchanges gives the
following conundrum: "Why is it that
aa,young fellow and his girl can sit in
the parlor until after midnight without
making noise enough for the old folks
TO hear them through the partition, but
can t sit in public place five minutes
without annoying the whole house with
their gigYline and talk?'
Year: 1873




The PosrTloN OF HOUSE. Houses
on streets running nearly north and
south are for preferable to those located
on those going east and west in q sani-
tary estimate. In the first, here at the
north of the equator, the sun shines
brilliantly in the forenoon on the front,
and with nearly equal force in the after
noon on the rear. Thus dampness is
expelled and the whole edifce is dry
and the air far purer for its solar ex-
posure. If house is on an east and
west street, those fronting north are
decidedly the best for residence, be-
cause the suns action on the yard, the
kitchen, and usual regions of neglected
accumulations, purifies and inodifes
the humid atmosphere that is sure to
predominate in yards and the back side
of houses whose rear is north of the
street. Thus circumstanced, the back
rooms are never so pleasant, cheerful
or economically warmed in winter or
ventilated in summer, as when on the
south side. Opening ON the street, the
front Of such gets both light and air by
reason of the frequent swing Of the
front door. s e =. Its's
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 q
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention OF consum'
Year: 1873

A SOUND MIND.-Health of minds is
very closely dependent upon health OF
body. The brain is the organ Of thought
and feeling, as truly as the eye is the Or
gan of seeing. Thus the physical state OF
the brain in large measure determines
what the man is, both morally and intel
lectually. The health and condition Of the
brain, to a very great extent, are proper
tionate to the health and condition of the
system generally. The brain demands more
nutrition than any other part Of the body
This is owing to the peculiarly rapid molec,
ular changes which its substance under
goes. in the course Of emotional or menta
action. The brain is also remarkably sus
ceptible to the presence of impurities il
blood. From all this we see the valuable
ness of a medicine such as DR.. Gotthet
Fisch's Bitters, which both stimulates thu
digestion, thus furnishing abundant nutri
ton, and, at the same time, stimulate
the excretories thus insuring pure nutri
| ton!


This subject continued next week unde
''DrolosiHess after Eating"
Year: 1873

Next to the grass and trees, or perhaps
before. the women of England have
had the honor to interest the Shah. Re-
garding them naturally from the oriental
point Of view, his majesty has made a mum.
ber of remarks, which will scarcely bear
repetition in print. The prevailing fashion
of dress has given him abundant OppOr-
tunity to compare their attractions with
those of his harem. For three he is reported
canceling the bargain and returning to
England if, after fair trial, they dislike
Persia. One Of the three told me she
was inclined to accept it if the money
could be settled on herself, and if she could
feel sure ABOUT getting back. But think
no bargain has been closed. At Lady
Granville's party, at the Foreign Office, on
Tuesday night, it was an American lady
Or, as some say, two or three fair Ameri-
cans-who had the honor to attract this
noble savage's regard. At one or two din
ners he has found himself with a lady on
each side Of him, and this is practice
which he declares himself unable to under.
stand. They. on the other hand, have
been enlightened by experience as to some
customs which prevail in Paris, but
have hitherto been unknown in Eng.
land. One lady on rising from the
table found her lap filled with morsels from
the royal plate, which, as she supposed,
he had found unpalatable and quietly dis.
posed OF in this way. Another beheld sun.
dry viands from time to time, during dinner,
transferred from the Shahs plate to her
own. There is even a story that he took
such violent dislike to spinach, when it
was served to him for the first time. that he
elected it from his mouth on to the plate Of
his neighbOr. But to all these, as to most
of the stories, there is another side. The
charitable and we'll informed explain that
these contributions were meant as marks of
royal favor. and were in the height of good
breeding, since among the orientals it is
the custom to bestow on a guest the choicest
morsels from the hosts portion, and king
always stands in the relation Of host to
everybody else.
Year: 1873

Their. is considerable talk among railroad
pen ana citizens generally of getting up a
vigilance committee for the purpose of rid
ding the city of three card monte men and
bad characters generally. This feeling has
been aroused by the brutal and unprovoked
stabbing Of young Atwood by one of that
class OF men. 1t was told us last evening
that ono monte man had received
a note. yesterday, signed "Vigilanres,"
commanding him and his companions
to leave the city within twenty-four
hours. We do not vouch for the
truth Of this. but certain it is that
three monte men left for the East today
and two for the West. A meeting of rail
road men is said to have been called at the
Union Pacific shops this afternoon for the
purpose Of taking into consideration the
question whether these monte men are
going to run this city any longer or not


If such meeting was held we have not
learned what action was taken. Men who
contemplate organizing vigilance commit.
tee would do WELL even before taking the
first step, to become thoroughly convinced
that law and justice have winged their
tight from this city entirely.-Omaha Bee.
Year: 1873

The newspapers have lately contained
an account, in elaborate detail, Of surgi.
cal operation of q most striking character
lately performed in Europe. 1t is re-.
ported, and . full description Of tho
method Of work is given, that the top of
ono mans head was taken off, his brain
removed, and the brain Of another man
substituted the operation was in every
way successful, the individual supplied
with q new brain recovered health and
strength, and is now himself again save
that be has the thoughts. sentiments and
affections Of the man whose brain his bod
carries.-Ex.


What became Of the man whose brain
was given to the other chap? We sup
pose they sent him to the insane asylum