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Year: 1871

The influence of good example is
far-reaching; for our experience and
conflicts with the world lead us at times
to indulge misanthropic sentiments, and
charge all men with selfish and impure
motives. The play Of pride, prejudice,
and passion, and the esgerness mani
tested by the great majority OF men to
advance their own interests, often at the
expense of others, and in violation Of
the golden rule, cause us to look with
suspicion On the best intents Of others:
Arrogance, hypocrisy, treachery, and
violence, every day outrage justice, till
we are almost disposed to dislTust human
aatnre, and become discouraged. Hnt
amid ell that is sad and disheartening
In this busy, noisy world, now and then
there is presented to Us hfe Of such
uniform virtue, that We recognize in It a
character that brings hope for the per
feet development and ultimate regenera-
tion of our race. Such characters are
nreeious. and such examples should be
beld M to the world for It's admiration
and imitation; they shodld be snatehed
from oblivion and treasured in the hearts
and tbosehts Of all who are in process OF
forming habits and maturing character.
Year: 1871

Sir Isaac Newton was urged by one of
his friends to marry; he excused himself
by saying that he had no time to court
wife. His friends said they would as
sist by sending to his apartment wo-
man of worth. He thanked them for
their offer and promised to receive a
visit from her. Her friends applied to
the woman, and requested her to dis
pense with the usual ceremonies of court
ship, and wait on the philosopher, which
she consented to do. When she came
to his apartment and produced her re-
commendation, he received her politely


filled and fred his pipe, sat down by her
side, took hold OF her hand, and con-
versed on the subject. Before they had
brought the point to a close, some ques-
tions about the magnitude Of .he heav-
enly bodies struck his mind with such
force that he forgot what he was about.
He turned his eyes to heaven, took the
pipe out of his mouth with bis left hand,
and, being lost in study, without design
took the lady's left hand, which he held
in his own. and with one Of her fingers
crowded the tobacco in the bowl Of his
pipe, and held it SO long that her heart
as well as her finger took FIRE, and she in
a huff sprung up and went off, leaving
the philosopher to finish his study alone
Year: 1871




The tomb of Moses is unknown, but
the traveller slakes his thirst at the well
of Jacob. The gorgeous palace of the
wisest and wealthiest of the monarchs,
with cedar and gold and ivory, and even
the great temple of Jerusalem, hallowed
by the visible glory of the Deity himself,
are gone. But Solomon's reservoirs are
as perfect as ever. OF the ancient ar
chitecture of the Holy City not one stone
is left upon another; but the pool of
Bethsaida commands the pilgrim rev.
erehce at the present day. The columns
of Persopolis are Wondering into dust;
but its cisterns and aqueducts remain
to challenge our admiration. The golden
house is mass of ruins; but the Aqua
Claudi still pours into Rome its liquid
stream. The temple of the sun of Tad
NOR in the wilderness has fallen, but its
fountain sparkles as freshly in his rays
as when thousands of worshipers
thronged its lofty colonnades. 1t may
be that London will share the same fate
as Babylon, and nothing be left to mark
its site, save mounds of crumbling brick
work. The Thames will continue to
flow as it does now. And if any work
of art should still rise over the deep
ocean of time, we may well believe that
it will be neither apalace nor a temple,
but some vast aqueduct or reservoir
and if any name should still fash
through the mist Of antiquity it will
probably be that of the man who in his
days sought the happiness of his fellow
men rather than their glory, and linked
his memory to some great work Of
national utility and benevolence. This
is the true glory which outlives all
others, and shines with undying lustre
from generation to generation, imparting
to works something of its own immor-
tality, and in some degree rescuing
them from the ruin which overtakes the
ordinary monuments of historical tra-
dition of mere magnificence.
Year: 1871




err Reen Presented TO Queen Vie.


tOrfa. .attl


The Catholic hero of + Lothair," the
young Marquis of Butte, although adj
mitted to be the greatest catch" mat
rimonially speaking, in Great Britain,
and one of the largest landowners in
the realm, has never yet made his re-
spects to the Queen at court. This sin
gular circumstance is accounted for by
the Court journal, which states that the
young Marquis promised his mother, on
her death,bed, never to permit himself
to be presented to Queen Victoria. The
reason Of this extraordinary promise,
which the Marquis has religiously kept,
is to be found in the implacable hostility
of the Marchioness to the Queen. The
late Marchioness Of Butte was the
sister of Lady Flora Hastings, the
young and beautiful maid of honor
whom Queen Victoria, then a girl Of
eighteen, suffered, soon after her acces-
sion TO the throne, to be driven from her
presence, and hunted to death by SLAM
ders long since disproyed. The cold
and cruel conduct Of the young sover-
eign at that time the family have never
forgotten nor forgiven. When the
Queen some years ago visited Rothesay
Bay in her yacht, and lay for several
days in sight of the superb residence Of
the Marchoiness of Butte, Mount Stuart
House, the Marchioness not only re-
Trained from attempting to pay her
court to the Queen. but actually ordered
all the blinds in the windows in Mount
Stuart House to be kept closed so long
as the royal yacht lay within sight of
them. Time has not softened in the
son the bitter sense Of injustice which
hardened the mother heart. 1t is even
said that horror at the notion of being
obliged to consider Queen Victoria the
head of his church plays no small part
in inducing the Marquis of Butte to
abandon that church for the communion
of Rome.
Year: 1871

The Sun gives the following version of
the late clopement: "A merchant in town,
who has handsome wife, has had his
suspicious somewhat aroused by the inti-
macy existing between book keeper re-
Gently taken in his employ formerly an
insurance ag@nt-and the partner Of his
joys. On the evening of the 10Th instant,
about I O'Clock, an unusual hour for him
to visit his room, the merchant concluded
to take birds eye view of his domicil-
Upon approaching the door he, heard a
rustling within, and upon entering the room
the bewildered husband was somewhat
mortified to find his beloved wife and the
clerk confronting each other in great con-
fusion. The criminal lover broke out the
back window, jumped on shed, and
soon gained the street, while the enraged
husband notified his recreant wife that he
would shoot her on the spot. She asked
for time to pray, which was granted, while
the husband hunted for pistol. The wife,
doubtless believing "the prayers of the
wicked availeth nothing" cut short her
prayer, made tracks for the back door, and
soon regained an audience with her vile
seducer. A buggy was procured, and the
guilty pair rode out to the cemetery, where
a messenger was sent in town for funds to
defray the expenses incident to an elope-
ment. The sum of SIS was sent the shiver-
ing couple. The unhappy couple, she
hatless and with hardly sufficient raiment
to keep her from freezing, started for
Princeton, and kept on their way to Chico,
thence to Red Bluff The gay lothario
met an acquaintance on the road, from
whom he borrowed $40, under pretense of
having money in bank at Colusa This
proving incorrect, kilograms were sent for
his arrest for obtaining money under false
pretenses. The unhappy husband, in the
meantime, refused to be comforted He
endeavored to drown his sorrows in the
depths of the wine cup, but all of no avail.
He converted himself into a travelling
arsenal, swore vengeance on the guilty
parties, and started in pursuit. lie found
his wife secreted in private house at
Red Bluff, where she was to have remain
ed until the return of her lover, who had
crossed the river with the intention of
leaving the team at some point, for its re-
turn to Colusa. The husband and wife
embraced, cried, forgiveness was vouch-
safed, and the unfortunate pair are now
ensconced in their old home at Colusa,
while the vile invader Of the domestic
hearthstone "stands weeping alone" among
the cold hills of Northern California,
branded with infamy, and an object Of
contempt.
Year: 1871

Governor Palmer IF Illinois, in his recent
message to the Legislature, takes decided
ground against the peer of Congress to
build railroads within the States or to create
CORPORATIONS for that purpose. He is re-
ported as saying:


at is not within the power of the Fed
eral Congress to authorize the construction
of railways in State, or to create corpora
tions for that purpose, or to regulate or
control existing corporations in any way
whatever; the General Assembly should
earnestly protest against such assumption
of power by Congress
Year: 1871

We have been informed by an old resi-
dent of Shasta, that the extract from the
"Pacifc Coast Business Directory" pub
lished in the COURIER OF last week, is in
correct in the statement that the town of
Shasta was first settled in 1850, and that
the County was organized the same year.
Shasta was first settled in the Spring OILS
40 and is the Oldest town in the State north
of Hamilton Butte County. The County
of Shasta was not organized until the 10th
day of February 1851.
Year: 1871

An Odd Fellows hall is in course of erec-
ton at Igo, and we hear that it will be
dedicated next Spring with appropriate
ceremonies, on the occasion of the 51st
Anniversary of the introduction of Odd
Fellowship into the United States.
Year: 1871

James Bowie, the inventor, or discover
er, of the terrible weapon which has i'm
mortalized his name, was as utterly fear
less man as ever was born. He was full
of enthusiasm over the fatal superiority of
his knife, and discussed the matter with
all the zeal Of an inventor and erudition of
an expert A huge Spaniard once argued
the case with Bowie, claiming that the
good old "Spanish knife" was not only the
equal of the new weapon, but its superior
Finally, as wordy, and windy arguments
only hardened the opinions and confidence
of each, it was proposed and agreed to set
tie the doubt in practical way, by a knife
fight. There was no cnmity between the
two worthless; they differed, and they
wanted each to prove himself right, in a
fair and unanswerable way. The left arms
of these philosophers were tied together
from the wrists to the elbows-there was
moments pause, each nerving himself
for the horrid work; the word was given
an instant and sudden "jerk" by Bowie
gave him the chance to drive his knife in
to the body of the Spaniard, sinking it to
the very hilt. The Spaniard dropped,
Bowie catching the body on his knee
Then, to make sure work, he gave his
knife scientific turn in the Spaniard's
body; drew it out, followed by the spout
ing blood; cut the cord that bound their
arms, and allowed the dead Spaniard to
fall to the earth as indifferently as though
it had been the dead carcass Of hog
Thus was the superiority of Jim's knife
fairly, fearfully, and triumphantly vindi-
cated-and it remains unchallenged by a
rival unto this very day.
Year: 1871

UNHEALTHY FOR NEwsPAPERs.-The
climate of the Pacific coast does not appear
to be favorable to the existence of news
papers. Fifty-nine have perished on this
coast during the last year.
Year: 1871

The STEINER AUTOMATIC PORTABLE GAS
MACHINE Among the apparatus for
producing illumination gas for home con-
sumption, this machine very Justly occupies
a front rank, on account of its simplicity of
construction, it's admirable automatic ar
rangement, and the splendor of the light it
produces, while the great principles of
safety and economy are so well guarded.
The labor performed by this machine is to
force stream of air through the vapors Of
gasoline, and thus producing an illuminat-
ing gas Of as good quality as coal gas,
and at far less cost. But as simple as this
appears to be, many inventors have failed
to succeed in producing certain results. The
inventor of this machine has succeeded, as
has been demonstrated to the satisfaction
Of some of the most accomplished men Of
science of this and other States. One of
the Steiner gas machines can be seen at
the State Fair. We advise all who are in
terested in obtaining reliable and cheap
illuminator for their dwellings and stores
to give it careful examination.
Year: 1871

We publish the following statement of
Mr.. J. NJ. Carter, with the remark that
one OF the gentlemen named still
persists in the declaration that lie under
stood the Young gentleman to say. at tie
time and place named, just what was re
ported. And as we can not for a mon uent
doubt the veraci.y Of either party, we sup
pose there must have been some Misunder-
standing:
Year: 1871

= The symptoms. Of Liver


Complaint are uneasiness


and pain in the side. Some


times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The Stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
stimes alternating with lax
d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation OF haT-


ing left undone something
which ought to have been .
done. Often complaining OF


weakness, debility and low
ssn;rits Sometimes many Of
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind and body are tnee 9
most necessary requisites to promote connubiat
happiness Indeed, without these tho journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns to tho Wow, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

Chief Judge DAILY of the Common Pleas
filed an opinion, yesterday in the case Of Bomanjee
Byramjee Colsh the Parsee lunstc. Application was
lately made for the transfer of Colah the Lunac
Asylum here to the hands Of his fatherinaw, who de-
sired TO carry him his country in the hope that
the society Of his friends and the Of his native
land might restore his clouded faculties The appca-
ton ws opposed the ground that the voyage would
be injurious him that his relatives opposed his
turn, and that the Court had no power TO remove n
lunatc beyond its Jurisdiction Judge DAILY oyerrued
remove In proper case but the evidence submitted
upon the motion insufficient to determine whether
he should be removed not he has directed that Drs


DartOn Vance, Hammond, Cymer and ,Gescheidt shall
meet at Asylum and after examination Of COah


ach shall report the Court whether In his Judgment


removal is not. The expenses OF the five
phy named to be paid out OF the funds OF


unsc in the hands of his committee The refused
the application ~ transfer the property Of the unatic
given by the wife of Coah until and unless the Court
Should nay decide to ColAh to his native land.
Year: 1871

The examination of witnesses in the BOnard
will case was continued before Surrogate Hutchings
yesterday. Dr. Charles Kaemmeir testified that he
acquainted with MI Bonard from 1859 to 1885 he
very poor clothes and dressed In sOvenly manner he
walked like with articulation in his joints and
lived like poor, miserable beggar; he worked hard
housecleanng and putting down carpets and used to
carry bundles pieces Of iron and lead pipe through the
Streets witness had several conversations with him on
politics and religion he thought that priests and re


gion had created an Immense amount of trouble In
the word he was a deist and believed that after
death the soul goes into the body OF an ANIMAL


ne tnouFnt that animals much better than the
Jory OF men, he did not appear 10 have had much early
SdHaeau0n opt had read considerable and had sharp
JuoRuent ON hs crossexaminatDn the witness. In re-


ply TO the queston "Do believe In the existence Of
Goa VINO VIII punish false swearing T. said that he be
AeVe1 N supreae Being. but did not believe u The
Year: 1871

An Appeal for Aid.


New YORK, January 3O.-The news
Of the capitulation OF Paris, though
anticipated for several days, caused con-
siderable excitement among our Ger
man fellow citizens. Most OF the public
places where Germans congregate were
yesterday crowded by men who met
there as friends to discuss the prospects
of the war. The story OF the contem-
plated restoration Of the Bonapartists
by the German Government is entirely
discredited in German circles, but it is
believed the French people will be left
10 form new Government after they
have accepted the terms Of peace offered
by the Germans after final surrender.
The opinion, however, prevails general
ly among the Germans that the French
will not be able to maintain republic.
The news of the surrender has deep
ened the depression that has for some
time been felt by the French residents
of this city. 1t was not expected by
them, as the news Of the past two or
three days tending to show that the
crisis was near at hand had been con-
sidered doubtful, as coming from Prus-
sian sources. 1t is still insisted by
many Frenchmen that, on the basis OF
the cession OF territory, the terms will
not be accepted, and that the war will
be continued until the French people
are enabled to drive the invaders from
their soil by new armies to be formed
A prominent Metropolitan journal,
this morning, says: Now that the
war is virtually it not formally closed,
it is high time for a concerted effort to
mitigate the sufferings of its surviving
victims, and suggests a prompt
organization in this city for a
systematic and vigorous effort to
bring the needs of the wounded, the sick,
the houseless, the foodless myriads
home to every American hearth, adding
that if the movement be properly in.
augurated here almost every city and
village incur broad land will generously
respond to it. The writer says that
Year: 1871

A RE Plugging Teeth for Cash from one to
"A three dollars each cavity Of decay, and
deiy competition in all dental operations
Nitrous Oxide gas given free. Call at E}s Main
street mylT
Year: 1871

Porteutous HniInciuation Of an Insane


Woman-She ls Believed TO Have Ignited


Her Own Funeral Pyre.


An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Meeks,
at Portchestcr, Westchester county, on the charred
remains OF spinster named Mary Ann Slater who
was burned to death during the preceding night
From the testimony elected it seems that the
ceased has been slightly deranged for some
years past and had frequently expressed the
belief that she was destined to he burned
alive. While living with the family of her brother,
Harvey Slater, the deceased had long occupied u
room on the second story OF barn situated imme-
diately IN the rear OF his dwelling. and into which
apartment she seldom, II ever, introduced q light.
Shortly after twelve O'Clock yesterday morn
Of Gre, which Immediately awoke her brother,
was wrapped in dames. The Fire Department was
quickly on the spot but as the building named
being fast consumed 1t required all their energies to
to considerable extent. As the deceased was seen
IL is supposed that she Deliberately
sought her room, thus inviting a terrible
DEATH as her blackened ana roasted trunk was SUBJ
place where her bed had stood up stairs. Toe re-
mains presented a shocking spectacle, the limbs
being completely burned away and the trunk itself
SO horribly dlsfgured as to be totally beyond ldeni-
the mead the sex alone was determined, and a small
piece OF the dress which the unfortunate woman wore
on the previous day lett no room for doubt as TO
Identity. While the verdict OF the jury implied that
death was accidental, there are many who believe
that the premises were fred by the deceased. The
loss or property IS about two thousand five nun
dred dollars. on which there Is no insurance. De-
ceased was about nfty years OF age.
Year: 1871

A Coon REASON the late Ply
mouth Church picnic Mr. Bcecher was
asked why he did not dance There is
but one reason" he Replied dom,
know how. The only dancing ever did
was when my father furnished the music.
and used me for the Hddle. l took all
the steps then
Year: 1871

A certain clergyman from the northern
section of Vermont several years since
visited Now York. and was invited to fill q
city pulpit. He had never had the privil-
ege of listening to a church organ and
was totally nnacquainted with the fashion
of hiring tew vocalists to do the singing
for the congregation. Giving out his hymn,
the organist played fancy prelude, and in
the highest style of the art, the choir rem
dered the four verses. Addressing the
throne in fervent invocation, which stamp
ed him man Of intellect and power with
his audience, he coolly re-opened the hymn
book, ard. turning to page exclaimed /:
1.-The audience will now join with me in
singing good old Methodist hymn, and
those persons running that bag of wind in
the gallery will please not interrupt
Year: 1871

A Correspondent of the New York Sun.
writing from Hartford. Connecticut says:


The Republicans here have dropped Grant
as completely as they did Andrew johnson
after his veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill
He is no longer thought OF as member Of
the party. They have even ceased to blush
at his wretched exhibitions of himself. or for
his absurd unfitness for the executive Office
Every Republican newspaper in the State is
out strongly irreconciahly against his infa-
nous San Domingo annexation swindle. and
indignant condemnation Of the assault upon
Sumner.
Year: 1871

A young lady once observed, ..When l
go to the theatre. am very careless of my
dress, as the audience are too attentive to
the play to observe ,Hy wardrobe but when
90 to church am very particular in my
outward appearance, as most people go
there to see how their neighbors dress and
deport thmeselves.''
Year: 1871

Alexander Hamilton once said to an init
mate friend "Men give me some credit
for genius. All the genius have. lies just
in this. When have subject in hand
study it profoundly. Day and night it is
before RE. explore it in all its bearings.
My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then
the effort which l make. the people are
pleased to call the fruit of genius. 1t is
the fruit Of labor and thought
Year: 1871

LARGE FARMs.-One of the rocks on
which many fail. is to have too much land.
1t is much safer to be crowded for room-to
have no room to plant anything. a. is often
emarked-than to be spread out to the ex-
tent We commonly see. This il true of
rented land; but more particularly 90 of
ground which We buy. 1t is very common
thing for one who has thousand dollars to
buy land worth two. mortgage half; and
leaving little spare cash to work on. The
land is but half cultivated, and the resulting
crops but one half what they ought to be,
while the labor is double what Half the
ground would have called for. Here there
is four-fold waste; and instead. of paying
but six or seven per cent. for money. it
brings up the actual cost to near twenty.
under which one soon fails.


For our part, We are rather in favor of a
young man starting in life with but little
cash capital. buying farm with some mort
cages on it. providing he has determine
tiOn to pay that mortgage off as soon a. he
can turn round. Thousands of men now
own property who would never had done 90
but for the necessity of thus exerting them
selves. Their earnings would have went
some how away. 1: is hard to resist family
opportunities when everything is dear; but
when there 10 something which must be met
the disposition to savs receives strong sup
port from the glaring fact.- Phila. Press.
Year: 1871

IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR HoLpEN.-
In impeaching and driving from Office into
perpetual disgrace this cowardly and black
hearted tyrant. who availed himself of Fed
eral protection to Cypress and cruelty per-
secute his own people, the Senate of North
Carolina has done honor to the State and
set an example that will be remembered for
all time to come. And the circumstances
make still more glorious the act. They
have taught the lesson that freeman can
never be trampled on with impunity, and
they have done it in the face of Federal
threats and frowns. Verify. the day of ret
ribution is dawning. and that all who have
insulted and outraged helpless people,
may feel its scathing wrath. is our fervent
prayer.