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Year: 1876

We halted and formed square in the
middle of the plain. As we were per.
forming this movement bugler of the
Fifty-frst who had been out with skir-
mishers and had mistaken our square
for his own, exclaimed: "Here | am
again, safe enough" The words were
scarcely out of bis mouth when round
shot took off his head and spattered the
whole battalion with his brains, the
colors and the ensigns in charge Of them
coming in for an extra share. One OF
them, Charles Fraser, fine gentleman
in speech and manner, raised laugh
by drawling out: "How extremely dis
gusting!" A second shot carried of
six Of the mems bayonets. a third broke
the breast-bone of a lance sergeant
(Robinson). whose piteous cries were
anything but encouraging to his youth
full comrades. The soldiers belief that
"every bullet has its billet" was
strengthened by another shot striking
Ensign Cooper, the shortest man in the
regiment, and IN the very center OF the
square. These casualties were the affail
of a second. We we're now ordered to
lie down. Our square, hardly large
enough to hold us when standing up
right, was too small for US in a recum-
bent position. Our men lay packed to-
gether like herrings in barrel. Not
finding vacant spot seated myself on
drum. Behind me was the colonePs
charger, which, with his head pressed
against mine, was mumbling my epau-
lette, while I patted his cheek. Sud-
denly my drum capsized and was
thrown PROSTATE, with the feeling of a
blow on the right cheek, l put my
hand to my head, thinking half my face
was shot away, but the skin was not
even abraded. A piece Of she'll had
struck the horse on the nose exactly
between my hand and my head, and
killed him instantly. The blow re-
ceivcd was from the embossed crown on
the horses bit "A Soldiers Diary.
Year: 1876

On March 29th. 1S4S, remarkable
phenomenon occurred. The preceding
winter had been intensely cold. and the
ice formed on Lake Erie was unusually
thick. In the warm days of early
spring, this mass of ice was loosened
around the shores Of the lake and de-
tached from them. During the fore
noon of the day named, stiff easterly
wind moved it up the lake. A little
before sunset, the wind chopped sud-
denly round and blew a gale from the
west. This brought the vast field of
ice back again with such tremendous
force that it filled in the neck Of the
lake and its outlet so as to form very
effective dam, that caused remarkable
diminution in the outflow of the water.
Of course it needed but little time for
the Falls to drain of the water below
this dam. The consequence was, that
on the morning of the following day,
the river was nearly half gone. The
American channel had dwindled to a
deep and narrow creek. The British
channel seemed to have been smitten
with quick consumption, and to be
fast passing away. Far up from the
head of Goat Island and out into the
Canadian rapids, and from the foot of
Goat Island out beyond the old Tower
to the deep channel of the Horseshoe
fall, the water was gone. The rocks
were bare, black and forbidding. The
roar of Niagara had subsided to moan.
This extraordinary syncope of the
waters lasted all the day, and night
closed over the strange scene. But
during the night the dam gave way.
and the next morning, the river was
restored in all its strength, beauty and
majesty.-From, an Illustrated Paper
on Niagara" IN the Midsummer
Holiduv Number" of Scribner.
Year: 1876

A player performing the Ghost in
"Hamlet" badly. was much hissed
but, after bearing it some time, be put
the audience in good humor by stepping
forward and saying: Ladies and gen.
tlemen. I am extremely sorry that my
humble endeavors to please you are un-
successful. but if you are not satisfied ]
must give up the ghost"
Year: 1876

From the Washington Republican,


The people do not look to the New York
Times or to Harper's Journal Of Civilization
for their estimate of public men for sign
by which they are to be guided in the dis
charge of their duties as citizens. The
Times may dislike Senator Conkling, and
Harpers' Weekly may give utterance to its
peculiar ideas, nodded in personal prejudice,
and yet the people will move directly on in
their work Of selecting President for the
next four years, needless of their attempts
to control their action. They will learn in
due time that they can neither shape nor
control the popular judgment. Their ut
terances will serve but single purpose in
the future. They will he treasured up in
tho armament of the enemies of the Repub-
lican cause to be used against him who in
spite of their revilings has been honored by
the people.
Year: 1876

pont on the RhGtium PrOmOntory, he
tween which and the Sigean lay the
Grecian ships. Homer tells us that the
ships of Ajax occupied one end of the
fleet, and those of Achilles the other
leach trusting in his own strength
The fact that the mound of Achilles
Hes at the other extremity of the bay
where lay the fleet of the Myrmidons
who followed Achilles to the war, is
interesting in this connection, inasmucl
as 1t may have given rise to the trad-
ton that jax also was buried near his
ships, and is at the same time pre-
slmptive proof of the truth of the tra-
dltIon, as it would be the natural place
for the hero to have been buried.


We took our lunch on the mound
and then set out to cross the valley of
the Scamander to the mound of Achilles.
Here for the first time my fond dream
was realized, and | found myself
'galloping over the plains of Troy"
would not by any means have YOU sup
pose that on Il sudden was awakened
from revery to find such was the case.
On the contrary | should he glad to
impress You with the force of the argu-
ments necessary to convince nv sturdy
charger that he was treadinc in the
footsteps of the heaven descended steeds
of Achilles, and that it would be emf
nently becoming in him, and agreeable
to me if he would initiate their ex-
ample. After some time he appeared
convinced and ''began to ply his lusty
SincwS, and we We're bounding over
the plain. | will SAY for his credit that
when he did get started he went very
well. The plain is here some four miles
wide should Judge. and we made it in
very good time. 1t was Mr. Trivicrs
first experiment in horseback riding
and we left him far in the rear. but as
he was always in sight in the open
plain, We pressed on until we came to
the Scamander.


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Year: 1876

FRIDAY, April THE markets are rather quiet
to-day. Pork and lard are firm and show no change
in prices. Sugars are very firm to-day and the de-
mand is good Butter is rather unsettled. There is
large quantity of poor quality in the market,
while the fine lots are scarce and demand good prices
dealer said to-day that he could sell butter all the
way from Is to SIC % fb "a good wide range.
Year: 1876

Almost daily some discovery is announced which
is astonishing alike for its simplicity and its great
value. Such is the invention by which the Forest
Tar Co. are enabled to utilize pure tar medicine.
Its great healing power has long been recognized but
not much used heretofore, because of the inconven


ence of handling tar in its crude state Under the
name of Forest Tar is put up in various forms suit


able for taking internally and convenient for outward
application. Ask your druggist for these prepaIa-
tioDs write the Forest Tar Co., Portland, Me for
information. oct15sn9m
Year: 1876

THE bill introduced by Mr.. Sherman in the
Senate a few days since is well calculated to
put an end to the allowance of fraudulent
claims similar 10 that lobbied through by Mr.
Pendleton. The bill enacts that after a
claim has been examined and disallowed by
the head of department, it shall not be
again submitted to him. That is to say, it
prevents minister from reviewing The de-
cisons of his predecessors. Whenever such
claim is presented, It is to be referred to the
court of claims. By the second section of
the bill the heads Of departments are pro.
hibited from considering any claim of any
amount, if it is based on contract performed
or on services rendered more than two years
before the presentation of tho claim. The
third section requires that any claim allowed
by the head of any department shall be ex-
amined as to both its legality and its amount
by the proper accounting officers of the


Treasury before it is paid. The bill ought to
have speedy passage.
Year: 1876

he was president Of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, he collected claim of over
100000 from the government, but refused
to receive one cent of compensation beyond
the amount of his travelling expenses and
hotel bills in Washington, holding the opin.
ion that, while he received a satisfactory
salary as president of a railroad, he ought
to attend to its duties without charging
Year: 1876




The great anxiety expressed by Democrat
ic newspapers in regard to the necessary sup.
ply of gold with which to begin the resump-
tion of specie payments is very touching.
So great forethought is something unusual
with them, and it is very confusing too; for
while freely expressing their apprehensions
that we lack the needed amount of gold with
which to resume they vigorously oppose
every measure to bring gold into circulation.


The truth of the matter is that the accu-
mutation of gold need trouble us but little.
As. soon as we find use for gold coin it will
flow into the country, for gold like every
other commodity, will 60 where it is most
wanted and will command the best price.
At present the precious metals are the most
profitable articles we can export, as we have
little use for them at home. The method
of obtaining gold is certainly an easy one.
The legal tenders are really bills against the
government. When these bills are presented
at the Treasury if there be not gold enough
with which 10 pay them, let the government
do as other debtors, take up the bills and
give lOl IuCLu AOtCo Will d uAtu udlG pay
ment of the amount with interest. These
notes become available assets which creditors
may keep or exchange for gold. If this pro-
cess is carried on for little time there will
be a very considerable contracting of the pa
per circulating medium and a consequent call
for more currency. 1t will then be easy for
those who hold the interest-bearlng bonds to
exchange them for gold and as gold will thus
become in obedience to the laws of demand
more valuable for circulation than for expor-
tation it will flow to this country and remain
here. This is the funding system, and under
it every dollar of our legal tender notes can
be converted into gold with absolutely no dis
turbance to the business of the county, for
our bonds are exchangeable in the
markets of the world for the worlds
money. 1t is objected that our bonds will 60
into the hands of foreigners. What of thatp ?
For every bond that goes to Europe so much
gold will come to this country, and the gold
is what we want. We shall borrow where
we can borrow cheapest. We have got to
pay for the gold as we pay for every other
commodity in foreign hands that we
desire.


The Democratic plan of boarding gold for
ten years or more, and thus locking up mil
lions of real dollars for that time, while not
one of the burdens imposed by deprecated
currency is removed, and while the redund-
ant paper money is left to auctuate for the
next decade as it has for the last, is absurd in
the extreme, and is not regarded by econo.
mists of repute as containing any elements of
good. A measure which continues all the
evils of a vicious and redundant currency for
ten years more, delaying the benefits of re,
sumption during all that time, cannot COM
mend itself to any honest advocate of hard
money. The funding plan appears by far
the best method by which to resume.
Year: 1876

COLONEL Charles Chesney, whose death
the cable announces, was the reputed author
of tine Battle of Dorking," but was better
known in this country as the author of a
history of our civil war, work which has
high credit with military men. He was con.
sidered the leading English authority on
military history and army tactics.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1876

THE reader of the argus presumably pays
his money for that paper and can take his
choice of credence between the following par
agraphs which appear in two consecutive is
sues of the 'sreliable old journal:"
Year: 1876




Captain lyman, OF the Sixteenth precinct was yes
terday before the full Board OF Police Commissioners
charged By Jacob Appel saloon keeper, with neglect
or duty In failing to close liquor saloons Sixth,
Seventh and Eighth avenues In his precinct wherein
liquor Is sold Sundays ia violation Of the Excise
law


From the testimony II appeared that Roundsman
Foley, acting under orders from Captain lyman
rested Appel December s. for selling lager beer at hs
saloon, Eighth avenue and Twenty third street.
The front doors OF tho saloon were unlocked and at
tempt at conceament OF his Sunday tranic made
by Appel his bartender Several respectable citizens
bad complained 10 Captain lyman OF this open violation
OF law and upon such complaints the raid made To
get positive proof Of the violation Roundsman Foley
entered the saloon In citizens dress and purchased
glass Of beer Two other saloons were closed the same
day for the same onence Last week Appel, thrsting
for Satisfaction preferred charges against the Captain
for arresng other saloon propretors for doing bus
ness on Sunday. Al the conclusion OF the testimony
Roundsman Foley and Patroiman Butcher were placed
trial charged BY the same complainant with illegally
arresting him the day In question The evidonce
did sustain the charge
Year: 1876

Money on call At the Stock Exchange to-day was
easy ats per cent II Is understood that the banks
or this city have forwarded large OF national
bank currency TO Washington for redemption, the
turns for which will improve the legal tender average
OF this weeks statement But as the country banks
being called upon BY the redemption bureau for the
necessary legal tenders redeem this same currebcy


will largely draw them from this city, the improve
meui from this cause viii be but temporary. Domss-
tic exchanges on New York we're quoted a. foIlows-
Year: 1876

when one of these devotees of fashion
camealong, friend Di' would raise his Ian
tern, make a critical inspection, heave
a sepnlchral sigh, and in utter disgust
sell his lantern TO junk dealer and
again give up the ghost.


My Brethren. let us live not without
hope of the coming of that better day
when this much worshiped goddess Of
christendom will be exercised from our
land by the jingIing offs few grains OF
wisdom in the contribution box of COM
mon sense.
Year: 1876

A little girl was trying to make b,r
doll sit up straight at tbe table, bat size
was meeting with difficulty. Finally
she gave it slap alongside of its head,
and excitedly exclaimed; You hii up
there, young lady, or not q step sha.l
ron 20 with me u the Centennial
Year: 1876

Mosby, the ex-Confederate general said re-
Gently to Philadelphia Times reporter:


Il do not think that the Democratic politi-
clans of the North have accepted in good
faith and with loyal sentiments the results of
the war. My candid opinion is that they have
accepted the amendments to the constitution
for the purpose of getting rid of them. do
not wish in this respect to reflect in any way
upon the integrity of the Southern people, for
with them am in deep sympathy. It is the
politicians upon whose sincerity, or rather
insincerity, l reflect. The attempt to solidify
the Southern political forces is going to make
solid North against the South. l think,
too, that the good faith of the Southern peo-
pie will always be suspected while they re-
racy"
Year: 1876

Ladies are willing to bear any of the dis
comforts connected with rare beauty, for the
sake of the distinction it brings and the
power it confers. But a few cases are on
record where beauty was really troublesome
to its possessor. Horace Walpole speaks of
a London family of girls, named Cunning,
who found it difficult to walk the streets, be-
cause great crowds gathered to look at them
wherever they passed. The fame Of Il young
lady is still fresh in Edinburgh, Miss
McLane, Scotch beauty of 1919, whose
charms excited the wonder Of all beholders.
She could not 60 into the streets without at
tracing a mob, and was obliged several
times to take refuge in shop from the vio-
lent admiration of the crowd Twice in a
theater the people in the pit, carried away
with her beauty, rose in their seats, took off
their hats as poof of sincere respect, and
called on her to come to the front of the box
in which she was sitting, that they might
look at her. An American crowd would
never violate their own self-respect by max
ing such an impertinent request, but it was
spontaneous tribute to beauty. A celebrated
French beauty, long the admiration of Paris,
said she first realized that she was growing
old when she found that the bows in the
streets did not turn around to look at her,
Erchange
Year: 1876

Experience at cleaning lands, both in re-
moving stumps and large bouders, with dyn-
amite, in Scotland has proved successful.
The following account is given Of late tria


in an Edinburgh paper: A spadeful OF earth
was removed from the side of a stump, and a
hole driven into the stump with a crowbar


Into this huie cartridge Of dynamite was
pressed by means of wooden ramrod; then
a detonating percussion-cap, with Black
ford's fuse attached, was squeezed into a
smell cartridge or primer of dynamite, and
inserted into the hole in the trunk, in contact
with the charge. The hole was filled up
with loose earth, about fOOt-length OF the
fuse being left bare. A match was next ap-
piled to the fuse, and sufficient time was
taken for the powder to reach the percussion
cap to allow the operatives to retire to safe
distance. When the explosion occurred the
trunk was literally blown out of the ground,


some of the fragments weighing nearly twen-
ty pounds, being thrown to distance OF over
hundred yards. The destruction Of the
stump was complete. In breaking up big
bowlder stones, the dynamite was simply pla-
ced on top of the stone, covered with wet
sand and fixed with the fuse in the ordinary
way. The result was the reduction of the
powders to fragments the size of walnut.


It was effectually proved by the experiments
that land can be speedily cleared of forn>id-
able distractions to good cultivation by the
use Of dynamite, and the committee Of the
society who watched the operations expressed
themselves as highly satisfied with the results.
Year: 1876

(San Francisco Chronicle.l


awful Gardiner was once we'll known
pugilist and sporting character in New York
On one occasion he went to Newark with q
select party to give sparring exhibition.
The negro who had charge Of the hall where
the show was to take place was gigantic
Structure and one of the party wagered a
not not knock the negro down with his fist. They
all waited in the hall for the coming of the
sable Janltor with lights. He approached
with candle shaded in his hands, and as he
came within arms reach, the awful meas
Gred him and struck square from the shoul-
Ger. The negro hardly winked. He simply
lnrned his head around towards the pugilist
ana said, ''Gemmen, please be little car full
OBJ yer elbows.
Year: 1876

The TowN-SITE.-The hearing of the
application of the County Judge for the
entry Of the Town-Si of Weaverville
in trust for the inhabitants, has been set
for the 9th Of February next. As will be
seen by notice in our advertising columns
lot owners and others interested are 70.
quested to advance to the County Judge
such amounts as they can spare at the
present time, to make up the purchase
money and other expenses of entry.-
Each sum advanced will be properly
credited, and on final settlement any over
plus which may be due the party adyanc-
ing, after deducting the assessments upon
his lots, will be repaid with interest. Pay
ments can be made to Judge Jones any
time between now and the ID day of Feb
ruary next.
Year: 1876

Success is the need of excellence. The
truth of this has never been more forcibly
eXempliiied than by the triumphant career
of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. No sooh-
er did the people discover the genuine
merits OF this supreme invigorant and
corrective than they FASTENED to stamp it
with the seal Of popularity. The press
and medical profession speedily followed
in the wake Of the public and emphatic
ally endorsed it. Thus from the very
outset the success of the bitters us a rem
edy and preventative was an established
fact, and degree of popularity which it
often takes proprietary medicines years to
attain, was achieved almost at stride by
the then new preparation. Since that
time every successive year has witnessed
fresh accessions to the favor with which
the Bitters were early regarded, and the
area of its popularity is no longer confined
to the United States, but includes the
British Provinces in North America and
the West Indies, South America, Mexico,
portions of Europe and Australia. That
it is not only ~ remedy fordyspepsia, con-
stipation, biIiousness, urinary and uterine
complaints, debility and nervousness, but
also preventive Of those maadies to
which air and water, impregnated with
miasma, give birth, has been no where
SO strongly evidenced as in those regions
where climatic conditions untavorable to
health exist, and where the Bitters have
been long aud constantly tested. TO call
this superb cordial remedy that has
made its mark, cannot we think be re-
garded as boasting, since there is probably
no proprietary remedy more widely known
universally respected and emphatically y
endorsed than these Bitters.
Year: 1876

From the World, lst.]
1t will be easy to turn the river, the
water is getting quite scarce.


Young Mr.. Sargent, who was in
town yesterday, is said to have re.
ported the bees on the Sargent apia-
ries as doing quite well.
We have heard of a curious affair,
even here in San Diego. A gentleman
in passing along the margin of the
bay, picked up a whale bomb, and a
lady happening to be near by picked
it up after he had thrown it down, and
slipped it under her dress, no doubt
intending to take it to the junk shop.
1t is a strange story, but it is said to be
true, that she had not much more than
got the thing concealed under her
dress than it exploded, knocking cali
co and dimity sky high, but doing
no material damage to the flesh under
them.


Such conduct on the part of the viii
lage Of Los -Angeles. is just rotten
mean, and nothing shorter, the way
they have treated this city in regard
to the Jones' Whiting case. Not be-
Ing able to get up such an affair, the
vile cusses have gone deliberately to
work and burlesqued the whole con-
cern, improvising marriage between
a colored gentleman of the respectable
age sixty TO belle of sixteen sum-
mers, and offer it as set off. Like
Jones, the old man had another wife
and like the mother of Mamie, the
belle of sixteen was induced to reject
Young and dashing knight of the
razor, and accept of old gray locks.
But, like the other case, it didn't stick;
didn't pan out, and away went the
little belle with the barber, and there
at, and thereon these is a fuss, and
newspaper talk.
Year: 1876




The price of hay this year will be
very low, on account of the abundant
crops.


The Congregational Church and So
ciety of this place will hold festival,
on Tuesday evening, June 9Th, on the
grounds adjoining the School house.
Large loads of Honey are being haul
ed from the vicinity of Temescal to
Cotton, for transportation. The crop
will be very large in all parts Of the
county this year.


Mr.. Carleton informs us that he
"sacksn nearly all the trees which he
transpIants. He says that when trees
are traDsplanted in this way it does
not injure them In any way, and that
the growth goes right on just the same
as though they had hot been taken up.
Even the leaves will not wilt.