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Year: 1872

One of the "wild men of the woods," of whose extraordinary exploits we have heard so many different versions, was re- gently killed in Livermore Valley, Cali fornia, when in the act of leveling a Hen " rife at the head of ranchman named Mullen. The wild man had been in the habit of making unexpected visits to the base of Monte Diablo, as it was supposed, for the purpose of taking the life of Null len, for whom he had conceived deadly hatred. In a moment of passion he had betrayed his intention to negro who was in the employ of Mullen. The matter was then brought to the notice of the County Sheriff, but he did not look upon the case as of much importance, Mullen, however, succeeded in procuring a pair of handcuffs and warrant of arrest. While on his way home he met the ma niac, and shot him through the heart in self-defence. When the rags upon the body were searched, evidence was found which went to prove that the wretched creature had once borne the name of Peavy, and that he had been resident of New England. To judge from the length of his hair and beard, which grew in struggled masses to his waist, he must have been in wild state for many years. The Californian rural journalists will be the principal sufferers by his death, the vagaries of the poor fellow having fur nished them for long time with basis for the major portion of their most as- founding sensations.
Year: 1872

MAINE TEMPERANCE CoNvENTIoN.-In the Maine State Temperance Convention the resolutions reported were unanimous ly adopted. They strongly recommend that the Sheriff enforce the act. The Committee on Temperance Legislation reported in favor of restoring the cider and wine clause as it stood in the a2t of 1858; that the Michigan law making the seller of intoxicating liquors and the owner of the building responsible for the damage done by an intoxicated person be enacted in Maine that persons convicted of illegally selling liquors be required to give bond not to violate the law for a year that liquor agent convicted of sellin 2 liquors illegally be ineligible to the office of liquor agent again and one or two other slight amendments. The report was unanimously adopted, and the committee instructed to bring the amend ments before the Legislature, and to urge action,
Year: 1872

LONDON CABAEN.-The cabmen in London appear to be honest men. Two ladies hired hanson to go short dis tance, and, having arrived. rendered their driver the proper fare of a shilling This the man declined, and, as they were alone, to avoid altercation, they gave him the extra sixpence he demanded. To their infinite amazement, in half an hour the cabman came back again, "regret- ting extremely having charged them too much, but having made inquiries and found he was ill the wrong, he must beg to return the sixpence." The procedure is regorded as so extraordinary as to have formed the subject of comment by the entire London press and probably so much fame was hardly ever gained before at 50 little cost
Year: 1872

A BOLD KIITEN,-The other day (says the Swiss IEn,es) little kitten unwarily play ing on the edge of the bear pit at Berne, fell between the bars into the area beneath. The spectators held their breath but the kitten, by no means overcome by its foes appearance, brist- led up both coat and tail in courageous wrath, and with such effect, that Bruin, when quite within reach of the tempting morsel, was sufficiently discouraged to turn tail and walk quietly away, leaving the little kitten master of the field.
Year: 1872

THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. cordine to the New York World, it is un- derstood that the National Democratic Executive Committee will not meet ID Washington this Winter, but will post : pone their session till after the Grant Convention at Philadelphia, when there will be ample time for all the elements of opposition to unite against the continn- ance of the present administration, and to call national convention to nom nate Q Presidential opposition ticket. This view meets the approval of leading Dem- ocrats in Congress.
Year: 1872

It is now generally admitted by honest physicians, that when once the consump- ton is fairly fastened upon the lungs, no human power can save the patient from death. They also say that about fifty per cent. of those who die from this d1s- ease can trace the cause to neglected cough or cold, which might have been cured by q small bottle of Liquid Opo- deldoc, or what is the same thing, JOHN SONS ANoDYNE L1NINIENT.
Year: 1872

Cut this notice out and bring it with you. We are authorized to refund the cash to any person or persons who shall buy and use PARsoN's PURGATIvE PILLS and fail of relief and satisfaction~-C Com.
Year: 1872

TO make the reduction of the national
debt either criterion to Judge of a
Presidents merits or a standard unde,
which to rally, is the most arrant poll
tical trickery. The people find the
grain, Congress is the mill aud the Sec
retary of the Treasury is the Jolly
miller who it is to be hoped superin-
tends the grinding without tolling the
batch. To compliment either President
or Secretary for simply following the
plain commercial plan is like praising
them for being neither knaves nor idi-
OTIS, and to urge Grants reelection on
such a basis, would be liky retaining a
domestic who had every undomcstic
vice except selling the potatoes and
handing over the cold Wet uals to pau
per relations at the back alley gate.
WAY
Year: 1872




The Cincinnati platform demands the
immediate resumption of specie pay
ments. If there is one thing in polit-
ical economy more ridiculous than an
other it is attempting to force specie
payments by legislation.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.


Very true, but does the Cincinnati
Platform say it should be forced! Is
there no other way but by legislation
for the Administration to act? Could not
the hundred millions Of gold all the
time in the Treasury be used without
legislation to affect return to specie
payments. How can it be in circula-
tion if kept in the Treasury. Evident
ly the administration is opposed to
specie resumption. That would stop
speculations in gold, and by that means
put an end to the opportunities Of ad-
ministrations to participate in the
spoils Of Black Fridays.
Year: 1872

The wife Of the Utica Daily Bee is
filing the editorial chair of that cstab-
lishment. like a brave woman, while
her husband is in prison for contempt
of court, we believe. She is tired Of
the editorial life, however, as may be
seen from the following paragraphs:


We wish the editor could come back.
We don't want to occupy his chair any
longer. 1t isn't pleasant. We don't
like it. We don't ike to have tall,
bectle-browed Bob Harts come str riding
into our presence, armed with a heavy
cudgel, and demand to know who wrote
some Of the meckest paragraphs ever
put in paper. We don't like to dun
or be dunned. We don't like to have
the proprietors Of old-established print
ing Offices get our printers away from
us. We don't like so much care and
responsibility. We are glad we are
not man. We would not have his
care and anxiety of business for all the
ballot Of the United States. Women
who choose may occupy exceptional
positions, but we would rather be ex-
cused. We never craved this job, are
not bit thankful that it has been
thrust upon us. 1t is dingy and dark
here, and we would rather be out in
the sunshine. Shopping has inexprcss-
ible charms for us, and it is woman's
privilege,


For men must work


And women be gay.


Besides, there are some fine points Of
scenery about her which need sketch
ing. So let's have the editor back
again by all means.
Year: 1872

A reasonably good man was Deacon
Pilsey, as times went, but, if he had a
weakness, it was for making things in
general 60 about as he wanted them to
60. Not an overbearing man by any
means, and certainly not violent one
but with wonderfully cute and quiet
and subtle ways of his own, by which
he brought the matters about without
letting other folks know now the thing
was done. When man is accustomed
to have his own way, he makes up his
mind pretty easily, but there was one
point Of all others upon which Deacon
Pilsey had been set and fixed for years,
and the care of which lay heavy on his
mind, for the time had come when, in
his judgment, something deep required
to be planned and all his skill exercised
in carrying it out. To a mind like his,
that had taken a perfect measure oi
every other in the village, and for miles
around it, there could be little Difficult
ty in selecting his tools and assistants
and he had no need of counselors. Tha,
was how he came to be talking 30 con
fidentially with with Joe Gaines, as tn
two stood by the yard gate.


"Why, Deacon" says Joe, II Away
thought you liked Bob Humphrey
He's a tiptop fellow, and . good mattel
for any girl know Of"
Year: 1872

The following correspondence shows
the present condition Of long dispute
between two ncighbors:


DEAR BULL: Some time ago your
wagon ran into my buggy, at the turn
pike gate, and broke one shaft and
knocked four stokcs out of the left
wheel. What are you going to do about
it?


Truly yours,


JoNATHANSMITu.
DEAR SMITH: I don't SEQ that I
ought to pay the damage done by the
wagon. But, as you say 1 am respon-
sible, I agree to leave it to Hans Brett
man, who keeps the toll-gate, to say
whether l ought to pay the dam
Year: 1872

DEAR SIR: Since you admit it is
ridiculous, you had better withdraw it.
l will pay anything that Breitman says
for repairing the buggy, but will not
put it in any fellow'spower to bankrupt
me.
Year: 1872

DEAR SIR: l will not leave any such
claim to Breitmap; he cannot under
stand it; indeed, he hardly understands
English, and might give a smashing
award against me on your ridiculous
claim.


Yours, truly.
Year: 1872

WOMAN's HAIR DR. Benjamin God.
frey has written book on the Disease
Of the Hair" lie says that woman's
hair may grow to tho length Of six feet,
and that young lady of Massachusetts,
refused thousand dollars for her
"cranial covering, which was only one
inch short Of this measurement" Four
hundred hairs Of average thickness would
cover an inch of space The blonde has
about one hundred and forty thousand
flameuts to comb aud brush while the
red haired beauty has to be satisfied with
eighty eight thousand the brown haired
damsel may have one hundred and nine
thousand, tho black haired one hundred
and two thousand. Few laliss consider
that they carry some forty or City miles
of hair upon their head the fair haired
may even have to dress seventy miles Of
threads Of gold every morning. A Ger
man experimentalist has proven that a
single hair will suspend four ounces
without breaking, stretching under the
process and oonsrsoti"g ugain. But the
hair thus heavily weighted must be dark
brown, for the blonde breaks down under
two ounces and half. .
Year: 1872

Boys be sure that your prospective
father inlaw's eye sight is good, or that
he has his specs" on when you call on
his daughter. A respectable young man,
who never swore nor used tobacco iu his
life, called to spend the evening with .
young lady in Brooklyn last week, and
walked into the parlor with his cane in
hand, as usual. The girls father sat ia
his slippers, reading the Independent by
the FIRE, until the visitor entered the room.
when ho pulled on one boot, and kicked
the caller out Of doors before the latter
could tell what allied him The old gen.
tlemau had been worried by lightning
rod men all day outside, and, being near-
sighted, mistook the beau and his cane
for one Of those irrepressibles with .
sample piece Of rod in hi. hand.
Year: 1872

How They SHAVE IN CHINA "A fsl
low who has been shaved in China says
that the barber first stroppod the razor
on his leg, and then did the shaving with.
out any lather. Tho customer remon.
stratsd, but was told that lather was en-
tirely useless aud had tendency to make
the hair stiff and tough, and was there.
fore never used by persons who had
knowledge of the face and its appendagss
After the beard had ben taken otf-and
it was done in very shor. tims-ths
barber took long, sharp, needle shaped
spoon and begun to explore the Gus.
TONER'S ears. He brought up from nu
merous little crsvices bits of wax and
dirt that had been accumulating since
his childhood. The barber suddenly
twisted his subjects neck to one side 10
such q manner that it cracked as if the
vertabr@ had been dislocated Hold
on y shouted the party, alarmed for the
safety of bis neck. "All right replied
the tonsor, "me no hurt YOU" and he
continued to jerk aud twist the neck uu.
til it was as timber as an old woman 8
dish rag. He then fell to beating the
back, breast, arms and sides with bis
6,ts, and pummelsd the muscles until
they fairly glowed with the beating they
had received. He then dashed a bucket
Of cold water over his mau. dried the skin
with towels and declared his work done
Price, two cents.
Year: 1872

The st. Louis Christian Advocate
says: ave do not pretend to account
for Satan. We cannot understand the
propriety Of his existence cny more than
we can that Of General Benjamau Butler.
but both are facts in the world, which
we receive upon competent testimony"
Year: 1872

LIE Down AND REST.-Dr. Hall says the
best medicine in the world, more efficient in
the cure of disease than all the potences of
the materia medlca, are warmth, rest. cleanli-
ness and pure air. Some persons make it a
virtue to brave disease, ''to keep up'' as long
as they can move foot or crook finger, and
it sometimes succeeds; but in others, the pow
ers OF life are thereby so completely exhausted
that the system has lost all ability to recuper-
ate aud slow and typhoid fever sets in and
carries the patient to premature grave.
Whenever walking or work is an effort, a
warm bed and cool room are the very first in
dispensabes to a sure and speedy recovery
Instinct leads all beasts and birds to quietude
and rest the very moment disease or wounds
assail the system.
Year: 1872

MAGNETIC TRAVELLING SToNEs-They
have walking stones in Australia, and, as we
are informed, they have travelling stones in Ne
vada. Here is description They were al
most perfectly round, the majority of them as
large as a walnut, and of an irony nature.
When distributed about upon the floor table
or any other level surface, within two or three
feet of each other, they Immediately begin
travelling toward common centre, and there
huddle up in bunch like lot of eggs in n
nest. A single stone removed to distance of
three and half feet, upon being released, at
once started off with wonderful and somewhat
comica celebrity to join its fellows; taken away
four or FIVE feet, it remained motionless They
are found in region that, although compare
lively level. is nothing but barren rock Scat
tered over this barren region are little basins,
from few feet to rod in diameter, and it is
in the bottom of these that the rolling stones
are found, They are from the size of a pea to
five or six inches in diameter. The cause of
these stones rolling together is doubtless to be
found in the material of which they are COM
posed, which appears to be loadstone or mag
netic iron Ore.-Seaside Oracle.
Year: 1872

/ Dr. Cabarus, who died at Paris last wear
was one OF the most jovial physicians whose
presence were equally sought in the sick room
as in society, and effect more with humor an(
pleasantly than by medicine Being brother


n-law of Lesseps, the celebrated engineer, and
nearly related to a prlncely family of his ma
tive land, he moved in aristocratic circles. who
deeply felt his loss.


One cure, by which, at the commencement
OF his career, he achieved great reputation,
is characteristic of the man. The Duchess of
D., one of the most aristocratic ladies OF
the Faubourg st Germain, had got possessed
OF the idea that she had swallowed frog. She
felt said frog-she declared she did-and it's
presence robbed her of peace of mind, sleep,
and even of health. The Partisan physicians
had the rudeness to deny the existence of this
animal, ignorant as they were that the poor
lady suffered martyrdom. A fortunate chance
made her acquainted with DIR. Cabarus, and to
him she told her tale of woe. He felt, with a
seriousness worthy of Hippocrates himself the
pulse of the fair patient inquired after various
symptoms, and when the charming aristocrat
had exhausted all her store of arguments to
prove her pet deusion, the youthful doctor said,
after well teigned pause:


Madame, the frog is there, but / will re-
move it,"


He then prescribed an innocent emetic, and
went to the nearest fowershop, where he
bought small green frog. Armed with this
confederate he presented himself once more
before the duchess, and placed a large basin of
water in readiness. The emetic began TO take
effect, the duchess eyes filled with tears, and
our doctor took advantage of the opportunity
to slip the green frog into the basin.


On seeing the frog a load was removed from
the duchess heart and for an instant all
seemed well. The next moment she turned
pale, and, as DR.. Cabarus supported her tot
terng frame she cried, in Il despairing tone:


"Oh, doctor! | am not yet cured, for the
frog has left little ones behind her'


Stop" cried Cabarus, without allowing
Il trace of embarrassment to be seen in his
manner; that we shall soon see"


He then threw a searching glance upon the
frog, which he had by this time taken in his
hand, and uttered with certainty that settled
the whole question, these words:


Madame, that is an impossibility, for the
frog is male "
Year: 1872

FIsHY.-The Dalles Mountaineer says that
a large halibut was caught lately at Victoria,
and on being opened, there was found on the
inside of him pair of boots with German sill.
yer spurs and a few buttons bearing the raised
figure of hound in full cry. 1t doesn't state
whether or not the wearer of the boots was
also found in the capacious NAV of the halibut.
Year: 1872

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Oct. 3.-Yesterday
forenoon at Lyons farmers team ran
away, throwing the man out and killing
him. In the afternoon relative named
Fox drove the runaway team to the village
for the purpose of procuring a coffin for the
deceased, and in crossing tine Central Rail
road track locomotive cOllided with the
wagon, and Fox ard the horses were killed.
The locomotive and two or three cars were
thrown into ditch. No person Oh the
train was injured. ..


This morning passenger on the 9:4C
train for this city, while standing on the
platform Of the car, lost his balance and
fell just as the train was on the bridge over
the Clyde river. He fell into the water.
Name unknown.
Year: 1872

Wepublish this morning card from Col.
Colyar, withdrawing from the canvass. 1t
came at SO late an hour that we only had
time to see that he shoots a Parthian ar
row as he leaves the field. He pretends to
think that secession is alive and kicking,
and that unless something is done, and
that right soon, Tennessee will be out OF
the Union, and as Richard the Third
might say, SIN the deep bosom of the ocear-
buried" We apprehend no such terrible
result, and there ore shall take our ap.
preaching slum5er quietly under the per
fec. belief That the Union is still safe.
Year: 1872

LIZ disorganization and the running of in
dependent candidates be so essential to en-
. sure the purity and perpstuation of demo-
cratic principles, why is it thai we hear
nothing of it in any Of tie other States of
the Union. In every other Stale of the
Union, the Democracy through their Con-
ventions have thorough organization and
are zealously working for glorious triumph
in NOvemhnr.
Year: 1872

New YORK, Oct. 3.-Fory suits began
in the State courts to test the constitution
ally Of the income tax and removed to the
United States courts are to be made test
case before Judge Woodruffin a few days.


Experts appointed by the board of audit
to scruiinize gas bills report that all
the gas companies have brought erroneous
bills against the city for the supply of gas.
Year: 1872

The Secretary Of the interior have conclu-
ded to purchase squares of ground north
and south oft the capitol to the extent of the
appropriation made during the late session
of congress. A further appropriation win
be necessary to complete the purchase to
the limits designed,
Year: 1872

LOVE, Ill FORTUNE AND SUICIDE. -
A young Chlnawoman, generally pro-
nounce1 the belle of Chinatown, COM
mitted suicide last Monday by taking
opium. The circumstances as we gather
them are highly romantic, and deserv-
Ing to be embalmed by the Chinese story
teller. The young woman was lately
brought to Weaverville by an old rascal,
who is said to make the traffic in Chinese
females his sole occupation and finds it
profitable. This unfortunate victim of
his avarice would not submit to dishonor
and was a prottless investment on his
hands. She met with dashing, honest
miner from the Flowery Kingdom, by
whom her tender affections were led cap
tive and who reciprocated her tenderness.
with all the ardor of vigorous and i'm
passioned manhood. 1t was necessary to
their happiness that the hero of our tale
should redeem his fair one from the
clutches OF the ogre who claimed her as
his property. He toiled and boarded un-
til by hard labor and economy he got to-
gether three hundred dollars towards her
ransom. But this was not half enough.
She was a fancy piece of property and
was held at the fancy price of eight hund-
red dollars. To get this sum by hard
knocks would require long years of toll,
perhaps lifetime. She might be sent
away might be compelled to marry an
other, ard if not to walt till he could earn
the money was an insupportable thought.
The future of the loving and unfortunate
pair was of inky blackness. But one
feeble ray Of hope was perceptibe through
the surrounding darkness. In the laby-
rinths of Chinatown there dwelt terri
BILE beast whose conquest would result in
glory and wealth to the successful antago-
mist. Animated, doubtless, by the max
inns that Fortune favors the brave"
and "None but the brave deserve the
fair" last Sunday night our hero attack
ed the tiger in his den, resolved to con-
quer if possible. The rest is briefly told


He lost all but his honor, and his duci-
nea drowned her woe in cup Of cold poi
son. She was buried by her master
without display and all her wearing ap-
parel, perhaps two hundred dollars in
value, was burned at her grave.
Year: 1872

VOU ARE HEREBY REQUIRED
l. to appear in an action brought against
you by the above-named Plaintiff in the
District Court Of the Ninth Judicial Dis
trict of the State of California, in and
for the said County of Trinity, and to
answer the complaint filed therein, within
ten days exclusive OF the day of service)
after the service on you of this summons
it served within the county; or, il
served out of this county, but in this dis
trict, within twenty days otherwise,
within forty days-or Judgment by de-
fault will be taken against you, according
to the prayer of said complaint.


The said action is brought to dissolve
the bonds of matrimouy existing between
said Plaintiff and Defendant end tor such
other relief rs to this Court may seem
just.


And you are hereby notified that if you
fail to appear and answer the complaint,
as above required, the Plaintiff will apply
to this Court for the relief demanded in
the complaint.


GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and
the seal of the District Court of the 9th


Judicial District Of the State
~@0m of California, in and for the
said County of Trinity, this
( l.. S. 18th day of August, in the


year of our Lord one thous-
%-~-~ and eight hundred and sew


enty-two.


JAS. G. TROTTER,
augl7-2m. Clerk.
Year: 1872

Action brought
in District Court of
the Ninth Judicial
District ofthe State
of California, in
and for the county
of Trinity, and the
Complaint filed in
said countyof Trim
ity in the office of
the Clerk of said
District Court.