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Year: 1873

ODJOctS or Che Order of the Patrons O1 | Husbandry.

 The question is often asked. what is

 the object of the Patrons of Husbandry,

 and what are they laboring to accom- plish? An organ of the order tells us

 as follows: The order proposes to

 meet dishonesty and injustice, corrup-

 tion and tyranny, rings, cliques, cor

 hers, combinations, monopolies and the

 most outrageous and villainous system

 known to free people.

 Under the operation of this system the rich are every day becoming richer, and the poor are every day becoming poorer.

 The ends it seeks to accomplish by organization are all good, and intended to inure to the benefit of the masses of the people who constitute the wealth. creating power in the land. Railroad, manufacturing and other moneyed monopolies of the country, are absorbing all the power, political as well as financial, which has been converted into an engine of oppression to the la- boring classes. The galling oppression to the agricultural masses, and those immediately dependent upon them, has become too intolerable longer to be borne

 The toiling millions who have made the country what it is, and by the sweat of the brow support their government grand, majestic, powerful :; command Ing obedience at home feared and re- spected abroad-propose, now that for bearance has ceased to be virtue, to meet organization, in manly conflict to meet combination by combination, and check injustice, overturn the power of tyranny, arrest corruption in high places, and substitute system of legis- lation for the people, instead of the present system of class Legislation which has driven so many against whom it dlscriminates to the very threshold of bankruptcy, and to which the greater number of most oppressive wrongs are traceable.

 It proposes, by every conceivable means that can be employed in that di- rection, to elevate the standard of edu- cation among the agricultural masses, and to stimulate the oncoming genera tion of both sexes to aspire to the highest possible attainments and the purest excellence in their respective spheres, and to promote the intellectual, social and moral welfare of it's member ship.
Year: 1873

There is one thing which the press in the large cities of the country has been more uniform and persistent in than in their persistent advocacy of such reduction in the premiums charged for life insurance as would bring that protection from want within the reach of every family. The National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America, B. A. Rollins, Presi- dent, Jay Cooke, Chairman of Finance of any other life Company in the world, has placed it's rates at about three-quarters of those charged by most companies, and wants an agent in every locality. It has the essential qualities of strength and cheapness, and we ad- wise all looking for full or partial en- ployment in life insurance to address the Company at Philadelphia Com.
Year: 1873

The following anecdote of the great

 tragedlan, Macready, came from a thea.

 tre attache, and is probably as reliable

 as the most of them Macready used

 every agency that God and Nature

 put in his power to make his acting

 tell. He neglected no aid of light and shade no study of position no mi mute attention to detail; indeed, no arti- fee whatever that would heighten effect. The storm scene in Clear" was one of his most powerful representations. An old man, tottering and exhausted, ray Ing at the elements, and defWng thun- der, lightning, and hail, is touching spectacle. To get himself up in style for this scene, he employed a strong and muscular friend to spend few mo- ments in shaking him vigorously, first right and then left, then forward and back, as dog shakes rag, till his hair was every which way, and his general condition so mixed up that, when the muscular man gave him the final shove on the stage, he was the very picture of reeIing, worn-out, and used-up old man, and, as he vented his rage on the stormy forces of nature, the impression was tremendous. One night the stout party was somewhat late, and, fearing that he would be behindhand in his part as shaker" rushed in hurriedly to what he supposed was the right place, and, seeing an elderly-looking man, with long, white hair, peering round as though he expected somebody he went for and shook him powerfully shook him to make up for lost time; shook the daylights out of him." and then flung him headlong on the stage. The pit saw it in moment, and they hooted as only the pit of the old days could hoot. The victim, scared almost to death, slunk back to private life, and the stout party didn't quite take in the situation till the outraged Bear, indulg- ing in tall kind of rhetoric not found in impressed on him that he had manipulated the wrong man.
Year: 1873

There IS peculiar saddening effect

 says the Danbury Nea0s, in awaking ir

 the night at hearing burglars at work

 in your house. This was the case with

 MT. Henry on South street. As soon as

 he detected the noise, which appeared to

 be down stairs, he softly crept out of

 bed, and commenced to proWl around

 for match. His wife was soon awakened

 by the same noise, and believing that

 something was the matter with the chil-

 dren who} slept in the next room. she

 carefully withdrew from bed, so not to

 disturb her husband, and started for the door. An instantlater they collided.

 What he thought was evident enough. All the hard earnings of an arduous life were at stake. Before him stood one or more robbers. With an exclama- tlon of condensed eloquence he clinched her. What she thought is not quite so evident, but it was doubtless of her husband and children, and being pluckv withal, she at once twined her fingers in his hair, and gave him a wench that made him think of death. Then both of them went down to the floor together: she having the advantage in the fall. and getting on top, with her hands still In hair, she shook his head against the floor with an energy and courage that would have undoubtedly filled him to overfowing with admiration, had he known who it was, or had he known anything at all. Every time she rapped him she shrieked for help, and in brief space of time the children and Mrs. Eben Davis, who lives down stairs. were on the scene. Mrs. Davis was not dressed for company, but in the excite ment she didn't mind adornment. She had candle in one hand, and a long carving fork in the other, and was about to drive the latter into the legs of the william, when recognition ensued. Then Mrs. Davis laid down her candle in one direction, and the fork in another, and immediately returned to her own apart ments, her yellow flannel hnigt-cap, as it shot down the stairs, being the first thing that MT. Henry saw on springing to his feet. The children were returned to their room, and put to bed, but the parents did not resume their couch. It was so pleasant that MT. Henry con- 'luded to remain up the rest of the night and enjoy the scenery, and Mrs. Henry thought it best to stay up, too, 10 to change the cloths on his head as often as possible.
Year: 1873

IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARrH.-In drifting on the 1,4OO foot level of the Grown Point mine at Virginia City, the Torkmen Keep hole of considerable depth drilled ahead. of the main work in order that they may not suddenly break through into 8 large body or natural reservoir of water. A day or two since, while thus boring ahead in the rock, vein of water was tapped eggs were boiled in it, and boiled til very hard at that. The eggs were placed in the drill hole, a lit of rock placed before them to back the water over them, and in few minutes they were boiled as hard as could have been done anywhere. Sam Jones, superin- tendent of the mine, who cooked and ate some of the eggs, is of the opinion that th1s bit of cookery was performed mother earth than any that has ever been done on the Pacific coast.
Year: 1873

Franklin gave excellent advice to people who desired success in life; and yet his rules were by no means infalli- ble. A man may, by industry and economy, accumulate large amount of property, and in the end he may lose 1t. It is one thing to make money, and quite another to keep it. There is no doubt that life insurance policy in a good company is a good investment in the majority of instances. The money IS paid when the family most need it, and it is usually beyond the reach of creditors. We do not hesitate to recom- mend the New York Life Insurance Company as one of the strongest and best, to all who seek insurance. Com,
Year: 1873

A Sandwich Island paper reports the production of four hundred tons of sugar from a hundred-acre lot, and proceeds to boast exceedingly of the extraordinary richness of the soil of Hawaii-Nei.
Year: 1873

The SUGAR BEET CRop.-Some of oul
best farmers annually put in an acre or two
of sugar beets, and thus lay up for Winter
supply of good succulent food that comes
into use when they are obliged in a great
measure to depend upon dry food only.
When the beets are chopped up and sprink-
led with little corn meal or bran, they are
eaten eagerly by cows and steers, and they
are not only fattening and milk-p oducing
but extremely wholesome. They are raised
as easily as a crop of ordinary turnips in
drills. The ground must be well prepared
and manured deeply, the rows struck about
thirty inches apart, and the seed drilled in.
When up two or three inches the plants
should be thinned out, removing the weak
est, to four or five inches apart, and thor
oughly cleared of weeds. The cultivator
should be passed through once or twice care
fully. In three or four weeks another thin
ming out should take place, allowing the
plants to stand from eight to ten inches apart.
The hoe should be freely used between the
plants, and the cultvator between the rows.
Frequent stirring Of the ground is indspensi-
BILE in the production of large crop.


CHOLERA M1xTURE-T following is said
TO be an absolute specific for the prevention
of Asiatic cholera, if taken when looseness
of the bowels is first noticed, and is good at
any stage of the disease.


Tnct. Op.


Tinct Capsic.


Tinct. Rhei co.


Tnct. Menth pip.


Tinct. Campho.


Mix equal parts of each


In common language, it consists of mix
ture of equal parts Of tncture of opium, red
peper, rhubarb, peppermint and camphor, and
the dose is ten TO thirty drops in two or three
teaspoonfus of water.


BAD MILK AND BUTTER IN W1NTER.-It is
said, when COWS are allowed to eat litter
which is thrown out Of horse stables, impreg-
mated as it is with liquid manure, their milk
and butter will be tainted with tie taste in
the same way that the flavor is injured by
eating turnips, but to more dsagreeable
degree. If litter is allowed to be eaten, it
should only be given to other cattle, and not
to milch cows, which should have nothing
but the sweetest and purest food.


POTATO SoUp.-For family of six, CRATE
five good sized potatoes, add two quarts Of
water, and place over the fire and boil slow
ly half an hour before wanted for the table
ten minutes before taking up add half cup
Of sweet cream, large spoonful of butter,
and salt and pepper to taste. To those who
are fond Of onions, small one grated with
the potatoes adds much to the flavor of the
soup.


To REMOVE WARTs.-Simply apply car
bolic acid few times for few days.
There is no pain.
Year: 1873

. GENTLEMEN's STYLES FOR SPRING ARE NOW
on exhibition at the corner of Thirteenth and Main
streets. e. b. SPENCE & Son have laid In one OF
the largest and bcst-assored stocks or clothing and
gentiemen's furnishing goods ever brought to this
city, and they selling them cheap any SINH
lar line Of goods can be bought where CALL ex-
anime, and be convinced
Year: 1873

NoTICE.-Yon can purchase frame at the Rich
mond Frame store for seveniy-fve cents which will
cost one dollar In any other place In the city Don't
forget the place, next to the Dollar Store. corner
Ninth and Main streets.
Year: 1873

THEY ARE SELLING PICTURE FRAMES AT THE
Richmond Frame Store at lower prices than they
can he had at any other place In the city. Rich
mord Frame Store, next TO the Dollar Store corner
Ninth and Main streets =
Year: 1873

The MoDoC FARCE is apparently hav-
ing most Unprecedented run. The
Immortal forty seven" tar-heads con-
tinue to hold the people of the United
States at bay. One or two more persons
have been added to the Peace Commits
sion and present indications are that the
Commissioners will soon out-number the
Modocs. The troops are lying in wait at
respectable distance and said to be anx-
ious TO fight. A dispatch has been re-
ceived from Washington ordering the
commander to hold on and make peace
if it takes all Summer. One thing now
appears certain and that is that we are
not to get rid Of the ''immortal forty-sev-
en-" by war, but we have reason to be
grateful in full knowledge Of the prob
abilities that peace negotiations will be
kept up so long that the Modocs are liable
to die of old age. A dollars worth Of
powder and lead will go farther towards
making peace with these redskins than IL
million spent in the expensive luxury Of
Commissioners and peace negotiations.
Year: 1873

THE commissioners of the new San
Francisco City Hall have decided that
the walls of the building above the base
ment-which is of Angel Island stone
faced with granite-shall be entirely of
brick, and not Of brick faced with granite
as was at one time the expectation. 1t is
supposed that this discrimination will save
more than year in time and I,00O,O 900
in the cexpense of completing the structure.
Year: 1873

A LAST WARNING.-It is related that
George Driver, who was hung at Chicago
on the l4th instant, while on the scafiold,
seized hold Of the rope that was about to
he put around his neck, and holding it
up, said to the spectators whisky did
this for me. When any of you take a
drink of whisky hereafter, think of this
rope and remember my fate"
Year: 1873

The election Of a full Democratic dele
CATION in Congress for the State of New
Hampshire is no gain to the opposition,
as they have had the three members in
the last Congress bat the falling off of
the vote shows significantly that Repub-
licans there have taken the bait prepared
by the opposition. Many Republicans
have stayed away from the polls, because
they were dissatisfied with what has been
done or left undone by Congress. The
Legislature being Republican and the
Governor having to be chosen by a Re-
publican House, the dominant party
may feel well satisfied with the status quo
which will thus be maintained in this,
one of the most doubtful Of the States.


BRITISH CHANGE OF MINISTRY.


The defeat Of the Liberal ministry in
England and the resignation of Glad
stone with possible success Of the Con-
servative party is among the interesting
subjects of gossip. The vote against the
Irish University bill appears to have been
a complete surprise to the ministry, and
to have resulted more from combina-
ton Of favoring circumstances than from
any unpopularity of the Liberals.


RUN ON A BANK.


Quite a scare has taken place among
the depositors Of the Washington Savings
Bank here. For three days line has
been formed in front of their office and
it has dwindled to small crowd around
the door. The cause appears to have been
misapprehenslons in the inferen ces drawn
from Comptroller Knox's report regard
ing technical violations of its charter by
the Company. The fact is that the char
ter had long been abandoned and the
company was working under a private
organization. 1t is fact, however, that
savings banks as well as building asso-
Citations in this District are run without
always being incorporated and properly
subjected to periodical official reports.
This should be reformed, and all such
institutions should be compelled to con-
form to the terms Of general incorpor-
alton law of the District Legislature. De-
posts are now being returned to the bank
in question.
Year: 1873

"Lo, the poor INDIAN" has got the
whooping cough. So has Mrs. Lo,"
and the " Lo" family generally. For the
comfort of our readers we will say that
the whoops they are now giving are not
war whoops. 1t is new disease to the
diggers, and they think it will send them
all to the happy hunting grounds. We
hear also that some of the Chinese at
Douglas City have caught the disease, in
which case we predict it will soon be
brought to this place.
Year: 1873

The human body is machine, and


therefore cannot endure forever but, like
watch or sewing machine, it will last
much longer if properly regulated and


duly repaired, than if no pains were taken


to keep it in order. The great object of
everyone who desires a long and healthy
life should be to put the body in condi-


ton to resist the life threatening influences


by which we are all more or less sur
rounded ; and'no invigorant and correct


i've at present known SO effectively answers
this purpose as the vitalizing elixir which,


under the unpretending name Of Hostel


ter's Stomach Bitters, has been for more
than twenty years the standard tonic of
America. In crowded cities, where the
atmosphere Is contaminated with the ef-
tluvia inseparable from large populations
in marshy regions, where the soggy soil
reeks with miasma on the prairies and
In the forests, where every Fall the air is
tainted with exhalations from rotting
weeds and grasses, or decomposing leaves
in short, in every locality where malaria
exists, this powerful vegetable antidote is
urgently needed. Fever and ague, bill
ious fevers, dysentery, congestion of the
liver, jaundice, rheumatism, and all dis
eases which are generated by infected air,
impure water, or sudden changes of teri :
perature, may be averted by strengthen
ing and regulating the system in advance
with Hostetter's Bitters. Autumn is al
ways season of Peril, especially to weak
susceptible organizations. Even the more
vigorous are apt to be in some measure
depressed by the humid atmosphere, load
ed with deleterious gases produced by
vegetable decay. The Fall is period OF
the year when the renovation and regula-
tion of the living machine is peculiarly
important, and the Bitters should there
fore be taken daily at this critical season.
Year: 1873

POLL AND HOSPITAL TAxEs.-More
than 14OO each Of Poll and Hospital Tax
Receipts have been sold in Trinity county
this year. This we consider q pretty
fair showing in voting population of on
ly about 800, and shows that our Assessor
and his deputies have been active. Poll
tax is now delinquent and fifty per cent.
added thereto.
Year: 1873

JOHN CLIFFORD is again carrying the
Humboldt mail after an absence of sew
eral weeks, during which time, as will be
seen by announcement under the proper
head, he has not been idle.
Year: 1873

! THERE will be no bids received for the
surrender of County Warrants at the No
vember session of the Board of Supervi-
sors. Cause why-there is no money in
the Redemption Fund just now.
Year: 1873

LOST HIS CLoTHEs.-A certain village
in the county of Trinity, was the scene of
the following incident which happened
during the past week: John had cleaned
up, or in some other way had made
a raise, and as is frequently the case with
lucky miners invested portion of his
earnings in "refned lightning'' thereby
quitting an enemy in his mouth to steal
away his Senses" After imbibing what
he considered a sufficient quantity, John
started home, but as the road was long
one and remarkably crooked on this oc-
casion, he concluded to rest by the way
side. So, stripping off his clothing, even
to his boots and socks, he turned in"
in the corner of neighboring fence and
was soon wrapt in the arms of Morpheus.
But the night it was cold, and the
broad canopy of Heaven, notwithstanding
the poets praises, is not sufficient covering
on such night; our hero was soon
awakened, somewhat astonished to find
himself sans coat, sans hat, sans boots,
sans almost everything in the line of
cheap ready-made clothing, and to make
the matter worse he was totally unable to
account for this condition of affairs. Con-
sidering it question of doubtful policy
to stand there en- dishd6itte and shivering
in the cold night air, he made his way
back to the town, and was soon comfort
ably housed. Next morning q party of
friends instituted a search for the missing
garments which were found by the road
side all safe, as was also something over
one hundred dollars in coin, in the pock-
cts of his pantaloons. Moral-Strict eti
quette may demand the dofing of outer
garments before retiring for the night,
but under circumstances like those noted
above it would be we'll to suspend the
rules.
Year: 1873

and make u note Of the quantity, quality and
price.


Goods retailed aS heretofore At fraction only
above wholesale figures. This can be readily
done, as the extra discounts of manufacturers
and importers are in many instances quite large


NV stock is now full and complete in all de-
partments, and the wants of every one can be
supplied.


Fortunately for myself and customers, chronic
croakers have no influence in these quarters,
and / shall continue to oppose any comolnatlon
to maintain extortionary prices.


Thanking my customers and friends both IN
and out of the city for their liberal patronage,
confidence and influence during the past seven
years l hereby further assure them that in the
future as in the past shall exert myself tomsln-
tain stock of goods that will do credit to Alex
andra and continue to attract trade from all the
surrounding country.


s- During the approaching season other De-
partnents will be added TO stock, each OF which
will be complete i'll every particular


Goods whoesaed al prices as low rs any
jobbing house in New York.
Year: 1873

follow The Chesapeake and Ohio Road in ~ ntn uou1
through Eastern Virginia passes through ma h
deposits OF iron ore, the oOupterparts OF >'s svoO
which have enriched Pennsylvania, These "VS 90
mines have been worked heretofore by the u@ ~o'
charcoal fuel for the want OF choap coal n its ceure


hckest portions OF the great Allegheny coal field where
the coal Is purer more accessible tDelng nigh abeyo
water eveD and of three distinct varieties which arc
valuable for fuel and smelling purposes respect
lively The completion OF the line opens TO the furnaces
of Virginia the long needed supply OF cheap fuel smet
ing coal and limestone Indeed one OF the first results
Will be the erection Of furnaces iron works,
and other industries along the new portion of the nne
and vast reciprocity OF local relghts Will thus be es
tablished from one part OF the line TO anothw


Aside from the stimulation Of the coal, iron, and other
manufacturing interests, the road will have an inn
portant function In enlargng the natural productions OF
the territory which II AT the eastern portion OF
the ine from dewaer region to the foot OF the noun
tans is fine agricultural region of which the staple
articles and tobacco In the Piedmont
and Valley regions the finest wheat district this side
of Colorado found. Further West the strong
tobacco aud soils OF West Virginia Along the Ken
tueky connections OF the Chesapeake road are
Ia be found the famed bluegrass" " re-
lands in America. over this line there
will pour tho cattle, hemp, tobacco, pork grain, ana
hides OF large OF fertile country II must furnish
the shortest route for the cotton of the Western
states. and Will be available short and cheap line Tor
the cereals and other shipments OF the West and North
West. Tue mineral springs and Summer resorts, To-
gether with its picturesque scenery must draw over its
routes large tide OF travel and busy thrOng OF mines
and manufactures must cluster along its line. LOOKING
at the feeble beginnings OF some OF the lines now IN
high state OF prosperity may naturally expect that
the Chesapeake and Ohio commencing its with "a
comparatively light debt, road and track durable
and Of maintenance. must at take rank as one
OF the great and profitable trunk lines OF the continent