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Year: 1873

We have had Pages funky pinned to the
wall for a long time, wriggling and squirni-
ing like the contortions of snake with its
back broken, and if it (the Page hunky)
ever had any brains, they have now about
all oozed out in its dying throes last week /;
and it is now swollen and green all over from
the poison of its own fangs. We nailed to
its carcass two weeks ago a half pur-
lie lies, and last week it wriggled Though
nearly u column Of slime and falls at the end
convicted liar. But Providence, apparently
fearing that some one might possibly believe
something in the argus, induced it to insert
that which all men know to BE- base lie
we give it here:


1--WE could very consistently say that any man
who has free pass over the railroad, was tool
of the Company, yet we are perfectly willing that
Leland Stanford should continue to furnish his
pass to Joe Walkup.'


This pure hunky knew this was lie
when he penned it, knew that every man in
the county and State, as far as we or the
HERALD are known would deuounce it as
lie, and its author as both liar and fool.
Surely the stockholders of the Argus and even
the rhnoceros hded ring and railroad stool
pigeons, must blush for shame at the contor-
tions of this branless, liliputian lickspittle of
the Auburn ring. The poor creature is too
bic fool to be even amusing.
Year: 1873

SENAToatAL.-A correspondent of the Bee
suggests the carpetbagger, Gen. Miller, for
United States Senator Miller never would
have been citizen of California had he not
been sent here with commission as Collec-
tor of the port of San Francisco in his pock-
ct. Californians are not stnck after carpet
bageers. and there is no room for Miller in
de Senatorial race
Year: 1873

thorities would hang a few of these war
riors if they were turned over TO them, but
will they be tufned Overt We believe nc
intelligent man will deny but the Modocs
were fighting to preserve their ancient in
heritance--their water, fishing streams,
hunting grounds, lands and the graves Of
their ancestors-Gghtiug in this belief, and
in fact, to keep Grants Indian ring from de-
spelling them of all they held dear on earth.
The worst punishment that can be inflicted
upon this untutored, savage, but brave peo-
pie, would be again to place them in the
hands of Grants Quaker thieves. Money
could be made out of Captain Jack, and
we recommend that Grant detail .Piegan
Sheridan and send Linn out to show Jack
for money. IF this don't get the money
back for the Modoc war, then the whole
thing is dead horse. We are glad the
war is over Ithas been bungle from the
start, and we never did banker after it as a
subject to write about.
Year: 1873

THE Sacramento Bee claims TO have pos
tive information that Governor Booth will
soon withdraw from the Senatorial contest.


The. Bee is probably specializing on the
result Of the Sacramento convention. and
Booth and the Unions determination to run
linn little in and little out of The Repub.
lican party. From such a standpoint Booth
can get no support from any party. AL
ready our Liberal and Democratic ooteppo-
raries all over the State have turned from
him, and the monopolists have laid the
wires that willenot leave grease spot Of
him SenstoriARy. We wished him a better
fate, lNthisananagers willed it otherwise.
NScwis she' time for him to reassert his dec
'lardtion that he viii serve out his full term
as Governor Of the State. That will bring
'joy'to the people in the assurance that for
two years yet the State and people will not
be wholly the property of the monopolists.
But should the Bee be mistaken, and Booth
persist in allowing the use Of his name, and
the decentralization and defeat of bis friends
in the railroad conventions and caucusses,
he will have committed crime in securing
the success of Gorham or some other mo-
nopoly Hunky that vii, stain and destroy
his political prospects in all future life.





TUE Grass Valley Union has got good
thing. The Transcript is the Republican or
gan of the county, and it is afraid of Booth
and fears Sargent and the monopoly. The
U,ion has got a long pole and is punching
the Transcript on the Senatorial question;
the Transcript snaps at the pole occasional
", but utters no word on the issue. We
think the Transcript vii! answer after the
10th inst. when the Sacramento convention
shall have bagged Booths scalp. Our
Page chick, next door, is dumber than was
Mortimer for the last two weeks before be
was hanged. The rope is around the off,
cial neck Of the Auburn Ring, and the people
will spring the traps next September, but
who is to bury the fetid carcass? Coroner
Jamisor, prepare for the nauseatng job.
Year: 1873

cnce to and in defiance of the will of the
people as expressed by the ballot, to
pull down one State Government and
set up another in its stead.


Should Congress repudiate such rep
rehensible practices, we merely will
obtain our rights; on the other hand,
should Congress permit such practices
to go unrebuked, we will then know
our status-know that despotism has
usurped tho place Of constitutional gov
ernment, and the quicker we know it
the better.


Let the people of this State take an
active part i'll their own cause, which
is the cause of every State in the Union,
and you may then rest assured that all
will yet be we'll.


BY order of the Committee of Seventy:


II. IL. MARR, Chairman.


JOSEPH COLLINS, Secretary.
Year: 1873

The rattlesnake finds a superior foe


i'm the deer and black snake. Whenever


a buck discovers a rattlesnake in a sit


uatinn which invites attack, he loses no


time in preparing for battle. He makes


up within ten or twelve feet of the


snake, then leaps forward and aims to


sever the body of the snake with his


sharp bifucerated hoofs. The first on
set is most commonly successful, but if
otherwise, the buck repeats the trial
until he cuts the snake in twain. The
black snake is also more than an equal
competitor against the rattlesnake. Such
is its celebrity, both in running and en-
twining itself around its victim, that
the rattlesnake has no way of escaping
from its fatal embrace. When the black
and rattlesnake are about to meet for
battle, the former darts forward at the
height of its speed, and strikes at the
back of the neck of the latter with un-
erring certainty, leaving foot or two
of the upper part of the body at liberty.
In an instant he eneireles him within
five or six folds; he then stops and
looks the strangled foe in the face, to
the effect produced upon his
body. If he shows signs of
life, the coils are multiplied and the
frightened, the operator all the
while watching the eountenance of the
victim. Thus the two remain thirty or
forty minutes, the executioner then
one coil, noticing at the same
time whether any signs of life appear;
if so, the coil is resumed and retained
until the incarcerated wretch is COM
pletely dead. The moccasin-snake is
killed the same way.
Year: 1873

Professor ROsenthal gives the follow


ing explanation of the pathogenic ac-


ton Of exposure to cold. Suppose an


individual to have been subjected to an
elevated temperature, such as that of a


ballroom or theatre, or to have engaged
in violent muscular exercise; the cuta-
neous vessels are dilated, and in a state
more or less akin to paralysis, and in all
cases more slow to contract than usual


If at this moment the same person be
exposed abruptly and without an inter-
mediate transition to low temperature
especially to a current of cold air, a
considerable loss of heat will be obsery-
ed upon the surface of the body. The
blood which has been thus cooled exter-
nally comes back into the internal or
gans and cools them suddenly; which
circumstance alone may, in an organ
predisposed TO disease, become the ac-
tive cause of some severe malady. The
cutaneOus vessels, on their part, become
contracted, driving out the blood which
they contained, and thus produce kind
of hyperamia, which in itself may ex-
ercise a morbific action. This cause,
however, is usually only an accessory
one, at least in cases where the temper
ature has been much elevated. The
vessels have lost their tonleity, and do
not contract suddenly. But If the dan
ger from collateral hyperemia is thus
that from refrigeration is
Increased.-Editor's Scientific Record in
Mdqasine for Man.
Year: 1873

The Hearth and Home says: There
lived in Brooklyn, not long ago, man
possessed of devil. He had inherited
the devil from his father, in the first
place, and had nursed it until it grew
so strong it took entire possession of
him.. The devil was a very familiar one
and its name was rum. The man had
many noble instincts, and; better than
all these, he had loving, faithful,


brave wife, who made skilful war upon
the demon, her husbands master. Rec
ognizing the fact that het husband was
under an empowering impulse, that he
longed and struggled manfully to tree
himself from the passion for drink, she
bent all the energies of her woman ma
ture to the task of helping him. She
loved and suffered and toiled, until at
last the loving, and suffering, and toll
ing accomplished their purpose. She
took her husband by the hand, and
shared with him his struggle, until, af-
ter years of labor, she overcame his
devil, and saw him free man. again.
Her battle with rum had been a fierce
one, taxing and wasting her strength
sorely, but she was conquerer at last.
Her husband stood upon manly feet,
and showed no signs of falling again.
Several years passed away, and this re-
formed man fell i'll of consumption.
The distinguished physician from
from whose lips we have the story pre-
scribed alcoholic stimulants as the only
means possible of prOlonging his life.
The poor wife was in terror, and beg
ged the physician to recall the prescip-
tion. She told him of her long struggle
and her victory, and said that she pre-
ferred that her husband should die
then, a sober man, than that he should
fill drunkard's grave year later.
But the free spirit of the man was
strong, and he undertook to take aleo-
holic liquors as medicine, and to con-
fine himself absolutely to such times
and measures in the matter as the ply
sician should prescribe. This he did,
and during the months thus added to
his life he never once drank single
drop more than the prescription called
for, and he died at last a sober man, as
the wife had so earnestly prayed that
he might. But the end was not vet. |
When the loving and patient woman
laid him in his grave, and saw her long
labors thus ended in the victory for
which she had toiled so hard and suffer-
ed so bitterly, she turned, in grief, to
the brandy which had been left in the
house, and drinking it, she fell herself
into the power of the devil which she
had fought so heroically. And that
woman died, not many months later,
hopeless, helpless drunkard.
Year: 1873

A war among the fishes is reported
with other wonderful fish stories from
Florida. Recently bloody hght took
place between lot of whales from fifty
to sixty feet in length, and school of
a smaller species of the same animals,
known as the black fish. The latter for
time sustained the unequal contest,
but the superior size and power of their
adversaries drove them to-refuge in the
shallow water Of the harbor where the
whales were unable to follow. Many of
the black fish, in their headlong flight,
ran on the shoals. and the reeeding tide
left them stranded.
Year: 1873

Young ladies who have grandmothers
ransack their ancestral treasures for
high tortoise-shell combs, and if they
find them stick them in their back hair,
and straightway rejoice exceedingly.
Year: 1873

The President, in conversation yesterday,
asserted most positively that he does not In
tend to make any change in the Government
agency at London, adding that the suspcn-
sion Of Clcws Il Co, which involved the sus-
pension Of the London house Of Clews, lIa-
bicht 4 Co. was the result Of unavoidable
misfortune, and that no dlshonorable taint
attaches TO them on account Of 1t. The news
since received, that Clews Il Co. will soon
resume, shows that the Presidents confidence
in the house has not been misplaced.


In further conversation the President relte-
rated his determination to odocvcrything In his
power and the power of the Treasury to re-
lieyc the public from the distressing influences
Of the pending financial disturbance, and re-
peatcd his previous declarations regarding
the rotteuncss of the basis on which the stock
jobbing operations are carried on In New
York and elsewhere. He added that the
Government had already proceeded to the
extent Of It's ability under the law to relieve
the market and, commenting upon the re-
suit OF the purchase Of bonds by the New
York sub,treasury, remarked that, so far as
the railroad stockholders are concerned, they
will require relief every sixty days, soloug as
they transact business on their present basis
lie expressed the opinion that the merchants
and solid business men Of tho country will
take advantage of the low rates of exchange
now prevailing in the management of theii
fall business transactions, and seemed to b,
satisfied that in the end the panic will bC
productive Of great good in destroying th'
imaginary foundation Of certain business in
terests, and placing the substantial bushes
men Of the country on more reliable foot
Year: 1873

Germany keeps her own counsel with
more success than any other European
nation, and to it is attributable her sue
cess in arms over France. She only
publishes her preparation by the accom-
plishment of her aims. She cannot
longer, nor does she desire to conceal
her military prowess, but she is again
silently moving to strengthen herself on
the sea as well as the land. Cuxhaven
is to be raised TO the Importance of "a port
of entry, and united by rail with every
part of the kingdom. 1t is said the
government has under consideration the
union by canal of the German ocean
and Baltic This canal will run from
Kicl through Holstein, and from the
point of starting would carry. with 1T the
commerce of the country to Lubec,
Dantzic. .Uhristianstadt, Stockholm, Riga
and Cronstadt. There are indications
not only that Germany intends to open
up highways of trade, encouraging pro-
duction by cheap transportation, but
that she intends to protect the mouths
of these avenues, and guard these ports
of entry by naval outfit sufficient
for the purpose and equal in rank to
her military front.
Year: 1873

The Richmond Journal says:-We
have the following facts from gentle
man who recently visited the Natural
Bridge:-On passing into the gorge be-
low the bridge by the usual route, he
was surprised to find the bed of the
stream Cedar Creek dry and unsightly


The keeper of the hotel stated that about
two weeks before the creek suddenly
disappeared from under the bridge, and
our informant, on following up the gorge
found the stream pouring down into the
earth, and seeking some unknown chan
nel beneath. On careful discrimination
three leaks we're found, the largest be-
ing through fssure or fault, in the
limestone bed of the stream. These
the visitor partially stopped up i'll a few
minutes, and sends scanty stream on
its way TO the bridge. Similar facts
were revealed by further examination
and the conclusion is inevitable that the
rocky substratum of these limestone hills
is throughly honeycombed by the
action of the wate;. The conclusion is
further sustained by the fresh discovery
of caves, some of them of considerable
extent, in the immediate vicinity of the
bridge Some fine stalactites from one
of these caves are exhibited at the hotel.
Year: 1873

In spite of powerful limbs and stout
muscles, the bear is poor specimen of
carnivorR. His weapons are less terrible
than they seem and he uses them only
on exceptional occasions. We say this
especially of the brown and black; yet
even of the grizzly it is not without its
application, for had that immense brute
the ferocity of the tiger, what scourge
it would be.


Open the bears mouth, and you find,
not sharp and keen, but broad and fiat,
grinders rather than incisors, to cut and
tear; and in fact roots, young shoots and
and fruits, satisfy his enormous appe-
tite. His favorite food his choice lux
ury, is honey Look at his feet the
large sole coming heavily to the; ground;
his course is no sudden bound no feet
and stealthy steps but slow peaceful
march as the animal drags its weight
along, or climbs the trees and branches.


The bear seems to be a transition be-
tween the monkeys and carnivorR-
lar, apes ashamed of the change come
over them. AS if ashamed he leads a
hermit life in the woods, and mountains
sleeping much of his time in summer,
and almost the whole of winter, So
that the animal, rivaling the lion in size
has the habit of marmot.


He is domestic, and needs home. If
he finds in his domain a cave or hallow
tree, his fortune is made. If not he
goes to work, brings branches, and heaps
them up with covering of moss, so as
30 make comfortable bed.


The two sexes do not even keep to-
gether; brief period seems to comprise
the married life, when they seperate,
each to follow its solitary life.
Year: 1873

Dear Sir: Yours of the Goth ultimo
only reached me at tlfis place Yesterday.
/ am lecturing i'll the West, and shall
not return to New York for several days
vet.


Ny own course Uniformity has been
TO stick to any thing | could find to do,
and never leave place so long as any
work remained to be done there. i think
you will find that the wise course 1t.
may seem that larger wages may be
earned elsewhere; but exPenes are usu-
ally prOportionate to earning, and re-
mOval exposes one to the loss of all the
position or reputation he may have gain
ed. Character is the basis of business
and prosperity, and charcter is more
easily developed in the country than in
the city, Men seldom bound to fortune
or position; they must grow. After a
few years you will be wsnted to con-
duct a journal lin your own region;
look carefully into the inducements,
and be not too hasty in accepting, for
your time will come. Be careful OF
debt: he who owes nothing, and has a
chance to earn his daily bread is hap
pier than he is aware OF, Make friends
and gain knowledge; few years Will
render them useful to you. With hearty
good wishes, j remain yours,


HORACE GREELEY.
Year: 1873

word was spoken. Our very heart
strings might have snapped with their
terrible tension We turned project
ing angle of the wood, and square,
black object, half buried In a rank tan
gle of weeds and grass, was before us.
We had found the Lost Cabin! nothing
now but an empty pen of scorched and
blackened logs. @


I disentangled pick from one of our
packs, and stepped within the in
closure. It, too, was choked with weeds
and, bending them aside, I saw, grin;
ming upon us in its hideous solitude, a
human skull! Poor Harry! The In
dians had intended that his cabin should
be his funeral pyre, but only the lighter
materials of the roof had ignited, and
the green logs had refused to burn. L
struck the pick into the ground, nea,
the center of the cabin. Once more /
lifted it, and drove the long wedge of
iron to the handle in the loose soil.
The point fastened in some hard sab
stance; and, at the same instant, Har-
per, uttering o cry of mortal anguish,
fell heavily at my feet, a rife-shot roar
ed in my ear-and I dropped into
oblivion


Then it was night-a long, starless,
and dreamless night of clouded intel
lect and slumbering soul. When the
cunning forces of Nature had repaired
the fragile structure, and the dawn of
reason came, they were telling the
story of a stage-driver ON the Oregon
and California route, who, many months
before, had captured a nude and sun
bronzed wild -gibbering like a
monkey, but harmless as a babe-near
the boundary-line, and had sent him
north to Portland. 1t was the story of
my own rescue from the southern wilds.


For the rest, Harper must have fallen
by the accidental discharge of his own
rifle; and my mind, strung by the high
excitement of the search, weakened by
the despotism of one absorbing idea,
and dazed by the apparent interposition
of the supernatural, had given way I'M
der the shock, and the mere instincts of
of the animal nature had provided me
with sustenance, and prolonged my
life
Year: 1873




Consider the seas listless chime:
Times self it is, made audible
The murmur Of the earth's own shall
Secret continuance sublime
Is the seRh end: one sight NAV mass
No furlong further. Since time was.
This sound hath told the lapse Of time.
No quiet, which is death's,-it hath
The mournfulness Of ancient life
Enduring always at dull strife.
As the worlds heart of REST ana wrath
Its painful pulse is in the sands.
lost utterly, the whole sky stands,
NsrSy and not known, along its path.
Listen alone beside the se..
Listen alone among the woods.
Those voices of twin solitudes
snail nave one sound alike to thee.
hark where the murmurs of thronoed mel
ourge ana shrink back and surge again.
Gun the one voice Of wave and tree.
Gather shell from the strown beach
And Ana listen at its lips: they sigh
me same desire and mystery,
Inc echo of the whole seas speech.
And all mankind is thus at heart
Not anything but what thou art:
And Earth, Sea, Man, are all in each.
Year: 1873

and nearly simultaneously breaches Of
the. Congressman's head and of the
privileges of the House." For this
offense they tried the man of misfor-
tune on the floor, In Police Court, and
wherever he could be dragged; but he
compelled a verdict of character at the
hands of the very cock-sparrow who had
DETAINED him. Then shaking the dust
of Washington from his feet, he retu1n-
ed to the wilds of Arkansas, and read
Horace till the beauty Of life and career
were born again, and, with freshed
spirit, he saw his opportunity in Texas.
To that great new State he became de-
liverer and President, and, with mag
unanimous patriotism, he led the CON
quest to the capital and the nation
which had cast him off
Year: 1873

Gas was discovered in 1879, but it
was only devoted to illuminating pur-
poses i'll 1892; it was first permanently
used for illumination at Manchester in
1905; two years afterwards gas was in
troduced into one of the streets in Lon
don: from that time it's use has been ex-
tended throughout the world. What
we owe to the services of this valuable
invention would be long tale to tell;
but what if gas is to be superseded by
something at once more intrinsically
valuable, and yet, strange to say. cheap,
er? There is probability of this at all
events. A French chemist, it is said,
has discovered new light as superior
to gas as gas is to oil. The new oxyhdric
light has been most successfully ex-
hibited at the Crystal Palace, London,
and the new light is so powerful that it
actually causes flame from gas to cast a
shadow. The oxyhydric light is white,
clear and healthy
Year: 1873

AT fair in New York there is offer
ed for sale an "Antidote " for Love-" the
contents of one vial of which are said
to be cure for the most aggravated
case. The Contents" are meat little
mitten."
Year: 1873

-Endeavor to do your work quietly.
Anxiety and over-action are always the
cause of illness and restlessness. We
must use our judgment to control our
excitement, or our bodily strength will
break down. We must remember that
our own battle is to be won by a strength
not our Own. 1t is battle that does
not depend upon the swift nor the
strong.