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Year: 1872

The continual changes in the pos
tai laws of the country require per-
sons to keep continually on the qui
vive, or else to run the risk of having
their correspondence quietly dumped
into the dead letter office


Under the old law the rate of pos
tage for mail matter was three cents
per half ounce for letters, and the
regulation provided that in case the
requisite number of stamps to pay the
full postage was not attached to a
letter, the postmaster at the place of
destination was required to collect
the remainder. For instance if a let
ter which weighed one ounce only had
a three cent stamp attached, it went
on to its destination and the remain
ing three cents due upon it was COL
Iected there. The law in this respect
has been materially changed. Under
a decision of the Postoffice authorities
Postmasters are required to collect
double the amount which remains un-
paid. Double postage is also of
course to be collected on wholly un-
paid matter Which may by chance
reach the office of destination. This
is under the new Code. Section 152.
Letter writers aud business men will
avoid much confusion in future by
bearing in mind the new law on the
subject.
Year: 1872

A queer country is China; coun-
try where roses have no fragrance
and women no petticOats; where the
laborer has no sabbath and the magis-
trate no sense of honor; where the
roads bear no vehiles and the ships
no keels; where old men fly kites and
the needle points to the South /;
where the place of honor is on the
left hand and the seat of intellect is
in the stomach; where to take off
your hat is an insoleut gesture and
to wear white garments is mourning ;
which has a literature without an al
phabet and a language without a
grammar. ....-.- e...
Year: 1872

We are pleased to, state that
Bristol is steadily and continuously
progressing. We believe that its
population has been increased fully
one thousand since the census of
1870, and when the next national
enumeration shall have been taken
in 1880 it will probably accord to
it a population of between six and
ten thousand. If the A. NJ. &
Ohio Railroad extension shonld be
made as speedily as we think it will,
the census of 1880 will accord to
rs AT LEAST ten thousand inhabi-
tants. .-.s .


Besides King College for young
gentleman and its Primary depart
ment for Boys, we have three
Female schools. Our country
roads are beginning to receive due
attention and those enterprises
which border on manufactures are
already beginning to tell handsome
IL on our trade and to foreshadow
something larger. The scgrega-
ton of trade into special depart
ments is already taking shape and
the quantity of cash trade which
we are doing is in excess of that of
any three towns between Lynch
burg and Knoxville. AS to the
work Of erecting new houses and
improving old ones there is simply
no cessation TO it during the entire
year. Fully 100 building have
gone up within a twelve month
What we are doing it would be
difficult to summarize, but no one
starves in our town. Bristol march
ca steadily towards the practical
definition of the word city.
Year: 1872

Senator Chandler said in recent
speech in New Jersey that he had
looked all over Detroit and found on
ly three Greeley men. Considering
how internally drunk he was Nat the
time, it is strange that he was able
to find even that many.-Courie1'
J0trndi. H-sA H"at't
Year: 1872

SUPREME CoURT-This tribunal, at its
late term passed upon another case which
excited at the time of trial much interest
in Shasta county-The People vs.. Grant
and Cullen. On the trial here the defence
demurred to the indictment on the ground
that it charged more than ore offence
charging both the crime of robbery, and of
being accessory to that offence. The de-
murrer was over-ruled, the defendants tried
separately and convicted They then fled
motion for new trials, which we're denied.
They appealed to the Supreme Court,
where the case was argued by Woods and
Garter for the appellants and by the At
torney- General for the People. The Court
decided that no error had interyened in
the proceedings and the judgments must
be affirmed in each case.


This decision will give great satisfaction
to our readers. The prisoners, at their
trial before Judge Hopping, we're defend
ed by able counsel, and it is gratifying to
know that from the efficient manner in
which the case was conducted by District
Attorney Taylor, combined With the just
ruling of the county Judge, these villains
will get their just deserts, instead of being
turned forth to resume their career of rob-
berry, as would doubtless be the case were
. new trial ordered.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Sumner is evidently determined to
sever the last tie which binds him to the
Republican party Since the re-assembling
Of Congress he has presented for its con-
sideration this resolution


Whereas, National unity and goodwill among
fellow citizens can be assured only through the OBJ
lyion of past differences, and it is contrary to the
usage of civilized nations to perpetuate the memo
~ of civil war; therefore, be it enacted etc., that
the names Of battles with fellow citizens shall not
be continued in the Army Register, or placed on
the regmental colors of the United States.


1t is difficult to determine what effect
Mr. Sumner thinks the above resolution
will have. Is it to be followed by one
which will declare that hereafter, no pen
sion shall be paid to any widow or orphan
of oae killedin action between fellowcltl-
zens Certainly there would be just as
much sense in the one resolution as In the
other. The war between the States is part
of our history which, no man not made in
sane by disappointed schemes Of self ag-
grandizement, would wish to see forgotten,
or diskonored. From it has sprung one of
the grandcst triumphs of Freedom which
history will record Each and every man
who has borne his part therein, feels that
he has, 10 a measure contributed to this
grand result, and any attempt to cloud the
memory of that struggle and triumph, is a
slur upon the patriotism Of the Americae
people.


None are more ready to forgive, and for
get all that should be forgotten of our great
national contest, than the men who periled
life and limb for the life of their country.
But there are some memories which, al
though they may be forgiven, cannot be
forgotten. 1t was not battle between
hired mercenaries, fighting in the interests
of tJrannical despots, but between citizen
soldiery, impelled by the highest and purest
motives by which men can be actuated.-
Each side believed its cause to be just and
fought bravely in the strength Of ths. pe.
liet. In the memories Of tsil t..ls civil war
there is much to be cherished by the de.
feated Sou!taa, as well as by the victorious
NSrth. And the results of the contest
have been such, that before the close of
the century, the South will esteem its de-
feat, which swept the curse OF slavery from
its limits, as the greatest blessing which
could have been granted her. Even as
England now cherishes the memories of
Flodden Field and Marston Moor; and
Scotland the battle ground of Killiekrankie,
as historic deeds which add to the common
glory of the land; so will the day come,
perhaps in the life of the present genera
ton or Of the next, when the people of the
North and of the South will alike feel a
just and glowing pride in our civil war, its
struggles, its trials and its results


We opine that Mr.. Summers resolution
will meet the fate OF McCreery's, which pro-
posed to exhume tho Federal dead, buried
at Arlington, that the ground might be re.
stored to it's rebel owners But while pa
triotism finds home in the American heart,
the spleen of misanthropic place seeker
will not be permitted to cast odium upon
the blood bought victories of four years
of wap
Year: 1872

New YEARS BALL-Mr. Scott gives
notice in the usual manner, that in accord
ance with his annual custom, grand ball
and supper will be given at the Empire
Hotel ON Tuesday evening the 3lst inst =
Those who have attended the New Years
Balls at the Empire need no urging to 90
to this one, but those who were not here
then are advised to go if they wish to enjoy
a good time.
Year: 1872

GREAT Unsatisfactory Clerk
Bickford has exchanged Great Registers
with the Clerks of several other counties
until he has some fifteen or twenty on hand.
As works of reference to ascertain the
whereabouts of voters they possess certain
value. Bickford thinks it would have been
good provision Of the law to have made
itincumbenton County Clerks to exchange,
and we agree with him.
Year: 1872

The San Francisco Commercial Herald
says the rich and extensive cinnabar deposit
lately discovered in Trinity valley are being
tested BY competent expert on behalf Of
leading San Francisco capitalists, and that if
the report is favorable the lodes will be i'm.
mediately opened up.
Year: 1872

FURNITURE SToRE.-At Redding, the
other day; we took look at the Furniture
Store of Frank Miller. His stock COM
prises a full assortment of the latest styles
OF household, bed room and kitchen furni-
ture, and we advise those needing articles
in that line to pay him visit See his
advertisement in this issue.
Year: 1872

SIx-DoLLAR SILK HATs.-P. WkISIGER y Co.,
1871 Main street, have now the best IS silk hat they
have ever sold. Having made special arrangement
with the manufacturer they can now offer really
fine hat for that price.
Year: 1872

During the late visit of Red Cloud and
his party to New York, they went to
the Olympic Theater to witness the
funny pantomime of Humpty Dumpty.
The HcraH says:


They stalked into the theater cool as
cucumber, and took orchestra chairs
without saying word. Red Dog had a
big ten cent fan that some lady ad.
mirer had given him in dollar store,
and he felt so happy that he took off
his broadcloth coat-he had left his
claw hammer at the hotel-and sat the
performance out in his shirt sleeves.
They were delighted with the panto-
mime; children and savage> prefer the
pantomimc. The Wild Indian is a stolid
being naturally; he does not believe in
manifesting astonishment or surprise at
anything, but the ballet was too much
for their gravity. Before Blue Horse
was half an hour in the theater he had
fallen desperately in love with a shapely
girl who performed as Il coryphee in the
ballet. This yeung lady saw the atfec-
ton beaming visbly out of the eyes of
Blue Horse, and it touched her heart so
deeply that she jumped three times as
high in every movement as her salary
permitted. Red Dog enjoyed the
tricks very much, such as jumping
through clock, or when a mechanical
ann hanging over a door smashed the
stupid Pantaoon on the head, the Sioux
looked at each other with frantic de-
light. But Little Wound, who is a
magnificent scalper, could not for the
life Of him understand Fox as the
clown. He had never before seen man
without any hair on his head, and his
chalked face and smooth, chalked scalp
puzzled his giant intellect. Here was
mean advantage taken of the infantile
Sioux mind. A man without hair
Such a thing had never been known,
even by the oldest medicine man of the
tribe. 1t was not fair-a man without
hair-there was no objective point for n
scalping knife, and when Fox opened
his mouth in his ghastly way shudder
of superstitious horror ran through the
manly frame of Blue Horse, and a chill
crcpt down his back
Year: 1872

Julius Ende. an unemployed printer
and his wife were found on the 9th in
the third story of the Hotel Lutz, in
Washington, lying on u bed apparently
lifcless. On one side of the bed was a
coal hod about half full of blood. and
on the other side wash basin contain
ing blood. The blood from the man
had been flowing into the hod, and that
from the woman into the basin. Ende
and wife had cuts in the left arm, near
the elbow. and the former also had n
cut in the right ankle. Physicians were
summoned, and after several hours
labor restored the wounded people to
consciousness, when they stated that
because of adverse circumstances they
were brought to deep poverty, and be-
coming tired of life attempted to kill
themselves. They had taken laudanum
before using the knife, but it had not
the desired effect. Among the papers
found in the room was Ende's commits
sion as Lieutenant of the Fifty eighth
New York volunteers, signed by Gov.
Seymour, October, 1868. Gov. Cook
gave q permit to have Ende and wife
taken to Providence Hospital for treat
mpnt
Year: 1872

Fibs " to children are outrages on
the innocent. When DR.. Chalmers
was staying at a great house where there
was much company, a lady was desirous
of hearing his conversation through the
evening, but her child was sleepy. The
mother accompanied the little one to
the chamber and soon returned to the
drawing room, where she boasted of her
quick success by the stratagem of put
ting on her gown and night-cap and
seeming to go to bed with the child, and
the ruSc had the desired effect. The
good and great doctor had the courage
to rebuke her for letting the last thing
which the child heard from her mother
be lie


A gentleman made it u rule to have
his children hear nothing but truth, if
practicable. A visitor endeavored to
coax Il reluctant child to come to him,
promising her trinket which hung to
his watch chain. The child yielded.
When the visitor rose to go, the father
reminded him of his promise. Oh, he
had no such intention 1t was just a
playful tib! "You should not have
promised, but having promised you are
bound to do as you said. never per-
nit lies to be told to my children. For
the whole value OF your piece of .jewelry
| would not have my child suppose that
| could encourage the visits of liar"
He gave the trinket. 1t was a severe
lesson. | say nothing as to the propri-
ETY. of the fathers course, but the visi-
tor should not have "tibbed" to the
cbill
Year: 1872

A curious case Of assault and battery
was lately brought before the polio,
tribunal at Marscilles. 1t appears that
diver, engaged in investigating the
wreck of vessel sunk in the port OF
that city, discovered an object of some
value, which he put aside in a corner
of rock for future disposition. Re-
turning for the last time beneath the
surface, he went to secure his prize, but
at that moment two other divers at
tackled him and attempted to wrest it
from him. A lively fight ensued, which
lasted till the people above, alarmed at
the confusion below, drew the combat
ants up to the surface. The aitray thus
commenced, fifty or sixty feet below
the surface of the water, was ended at
the police station.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Thomas Fitzpatrick put his two
road mares to the pole early in the
spring. As both are good steppers they
promise to mske rapid team. Both
are little high strung, and each seems
to have a good opinion of himself. The
two were cour urteously polite to each
other, but there was no strong display
Of affection. While gently driving in
Central Park one day, the sorrel mare
made an awkward step, and cut the bay
mare on the ankle. The accident ap-
peared to stir up bad blood. Maddened
with pain, the bay mare bit the sorrel
and this act of hostility was quickly re.
sented. The mares now forgot their
politeness, and each struggled to intlict
as much injury upon the other as pos
sible. On arriving at the stables and
being detached from the wagon, instead
of walking quietly to their stalls, they
TUNED upon each other with great fury
and engaged in a savage fight. They
were separated with some difficulty.
But now it is out of the question to
drive them together. When they come
within sight of each other, the eyes
flash and the nostrils snort defiance If
left to themselves, they would surely
engage in conflict bitter and remorse-
less in the extreme.-Iurf, Field, and
Farm.
Year: 1872

A man and wife living at Long Lake,
in the Adirondack region, were nearly
two weeks since fishing there at nearly
dark. They were sitting on rock in
the lake-the woman with a handker-
chief over her head. One Palmer. a
guide, with companion was rowing
across the lake, and, noticing the white
handkerchief, inquired what it was. The
opinion was given that it was a gull.
when Palmer, replying that he would
soon decide, drew up his rifle and fired.
The distance was somewhat greater than
he had thought, and the ball, falling,
struck the woman in the breast, killing
her almost instantly. Palmer is said tc
have become almost insane because OF
the result of his shot.
Year: 1872

The police of London have discovered
in secluded alley Of the metropolis, an
establishment in which children are
manned to order. Begging is one ofthe
most profitable of the occupations which
do not require money capital, and beg
gar with a distorted face or twisted leg
can easily surpass his fellows in the
gains of this disgraceful trade. Hence,
parents deliberately consign their
children to torture, for the sake of reap
ing the profits of their Disagreement.
The firm that mangled the innooents
had a curiously- graduated scale of
charges. A child under a year old
could have its leg satisfactorily twisted
for seven dollars. For one six months
older, the operation cost ten. Other
injuries were inflicted at reasonable
rates. For thirty dollars, any child
could be transformed into mass of de-
formities. These revolving details show
the results of the wasteful and wicked
benevolence which makes begging more
profitable than honest industry,
Year: 1872

The hall in which the Geneva court
of arbitration holds its sessions is an Or
dinary drawing-room, the windows look
ing out upon neat little garden in the
very center of the city. The ante-room
through which the commissioners and
secretaries enter the hall Of congress is
called the marriage chamber, and is re-
garded by sentmentalists as significant
of the approach of happy union be-
tween the two great nations.
Year: 1872

CLAIM attorneys are offering to collect
for one legged and one-Mmed soldiers
the increase of pensions due them by
act of the late Congress. Our mutilatcd
heroes should observe that, by waiting
patiently, they will receive the increase
just as early through the proper chan


nels, free of expense. The Commits
sioner OF Pensions will soon announce
the steps necessary to establish claim
Year: 1872

The following is an extract from Il
private letter dated Trieste, June 4
" You will of course have known by
this time that Charles Lever is now a
name of the past. lie died quietly and
without a struggle, in his sleep, on Sat,
urday last, between - and , p. r..
When saw his remains, a little before
5, he was lying with his coat and waist
coat Oft, on his right side, with his head
resting on his right hand. But for the
perfect stiffness and the gray look upon
the face, he might have been sleeping
only. The hearts action simply died
out. Poor fellow il was the death he
wished for, rs he greatly dreaded a long
and painful struggle. We laid his re
mains beside those of his wife, last even
ing, at little after 6. Her death broke
his heart. From the time she died his
recent illness dated, and he has not re.
manned ong behind her | never saw
a man who attached TO himself those
who were at all intimate with him as
he did. knew him but for a short
period, and really loved him. He had
an immense funeral. He left his affairs
thoroughly arranged; the very money
for the expenses of the interment was
found in an envelope, with these ords {:
The modest sum | wish expended on
my funeral"
Year: 1872

AIR castles are as old as Adam, as | be-
lieve there is not man, woman or child
but what has, or is building them. And
they will continue to build and be built so
long as there is a living person on the earth.
The child looks forward to the time when il
will be grown to manhood or womanhood,
and tells what it will do and be when it
reaches that passage Of life.
Year: 1872

The GRANTEES hatter themselves that the
friends of Mr.. Greeley are stinied in their
expenditures. TO this the Cincinnati En-
quirer responds that it is true that we can't
kick the bottom out of the Treasury when
ever we feel like it, and we haven't got a
thief or two in our employ in every town and
village of the country, but will raise fund
sufficiently large to print tickets, and that's
all that will be required this Fall.
Year: 1872

THE roses of pleasure seldom last long
enough TO adorn the brow Of him who plucks
them. and they are the only roses which DO
not retain their sweetness after they have
lost their beauty.
Year: 1872

TERRIFIC COMBAT WITH MosQuIro


A tuneful mosquito has had his from


bone reconstructed, and begins the new


season in animated style. a Newark


man received call the other day from


his long lost brother, who lives in Cali


iornia. lie assigned the spare room to


him and bidding him an affectionate


goodnight, retired to rest, only to have


his slumbers disturbed soon after by an


incipient earthquake up stairs. Hastily


donning his trowsers, he proceeded to the


long lost brothers. room, from whence the


uproar came. When the unbrided broth


er went to bed he had thrown open his


window to draw untrammeled breath, and
preserve the idea Of his native freedom.
The mosquito scented foreign produce


from afar, whctted up his knife and fork
upon the stone window sill, and humming
a short grace before meat, took a chair
upon the Caiforuians nose, and, tucking
his napkin under his chin, set to work
The sensitive foreigner said an uugcntle
thing about the musical bird Of night and
springing from his couch, struck light
to meet his adversary face to face. No
sooner had he deserted MIN than with
uplifted pillow, he smote upon the wall
where sat the patient insect, who went
skimmipg away and left the spot bare.
Two more unsuccessful attempts upon the
life exasperatcd the long lost
brother, and the scene became exciting.
Blow followed blow in quick succession,
as the irate Californian danced in fantas-
tic pursuit around the ROOM Just as he |
had taken n careful aim at the artlul |
dodger, who sat upon panel of the door
enjoying the sport, the proprietor Of the
popped his head in and received
the whack intended for the mosquito full
in the face. He lay down Immediately
and called for the neighbors. When out
side rcinforcements appeared an entrance
was affected into the room, and fearful
scene of ruin met the gaze of the intrud-
ers. The only whole remaining article
was The bedstead upon which sat the
lisconsolate Californian, picking the frag-
nents of the looking glass out of his bare
feet, and saying terrible things. He was
nconsolablc, and the next day he left
or California, without offering to pay for
he broken furniture.