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Year: 1872

Most persons who are in the habit of
frcshening mackercl or other salt fish
never dean ihaI there is right and
wrong way TO do it.. any person who
has seen the process Of evaporation CO.
ing on at the salt works, knows that
the salt goes TO The bottom. Just so 1t
is in the pan, where yonr mackerel or
white fish lies soaking and as it lays
with the SKIN down, the salt falls 10
the skin, and there remain, when, j,
placed with the flesh side down, the
val. falls to the bottom Of The pan, and
the fish comes out freshencd as it should
bo. In tho other case il is nearly as
salt 40 when put in
Year: 1872

All our advioes from Washington
and elsewhere lead to the conviction
that as a last desperate means Of re.
eleoting Graut, his managers con,om.
plate bringing on war with Spain,
with Cuba for It's pretexts. They
care no more about Cuban freedom
now than at any time these three
years but o foreign war will, they
think, make Grants denomination
and reelection certain. But it is not
war that Cnba apks Of us all that
che needs is that we should recognize
her belligerency and all the rest she
can take care Of for herself NeW
York Sun.
Year: 1872

A man in Wisconsin has applied for
a divorce upon tho ground that his
wife m'r'ied him under false preten-
ses. liz says she told him while he
while hc was addressing her that she
could hoe an acre of potatoes and
split two cords Of wood before break
fast and dinner and sho had proved
herself a fearful fraud, because sho
could only split half q cord and hoe
only three times across the field. It
seoms hard that men arc continually y
to be made the victims Of these do.
signing women. Why will wives ttife
in this manner with the tenderest af-
feotions Of thier husbands +? Why
will they thus shatter their heart
strings !
Year: 1872

every day is in itself almost better
than any mere use of the muscles. If
walking seems tame and wearisome, it
is generally a sign of a vitiated taste
for excitement, or of exceptional bod
lily weakness. A good walker-and
almost any one may become such by
practice-fnds pleasure in the play
of his muscles like that which the II
der or oarsman enjoys.


In the country, especially, the habit
is favorable to the cultivation of that
love OF nature which gives more
pleasure than almost any other taste.
There are few finer conditions of body
than that induced by a vigorous walk
in our braeing American atmosphere.
How many of our readers treasure
among their choicest remembrances
glorious days among the Alps? One
great element of the, pleasure there
was due to the.combined effects of the
air and the bodily eXel'tion of walking
or climbing. If any one says he en-
joyed Switzerland and did no walking,
we tell him he missed one of the great
sources OF pleasure there. The soul
is never so sensitive to every form of
enjoyment as when its medium, the
body, is tense and clear. It is then
that the sense of beauty is keenest,
and the play of all the nobler faculties
treest. Nothing is at once so conducive
to this and so easily within the reach
OF every well person, as a long, free,
fast walk.-Christian Union.
Year: 1872

There is no breastwork against evil,


and no school of virtue and moral


worth, like a good home. And the


good home is not merely that which


furnishes edible dinners, and well-kept


rooms, and clean beds, but that which


furnishes most satisfaction, refresh


ment and joy to all its inmates. And


evening is the only time when all the


members of the family circle meet to-


gether, and can mingle in happy and
joyous intercourse. The occasion
should be provided for as it usually is
not. Our home-keepers should take
the hint from those who furnish pub
lie entertainments, and lavish thought
and ingenuity enough upon the occa-
sion to make it so attractive and de-
lightful and satisfying that every
member of the household will feel the
happier for it, and look forward to its
return with expectancy, and be be-
yond the reach of the ten thousand
temptations to spend the evening
hours elsewhere.


Exactly how this is to be done must
be answered by housekeepers for
themselves. They have resources and
ingenuity enough, will they but once
see the Importance of the thing, and
set their wits at work to develop the
hint into a beautiful and joyous real
ity. We do not mean that every
body should spend every evening at
home. Let there be fer all profitable
and entertaining amusement going.
Still it will be found that the great
public entertainments often excite
more than they delight OF edify, and,
if often indulged in, produce weari-
ness, and dissipation worse than fa-
tigue. The evenings at home furnish
the fitting alternate and contrast to
these public entertainments, and each
is enjoyed the more for the other.
And to make the evenings at home
truly delightful, every resource ofcul-
ture and pleasure may be rightly in
voked. Why not have a succession of
evening entertainments, giving one to
reading, another to music, a third to
conversation, a fourth to a drama, and
a fifth to miscellaneous plays? Why
not import into the home circle some
of the talent to amuse, and entertain,
and edify, which lies about, waiting
for the invitation2 And what one
family cannot do alone, two or three
together can easily effect. Were our
people to spend a tenth part of the
time and interest they now throw
away on worthless exeitements and
utter frivolities, in making their
homes truly helpful and happy, we
should prevent half the crimes, and
ctop half the vices of society at their
rce.-Golden Age.
Year: 1872

The brilliant editor of that erratie
sheet, the New Orleans MitrdiIeuse.
which like direful comet, portend-
ing war, pestilenee and famine, shot
athwart the political horizon few
days ago, leaving a train of fiery light
which struck terror to the hearts of
the weak and paralyzed the strong,
has at last achieved the dearest wish
OF his soul-he is become mar
tyr For a gross breach of parlia-
mentary decorum in lampooning his
fellow Legislators and caricaturing and
attempting to bring ridicule upon the
colored members, he was called to the
bar of the House and rebuked by the
Speaker, as he deserved to be. In
this simple circumstance the fearful
soul OF the Doctor sees a death blow
given to the liberty of the press, and
i'll words Hthat breathe and thoughts
that burnn the irascible ink-slinger
calls upon his editorial brethren to
rush to his assistance and preserve in
violate; if it be possible, the freedom
of the press.


The journalistic ours of the Custom
House Clique will nobly respond to
your despairing cry, Doctor, and
" Sweetheart, Blanche and Tray y will
make the welkin ring with spiteftH
yelpings. The big dog of the pack,
the National Republican, has already
raised its voice i'll your behalf as the
champion of an untrammeled press.
The praise of that mongel barkerm1st
be sweet incense to your puerile van
ity, o prosecuted disciple of Spur
helm, Solon and Esculapius!


These are woftll times, Hon. Thorn
as d. Worrall, III. ID. and ASS, and
when the Governor refused to listen
to your sage counsel, we knew the
ship of State must founder in the
black sea of knavery, corruption and
political anarehy.-Iberrilte Meas.
Year: 1872

An editor i'll Harrisburg, Pennsyl-


vanla, lost his pass on the railroad and


requested the officers to secure the ar


rest of any man who would present it.


The next day he found the pass in the


pocket of his Sunday trousers, and


proceeded to take a trip upon'it. As


soon as he offered it to the conductor,


that faithful officer knocked him on


the head with his lantern, called three


brakemen and the baggage master:


dragged him despite his frantic strup


giles, along. the floor, into the baggage
car, where brakeman sat upon him


while the conductor battered him up
lot TO keep him quiet; and then they
searched him to see what other thefts
he had been perpetrating. With the
exception of ticket to the circus.
that man had upon his person abso-
lutely nothing but railroad passes.
He had passes over all the main roads
and branch lines and feeders and
slidings in the State of Pennsylvania.
He had free passes in Eastern, South
ern, Middle, and Western States, and
four i'll the territories. He had pass
over Il railroad from Yeddo to Yoke
hama, and another from Calcutta to
Bengal. He had a letter promising
him one on new road which is pro-
posed in Terra del Fuego, and man
uscript puff which he had written for
a man who had assured him he should
have a pass over the road which he
said he was about to run under the
Mediterranean from Africa to Italy as
soon as it was built. The conductor
concluded he had caught the greatest
pass kleptomaniac the world ever saw.
But when he got back to Harrisburg
the affair was explained. And now, if
there is any one editor in America,
who is completely sick of gentle
manly conductors" that editor re-
sides in the State of Pennsylvania.
Year: 1872

President Smith of Dartmouth Col
lege, used to set type in a printing Of
tice in Windsor, Vermont. He says
that the experience was of great use
to him, as it taught him to spell cor
rectly, and he thinks he is a better
college president for having been a
printer. Here is a double moral: If
You want to learn to spell correctly
or become the president of college,
begin your career of letters with set
ting type.
Year: 1872




of wisdom herewith appended are ta-
ken from the London Society:


After all, in the looking out for a
wife, a man must consider how she
will show at the fireside, rather than
at parties. You can learn so much of
literary and athletic tastes, the favor
ite books that are always in hand, the
music that is regularly studied and
sung, the kind of associations, and the
general order of tastes. 1t is by far
the best way of getting a Irritation,
which is not unpleasantly done and
benignant. Love making is an un-
commonly pleasant employment for
the winter nights. You may talk of
the perils of young men when they
come up to town; but there is no bet
ter safeguard than giving such young
fellows the associations of home and
sweet woman. Parents make an i'm
mense mistake in taking too severe
ly monetary view of a young fellows
prospects. Inever knew a young fell
low under ever so dark a cloud who,
with purpose and ability, could not
work out his own way into the sun
light. Better even the long engage
ment OF the early marriage than many.
other suppositions that might be put.
Year: 1872

An expedition fitted out more than
a year ago to search for DR.. Ujiji Liv-
ingstone, is still on the march through
the wilds of Africa. As loser of
himself. DR.. Livingstone is without
q parallel in history. For our part,
we can't see the use in spending so
much time and money to find man
who can't be hired to stay found, and
who is never happy except when he
is lost.-COufier- Journal.
Year: 1872

A burglar proof safe has been in
vented in London. The walls of the
door have a charge of nitro glyceIine
in them, and when the thief taps the
safe with his little chisel the charge
explodes and blows him to pieces.
Also the safe and the building.
Year: 1872

A correspondent inquired of Horace
Greeley if guano was good to put on
potatoes. He said it might do for
those whose tastes had become Vita
ted with tobacco and rum, but he pre-
ferred gravy and butter.
Year: 1872

The little uDpleasantness which for
a time disturbed the harmony of the
Republican party, and threatened the
peace of the State, has been quieted
by the union of the two factions in
one House of Representatives and in
one Senate. Gov. Warmoth has gain
ed a signaltriumph oyerhis opponents,
and we hope will improve it by a just,
wise and economical administration of
the affairs of the State as we believe
he will. We have no condemnation
to pronounce against either faction
we believe both have committed
grave faults but we think large
majority of the members of both were
actuated by just motives. Let as
hare peace.-MadisoR Journal.
Year: 1872

CoLEurpGE once having occasion to
20 from home, his wife packed his
portmanteau, and gave him strict or
ders to put on clean shirt every day.
On his return imagine her distress in
finding his portmanteau shirtless. But
inquiry developed the fact that her
absent minded, unworldly husband had
obeyed her order to the letter, having
put on clean shirt every morning,
but had forgotten to take the soiled
lie OIL. And there the seven were on
h,S back.
Year: 1872

An exchange says: "Cleveland has
invented patent bug buster, worked
with an air pump. All the apertureS
in room arc stopped but one, at
which the deadly bug buster Is placed.
BY exhausting the receiver current
OF air is produced strong enough to
draw all the vermin out Of the room,
through the air-pump, into the hopper,
where they are put under the influence
OF chloroform, and stabbed In the back
with a pitchfork.
Year: 1872

MARK TWAIN says Franklin was al
ways proud of telling how he entered
Philadelphia for the first time with
nothing In the world but two shillings


In his pocket, and four rolls of bread
under his arm. But really it was no.
thing. Anybody could have done 1t.
Year: 1872

The claimant in the Tichborne case,
now in prison on the charge of perjury,
stillinsists upon the justice of his claims,
and promises to call two hundred adj
ditional witnesses in his behalfif money
should be forthcoming to pay the ex-
penses of new trial. He has appealed
to the public to subscribe to fund to
enable him to prosecute his case, and to
secure his release from Newgate upon
bail. Though there are few intelligent
persons who are not fully convinced that
the claimant is an impostor, and though
no more Tichborne. bonds" can be
sold at any price, it is not impossible
that money will be subscribed in order
to insure the reproduction of spectacle
so interesting as the Tichborne case has
proved to be. 1t is indeed improbable
that any large sum will thus be raised,
but if those who still believe in the
claimants case, those who still believe
in the claimants case, those who do not
think he was treated precisely fairly by
the presiding Judge, and those who
would like the amusement of another
trial, should subscribe to the new fund,
the claimant may yet be able to appear
once more as plaintiff in court.
Year: 1872

BY EMILY n. MOORE.
have put them away. yes. everything.
The pale pressed rose and the sumach red
The sweet syringa we picked in June;
And the bitter-sweet. when Summer was dead
The wake-robin leaf that you sent me in March
And the adder-tongue of the later Spring;
The spray we plueked from the locust bough.
When our souls together did kiss and cling.
Your calm-eyed portrait; the monogram
You made of our names with graceful art;
The ring you gave me; your letters warm
With the words that leap from Loves rod


heart.


ridden away. where by never a chance
They may come like knife-thrusts to nay eyes
Hidden away. as we hide the things
Sacred to one beloved, who dies.
So easyl-the click Of the steely lock-
The box tossed into the unused chest
Another lock-then the bolted door
And turn back to life + The Past is--ai
There are nobler gods than this false god


LOVE


Who dims the soul and unnerves the hand;
way-side tempter II leave him behind.
For the snow pure heights where the true gods
stand.


"The Past is at rest?" laughs the scorned god.
Are the stars gone out of the summer skyp
Have the waves ceased murmuring to the shorei
Do breeze and sunlight and music die?
Can you stay the earth from her blossom time ?
Syringas and roses will come again,
And the locust cast from his honied bough
The breath that shall smite you like deadly


pain.


Bury your withered leaves in box
Ay, bury the letters and everythingl
Can you bury even one little ray
Of the sunsets you two have watched in the


Spring?


Can you bury the moon that has kissed you


both.
In the soft warm air of August nights?
Or the earth where your feet have together trod.
The common sounds and the common sights
"Can you put the sweet south wind under lock.
That you walked with one day on the wooded


hill?


The wild birds songs and the tunes you loved
VIII they be hushed and forever still?
When you have put all these in box
And buried them deep in an unused chest"
(The smile of the god was bitter rs death)
Then you shall feel that the Past is--at restP
Year: 1872

Mr.. Williams, of Indiana, Chairman
of the Committee on Expenditures in
the War Department, has made re-
port, with the testimony taken, on the
investigation into the sale of arms and
ordnance stores during the Franco
Prussian war; The committee reports
the following conclusions .


/. That the act of Congress of July
20, 1867, authorizing the sale of insult
able arms, gave, by fair Interpretation
the Secretary of War to sell and dispose
of the arms and ordnance stores in ques-
ton, and that in doing so he violated
neither the letter nor the spirit of the
law.


2. That the proceeds of the sale were
promptly paid into the treasury.


8. That no sales were made to any
known agent of either of the belligerent
governments, and that no act was done
by the Secretary of War OF any OF his
subordinates, that was calculated to inn
pair or violate any international obliga-
ton.


4. That no official of the United
States Government was pecuniarily ben
Gifted in connection with the sales.


5. That the only party benefited was
the government of the United States,
in having disposed of unsuitable arms
at the highest market price to the
amount of nearly $l0D00,000.


AN editor says that the only reason
he knows of why his house was not
blown away the other day during a
severe gale was because tloere was a
heavy mortgage upon it,
Year: 1872

A PARIS Journal tells OF man re-
Gently arrived In that city. who Is the
victim OF steam boilor explosion to
such all extent as to make necessary
the following additions to what Is left
Of natures handiwork after the acci-
dent: One wooden arm and two
wooden legs, glass eye. u nose made
from the skin OF the forehead, a silver
jaw, a palate composed Of bit OF
caoutchouc. and stomach consisting
of a sort of truss. He will make the
tour of Europe as an artificial curioS-
lty
Year: 1872

A GOOD story Is told Of clergyman
who forgot his notes on Sunday MORN
ing and It was too late to send for
them, he said to his audience, by way
Of apology, that this morning he would
have to depend upon the. Lord for
what he might say, but in the after
noon he wonld come better prepared.
Year: 1872

The disagreeable and uncertain weather
had bad influence upon the st. Charles
Theatre last evening The audience was
diminutive, but highly appreciative.


Mr.. j. w. Wallack appeared in the stroll
ing and romantic play of Henry Dunbar,
he assuming the character by that name.
The small audience did not seem to affect
his delineations, for he went through the
part lust as if crowded house was before
him-a characteristic of his, by the way.


The play of ''Henry Dunbar is one that
never fails to interest. and is one Of the few
that person can witness the second time.
Mr.. WaIlaeks impersonation is truly won
derful As the ambitious man he is al. that
can be expected; natural and perfect he
holds up the powerful mirror of ma
ture." AS the man to accomplish his
anxious designs, he is a success; and
as the man who has by crime at
tanned the ends sought for, ne is simply
grand His deep bass voice. coupled
with his easy style, never fails to draw forth
the hearty appreciation OF an audience:
and seldom does more enthusiastic au-
dience gather within the portals of the st.
Charles.


Miss Alice Grey deserves special nention
for the manner IN which she rendered the
character of Nargalet Weutrorh. She de-
pcted the loving daughter to a charm. Miss
Grey has few equals on the American
stage as an emotional and finished actress.
and if she maintains her present style and
does not lapse into the usual stage emo
tional business there is open to her the
road to fortune and fame.
Year: 1872

Very little OF interest is going on at the
hall. The adjournment of the Legislature
has abated in great measure the interest
felt in municipal matters and has left them
to take the ordinary course of monOtonous
quietness.
Owing to the comparative absence OF
meat from the markets during two days IN
the week.-Mrs. being Lent-the sales OF
the leases of these institutions for the
month of March show decrease from the
price received for the previous month of
$500.


The agents of the building No. AZ North
Market street have been notified to at once
thoroughly repair that habitation and place
itin a condition in which it will no longer
endanger either the lives Of inmates or
passers-by.


The time for paying city licenses for the
year has expired. Delinquents will now
be charged an additional per centage,


The new bridges (the slides} are ap-
preaching very rapidly a state Of compile
ton.


The Mayor has not yet returned to active
duty.
Year: 1872

The Chicago Tribune of Wednesday says


A convention, unprecedented in our his
tory, is to meet at New Orleans on the tenth
of April. 1t is to be composed wholly OF
colored men, and its announced object is to
promote the union of the negro race. in the
North and South, for commercial and pOllt-
ical purposes. The scheme may be traught
with serious consequences. 1t is Of the
first Importance to the late slaves that our
politics should be cOlorless; that man
should be elected to Office, not because ne is
black or because he is white, but because he
is worthy of trust. If they persist in this
apparent effort to establish an impe'inm IN
imperio, it will indefinitely delay that sec
ond emancipation from demagOgism which
they seem to need almost as much as they
did their first from slavery. We shall have
a Caucasian and an African party. Com
mon sense, and very little of it, ought to
suffice to teach the negroes what the result
of such division would be. 1t is essential
to the prosperity of the country that they
should be educated, and their condition
otherwise improved, as quickly as possible;
but this is not to be done by political COM
bination. We hope that wiser counsels may
prevail, so that the convention will devote
itself to the careful consideration of all
schemes of general improvement, and
ignore politics, as far as may be.
Year: 1872

There will be meeting of the State
Central Committee of the Republican party
at the Union Clsb rooms, on Dryades
street, to-day at twelve o'clock. AS business
Of very great Importance will come before
the committee for consideration, it is ear
nestly desired that there be full meeting.
No member of the committee now in the
city should tail to be prefent
Year: 1872

Quick TME.-Karsky & Co. this week
received goods only five days on the way
from San Francisco to Weaverville.-
Before freight came by railroad it was
generally three weeks on the road, and
sometimes five or six weeks.
Year: 1872

THE LoTTERY.-As announced in the
Journal of last week, the drawing of
McCausland's Lottery took place at the
Theater last Monday evening, in the
presence of a large number Of ticket
holders. Below we give list of the
winning numbers and the prizes awarded
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.
Year: 1872

YOU ARE HEREBY REQUIRED


L to appear 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 matrimony existing between
said Plaintiff and Defendant end tor such
other relief as to this Court may seem
just.


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