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Year: 1873

Governor Booth, in his message, favors
the enactment of no fence law for the
whole State. Now if we are hereafter to
have anything like local self government,
10 decide Tor ourselves as to whether the
important interests of our own county shall
be protected, or whether they shall be, by
legal enactment, subordinated to inferior,
or rather the insignificant interests, We in.
sist on the right of our people to have at
least chance to vote On the fence question,
aud that the will of the majority, as express
ed at the ballot box, shall be respected
The grazing and stock growing interest of
Shasta County is more important, ten times
over, than all the farming interest. And
while all who are engaged in, or are inter
ested in stock growing are strongly in favor Of
the fence law as it now stands, over three
fourths of our rauchers and gardeners are
also of the same disposition. If the ques-
ton was submitted to vote of the people,
the no fence law would not receive hun.
dred votes in the county; in fact nobody
would vote for 1t except few vagabonds
and pimps who lay around the towns most
of the time, and have no particular interest
in anything, except natural disposition to
do all the mischief they can whenever ar
opportunity occurs


Certainly the majority of the Legislature
will regard the wishes of our people and
not force the obnoxious and ruinous no
fence law upon US.
Year: 1873

Amount tor corresponding time 10 lo'l .4.ol


The snow storm Of the 3rd and 4th inst.
was the most severe that has been known
here since the first settlement of the place.
The greatest depth of snow was on the morn
ing of the 4th when it measured l6 inches
The only snow storm that has appIoximated
this in severity for the past "a years occurred
in 1855 and is thus described by the COURIER
of Dec. 29th of that year.


"DEEP SSow.-All this region of country
is now covered with a mantle of deeper snow
than was ever before seen by the. oldest in
habitant When it stopped falling on Thurs
day morning, it was about sixteen inches in
depth. The weather has been so unprece-
IDENTIFY cold since, that it has melted but lit
tie. We understand that it is fifteen inches
deep at Bells House, on Clear Greek, and
that the Valley is covered even fifteen miles
below Tehama. This is indeed an uLpre-
cedented fall Of snow for this region. We
expect that it will occasion an immense loss
of life among the stock, unles, the weather
moderates speedily"
Year: 1873

SHHEP.-The Tehama Independent, 9th
instant, says:


1t is reported that man, name not Civ
en-, living on Cottonwood creek in this
county, during the late storm lost twenty
five hundred head of sheep. out of band
of three thousand. 1t is also reported that
parties in the vicinity of Paskenta and New
vile have lost very heavy in stock. Par
ties in town who seem to be pretty well
posted estimate that half of the sheep in
the county have or will perish from the ef-
fects of the storm.
Year: 1873

THE TIME.-Upder the Congressional
law regulating the election of United States
Senators the first ballot will be taken in
each House separately on the 10th instant,
that day oeing the second Tuesday after
the organization Of the Legislature.
Year: 1873

A Rochester editor went hunting the
other day for the first time in twenty-five
years, and he was lucky enough to bring
down an old farmer by shot in the leg
The distance was sixty-six yards.
Year: 1873

The Atlas correspondent at Sacramento
says: ''During the excitement of the late
political contest, many of them were obliged
to pledge themselves to certain measures,
which they now freely confess are obnox
ious They had to do so in order to secure
their election. 1t is apparent that there
will be some lively lodging before the ses-
sion closes"
Year: 1873

The lower house of the Arkansas iegis-
lature did well yesterday by passing the
railroad aid bill. Its friends encountered
fierce opposition, but after stormy
debate triumphed, and, we hope, viii
continue to triumph until the governors
signature is affixed to an act that will
do more to help the railroads of Arkan-
sas than any measure that has ever been
proposed. As We predicted, the water
organ has no influence, not even where
it uses the associated press in "a way
we despise" and to be seen OF all men in
another column, and its later threats OF
Reputation will only help along meas
ure which looks to increasing the value
of Arkansas railroad bonds by prohibit
ing the issuance of any more.
Year: 1873

Clear profits from the sixty acres, two thou
sand, eight hundred and ninety five dollars and
fifty cents, or within one hundred and ninety
five dollars Of the original cost of the farm.
Now, when land can he made to produce
such enormous profits, why not invest in it2
Year: 1873

AMONG the drowned sailors
Of the Atlantic was a woman,
whose sex was discovered upon
recovery of the body from the
water. She went by the name
OF Bill, End had made three
voyages. She was excessively
fond of tobacco, but was a fs
vorite and free from many OF
the vices of the common sailor.
She was an American, but her
history was buried with her,
for who she was or where she
came from, or why she adopted
mans pursuit, will never be
known.
Year: 1873

Do not let your little ones
grow up, blue and pinched, in
an atmosphere of frost. Do
not repulse them. With your
hearts overaowing with the
real mother love, how can youG
The affection of the child is
spontaneous. The baby lips
are lavish of kisses, and the
soft baby arms twine instinct
lively about the mother who
takes care of and feeds. But
as the child grows older, let
her repulse him ever so little
let him come to understand
that his caresses are u ''bother," 4"
he feels the chill and retires
into himself. But let her cher
ish and return the childish
tenderness, and he will grow
with it, never be too proud to
show it. Then, tender mother,
you shall have your reward
Your young men and women
will keep to the affectlouate
ways OF childhood, and their
caresses, gentle and sweet shall
fall upon your heart like dew,


| love to hear a boy say that
he is never going to be too big
to kiss his mother, and I love
to see a young lady with her
arms about her mothers neck.
1t shows a loving confidence in
which there is security for her.


No girl is so safe as she who
tenderly loves and trusts a
faithful mother.
Year: 1873

TINE wears slippers of LIST,
and his tread is Roiseless. The
days come softly dawning one
after another; they creep IN at
the window; their fresh morn.
ing air is grateful to the lips
that part to it; until, before
we know it, a whole life OF
days has possession Of the cit
adel, and time has taken us for
its own.
Year: 1873

A PAPER speaking of strikes,
says: "You never hear of farm
ers striking" Now It occur to
US that We have known of
such things. We fancy that
if you would let one of them
catch you in his orchard "bor
rowing" apples, or sampling
cider through a straw, we just
hint that you would see hIm
"strike" or, at all events you
might feel him striking.
Year: 1873

A SINGULAR STORY. Recent proceed
ings in one Of the English Courts have
brought to light n singular story, while
exhibiting in nm exceedingly unpleasant
view the practical effects Of certain En-
glish laws. In the year 1925 n lawyers
clerk, young man Of good family and
education, was tried on the charge OF
stealing two watches from his employers
office. The accused had become addicted
to drink, and from the evidence it seemed
doubtful whether he actually intended to
steal the watches, or merely pocketed
them in drunken freak. Under these
circumstances he was fined one shilling
only for the unlawful possession of the
property, after which he went TO Austria
liza. In the year 1851 he disappeared.
and after long time his next OF kin took
out letters of administration under the
supposition that he was dead, whereupon
the Crown Mt once claimed forfeiture on
the ground that he had been convicted OF
felony. There were two sums in dispute,
one of 800, 900, and the other of $1,000.
The Vice Chancellor has declared the
claim of the Crown to the larger sum only
made, so that the representatives of the
fmily are permitted to retain the $1,000
while the Crown appropristes the sum Of
S60, 900 because nearly half century ago.
the late owner of the property was con-
victed of an offence which was then con
sidered sufficiently punished by a fine Of
one shilling.
Year: 1873

AN UNAPPRECIATED JOKE. - There
was an indignant bride in Vermont the
other day. The wedding ceremony was
performed by justice OF the peace, who
concluded it by saying: "And now
send you to the county Jail for thirty
days" The bride, looking daggers at
him, exclaimed: "You ought to be sent
to the insane asylum, you internal old
fool. I've got good mind to put head
on you that'll keep you in bed for over
thirty days" The justice took the dig
nifled rebuke in silence, and didn't offer
to stop the bride and groom when they
left without offering him a fee.
Year: 1873

GooD ADvICE.-Never throw stone
at any one until you have looked to see
whether there is window behind, or
you may have to pay rather dearly for
your revenge. Never leave your hat in
the passage, unless it is a bad one. New
or be executor to will, as it is all liabil-
ity, great trouble and no profit. Never
quarrel with your wife, as you will only
have to make it up, and pay for the re-
Cancellation. Never mention you have
received legacy, or some impertnent
fellow will be asking you to stand din
ner. Never pay to see balloon go up,
as you see it much better by remaining
outside.
Year: 1873

OLD CHURCHIIL.-Ac correspondent oi
the Portland Transcript says: Some
and they are not few, can remember old
Churchill and his peculiar ways. One
day he was riding on horseback, when he
was met by an old woman, who had moi
so many of the worlds goods rs he had
Taking out his wallet he handed her a
quarter of dollar, and rode on.


lie had ridden only short distance,
when he began TO soliloquize thus:


"Now, wouldn't have done better to
have kept that money and bought myself
something?"


Wheeling his horse round, he rode back
to where the old lady was standing, and
said


"Give me that money !"


She handed it to him, wondering what
he meant. Placing It in his wallet, and
at the same time handing her five dol
lar bill, he exclaimed


"There, Self, now l guess you'll wish
you had kept still |"
Year: 1873

A CINCINNATI boy, after gazing long
and meditatively upon painting repre-
sonting the biblical decline of pork
where the drove of devi-possessed swine
were rushing down the hill into the sea-
and being told the story. remarked
IN bet the old man d found some way
to pack them hogs and sell 'em for prime
mess, without wasting ham,"
Year: 1873

AN Oregon woman wears rubber bus
ties, but she is going to stop it. The
other day she slipped and fell down. She
lit on that hustle, and it threw her up in
the air, and she continued coming down
and bouncing up for more than twenty
minutes, and would be bouncing now it
somebody hadn't stopped her.
Year: 1873

A New York female who read that
the Hoosae Tunnel cost nine hundred
dollars per yard, said she would have a
dress pattern off from that piece, If the
old man did not lay up a cent for the
next two years.
Year: 1873

Perfect health is vouchsafed to few. Probably
ninety people out of every hundred who call them
selves healthy have their turns Of languOr. ex


haustion depression of spirits and bodily pain. At
these times q Wineglassful Of HOstetters Stomach
Bitters is as refreshing the shadows Of rock in
a weary land" 1t invigorates and rests the system
and cheers the mind The effect of the Bitters in
cases of nervous debility produced either BY undue
physical exertion. over-study. intense anxiety. OF
any other cause. Is wonderfully reViVing and in
vlgOratinE. In fact. this healthful vegetable TO
stOFatiVe possesses medicinal properties which en-


title il the rank Of article of prime necessity
and it should be kept on hand in every dwelling
and promptly taken as a remedy for all the mlneI
ailments as we'll as for more serious complaints.
Year: 1873

SALT LAKE, Jan. 24.-It is said by the
Mining Journal tonight that the Nor
mons OF Coehe Valley are indignant
and threaten to lynch their Sheriff because
he did not Kill The officers of the United
States Court when the latter attempted to
serve a wit of habeas corpus. 1t is stated
that further interference of the United
States authorities with affairs of Mormon
officials will be met with more effectual re-
sistance.
Year: 1873

Resolved, That we heartily indorse the action of the General Assembly, looking to the enforce ment of the performance of their duties by mo- nopolists as common carriers, and that in addi- ton thereto, we believe that railroads should be required to carry all freights and passengers of- ferred from the country through which they pass and not be permitted to limit the amount of their business and destroy it's natural increase.

 Res0lUed, That the Constitution and laws of the State of Illinois are as binding upon railroad must require obedience to the laws from ali alike, whether the same be deemed constitutional or not by the parties affected, until repealed or de- clared unconstitutional
Year: 1873

THE Philadelphia Age says: "a maiden
speech was once a mere figure of speech
for the first effort of young lawyer or
new Congressman. But now it has become
q reality, and the fair sex perplex courts
and startle audiences with their 'msideI
efforts.'" The South is not blest with thai
sort Of thing yet. The North, with Its
higher civilization, is still ahead Of US.
Year: 1873

In recent case of assault with intent to
kill in InGians, it was shown that the atfray
came about from the father insisting on re-
manning in the room with his daughter and
her beau. The jury cleared the young man,
knowing that nothing could be more vexa-
tious than for fellow to sit up Sunday
night with handsome gin and her old dad
at once.
Year: 1873

TRUNK Yesterday q
colored man entered the store of a clothier
of lower Main street, and purchased a
small trunk at the cost of one dollar and
seventy-fve cents. A short time thereaf-
ter he returned and asked if he could
exchange it for larger one. Being
answered in the affirmative, he concluded
to take one at four dollars, and paid the
merchant tho difference of two dollars
and seventy-liye cents. The purchaser
shouldered the trunk and carried it down
to the Old Market, and there opened it in
the presence Of number Of spectators,
when, 10 and behold he found his trunk
contained three pairs of pants and a nice
black coat. Thinking that some job
had been put up on him. he
requested some Of the bystanders to ac-
company him to the store to see why the
merchant was so generous, but they think
ing fair exchange was no robbery, pre-
vailed upon him TO depart with his bargain
in peace, which he did. A policeman who
heard Of the facts in the case interviewed
the merchant, and at first the donator was
10th to believe it, but upon examination
he found that he was minus trunk which
contained clothing to the tune Of forty dol
lars. We opine said merchant will be a
little more particular in trunk exchanges
in future.
Year: 1873

Two men were killed by an explosion of
fire damp at the Diamond mines near
Wilkesbarre yesterday. The explosion
was caused by one of the men endeavoring
to brush back the damp with an open
lamp, which is an operation equally as
prudent as kindling fire with kerosene.


Paris is excited because the Count de
Paris has gone to Vienna to pay a visit to
the Count de Chambord. Out of this cir
cumstance grow forecastings Of the recon
ciliation of the Bourbon and Orleans heirs
to the throne Of France.


General Sherman's reception in Phila-
delphia last night, was a perfect grafton.
Year: 1873

Genera. Gideon j. Pillow has written a
letter correcting some published state
ments concerning his surrender to the
Union forces in Montgomery, Alabama,
in 1865, and closes it as follows:


Though was without money, and my
gray Confederate uniform was worn and
covered with dust, and dingy from its age
and the service it had seen, when reached
Montgomery, where l was thrown
amid large numbers of federal officers
with brilliant uniform, yet was uniformly
and always recognized with a respect
full military salute by officers and privates
of the federal army, and was pressed with
offers of money and everything else l needed
by the distinguished officers above named,
who had served with me in the Mexican
war yet I accepted no money-noi
one dollar-irom any Of them. But


it is due to them to say that
could not have been treated with greater
courtesy and kindness, if 1 had been ar
officer Of rank in the federal army than
was. AS the last surviving general Officer
of the regular army who served in the
Mexican war, | take pleasure in saying
that the bitterness engendered by the late
civil war was not sufficient to erase the re
spect and friendship formed by the officer.
who fought in that war. And that though
/ committed what the federal soldier!
and northern people consider great errol
and grave crime by my services in the lat


war, yet have never met federal officer


during or since the late civil war, who ha'
| failed to treat me with courtesy and respect
and duly to appreciate my services to tn
government in the Mexican war. Among


these, / am happy to mention the marked


respect and kindness have received from
the great soldier, the present distinguished


President of the nation, since he has beel


in his present exalted position, for whom


was my pleasure to give my humble vot


against his competitor for the position h
| now occupies"
Year: 1873

PERsoNAL.-We had the pleasure of a
call to-day from Colonel Lewis Fl. Garnett,
of Essex county. lie is a liberal Conser-
vatiye in politics, fair minded and just deal
ing. 1t would perhaps be better for the
state and the party he represents, if all
were of his manner of thinking and acting
Colonel Garnett is delegate to the Conser-
gubernatorial convention which meets
in this city tomorrow.


Governor Walker and lady returned to
the city this morning from Cape May.
Year: 1873

WHOSE Duty is IT?-Therc is fire
plug at the corner of Fifth and Marshall
streets that has been leaking for weeks, and
which has really become nuisance in con-
sequence of the waters flowing Just free
enough to partially fill the gutter, where it
remains in stagnant state. One of the
merchants in front of whose store this
nuisance exists has repeatedly notified the
police; they have reported to the board of
health, and the board of health have re-
ported it to the city engineer, and yet
success has not yet perched upon their
banner. There is but one official left to
our knowledge who is likely to have any,
thing to do with it, and as dernier resort
we respectfully submit its claims to his
consideration, fervently trusting that he
may see to its Abatement. e., superinten-
dent of the water works.
Year: 1873

WHERE ARE THE POLICE PA re-
cumbent intoxicated person encumbered
the sidewalk at Thirtieth and Marshall
streets all Of last night. Ordinary foot
passengers walked around him, and The
police did not show themselves.
Year: 1873

SENT ON.--The continued case of Mike
Sullivan, charged with feloniously cutting
and wounding VIM. Slater with knife,
was tried before Justice White this morn
ing, and the accused sent on to the grand
Jury of the hastings court for Indictment.
Year: 1873

THE DEMOCRATIC GUBERNAToRIAL
NOMINATING CONvENTIoN.-Mos of
the delegates to the convention, which con-
venes in the Theatre at noon tomorrow,
have already put in an appearance here and
quartered at the various hotels. Those
not yet arrived will come by to-night's
trains, or be on hand by the same mode of
conveyance tomorrow morning in time
to be sin at the DEATH" The Kemper
men speak with the consciousness of as
sured success the Withers men are hope.
full, yet doubling. We should judge that
many of the gentlemen from the rural dis
trcts were not used to the sort of Bum
gardner kept in the bar-rooms of this city,
as number since they lit down on Rich
mond have acquired an unnatural thick
ness Of speech, which denotes that they
have been enthused by the spirit of the
occasion. Talk about the prospective
nominees is ''all the rage" and "who are
to be nominated" is the question that each
OF the little groups of men discuss so
earnestly in the corners and byways of the
hotels. Ii is quietly whispered that eau
Gus will be held tonight at the Exchange
hotel to determine how matters shall be
managed in the convention. They propose
to nominate Kemper, and it is thought by
the knowing ones that there will be no 9th
er nomination seriously made. They say
the fight will be made over the nominations
for the lieutenant-governor and attorney
general. We believe, however, that these
gentlemen are too sangune and under-rate
the strength and determination Of the 9th
er aspirants TO the chief office.
Year: 1873

A TRUE RAT SToRY.-Yesterday
morning in q lot in rear Of a house on
Franklin between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, large-siaed rat seized a
young chicken. and was in the act of get
ting to hole with it, when the hen +" went
for him. A fight Of several minutes
ensued, when Mr.. Rat was corpse, while
the hen stood over him triumphantly
cackling.
Year: 1873

ulStS VI mOIuiux. DcTuducLCe, WHO was SLlll In u
pious ecstasy continued to regard the celestial
being, invisible to every eye but hers, and after
while her companions spoke to her again.


"G0 to her, since she beckons to you. Ask who she
is and why she comes. Ask IL she is soul In pur.
gatory who implores our prayers, and request her
to write down her wishes that we may fulfil them -
Nine. Millet and Mlle Peyret had brought pen.
ink and paper, which they gave to Bernadette,
who then advanced towards the apparition. AS
she moved forward step by step the apparition
began to retire into the interior of the grotto and
the child followed It.


my lady" said little Bernadette, elf you have
AMI thing to communicate will you please to have
the goodness to state in writing who you are and
what you wantSn


WHAT THE VIRGIN MARY SAID.


The Divine Virgin smiled at this simple question.
Her lips then parted and she said -


I'll need not write down what have to tell you,
Do me the favor to come hither every day for f(.
teen days"


IL promise to do So" replied Bernadette. The
Virgin smiled again at this answer and repued:-


"And as for me | promise to make you happy
not by any means mon point in this world but in
the other"


Mme Millet and Mile. Peyret, when informed
OF these particulars, asked whether they might
also return every day to the grotto with
Bernadette, and the Virgin told Bernadette that
they might do So Upon this occasion, as before
Bernadette remarked that when the 'lady,r as
she still called the appartion, was about to vanish
the light around her remained for a brief space
after she was gone; and that when the vision was
about to appear before her. nrst the light made
itself visible and then the lady,


PUBLIC OPINION AT LOURDgs.


The next day crowd OF 100 persons followed
Bernadctte to the grotto, and the day afterwards
1t had increased to more than five hundred. No
one present on these occasions could see anything
more than little child praying IN an ecstasy under
the shadow OF a cavern in rude rock. Nothing,
absolutely nothing, and the sco1ers began to
laugh at them The doctors said that Bernadette
was merely suffering from cstaepsy--a common
and well understood disease. The editor OF a radi-
cal paper printed that she was thief The people
In the wine shops, whose ideas were farthest ad-
vanced, said she wanted to be thief and get
money By tricks, beneath discussion by an honsst
Year: 1873

Last Saturday night man struck another over tbc head with pistol, two men had rough and stumble dgh, on the street, in which one got part of his under lip cut of and a mausard roof over his right eve, and the performance wound np by n man beating q woman frightiuy, (with bottle i, Js said SO that she was obliged to call medical aid. and for day two lay in very critical con dition. No complaints were made and nobody arrested This calls for some action on the part or the town authorities. Such musSes area disgrace tothe village.