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Year: 1870

\ MESSAGE To THE LADIES. il not
necessary to coat the faded fbers with
filth, or TO stain the skin. in order to
renew in your blanching ringlets the
lustrous hue Of their prime. PHA-
Ions VITALIA, OR SALVATION
FOR THE HAIR, as clear and trans
parent a fluid as that which sparkles in
your cologne bottles, effects the change
more satisfactorily than any other pre-
marathon in the world
Year: 1870

The Baltimore Gazette says: News
papers are no vehicles for personal mar
ratives. Their reading columns should
not be open to the publication of de-
tails which are of purely private inter.
est. 1t is not the end of newspaper
to abuse everything and everybody, and
it is not worth while always even to
criticise Justly where it can have no in
hnencc to correct
Year: 1870

The shrewdness of sons Chinamen is something extraordinary, to say the least oft. The San Francisco Chronicle tells of E case wherein two of them, Ah Yin and Ab Gee, recently committed suicide by hanging. So avoid being sent to San Quentin.
Year: 1870

A large stock of Groceries-BUTTER HONEY, CHEESE and DRIED FRUIT whichw offer for sale; wholesale aud retail We adhere to a cash system and sell our good remarkably low for cash. nI2
Year: 1870

For interest in lieu of investment two hum dred thousand dollars, at five per csntum per an nun, per second article treaty of January four teen, eighteen hundred and forty six, ten thou sand dollars.
Year: 1870

EXTRAORDINARY FIsHING-BLAsTISG FOR TROUT.
A few days since copied an item from the Car.
son Appeal in regard to killing fish with giant pow
der Yesterday We had conversation with gen
tleman who had some experience at this kind OF
fishing.


He says that while stopping at the Warm Springs,
near Geneva, last week, he several times went out
with parties of gentlemen to blast trout of the
Carson. The way they practice this new mode of


fishing is follows: They take a cartridge of giant
powder, weighing about aquarter Of pound, insert
into 1t piece of fuse property capped about six
inches in length lighting the fuse the carridg is
thrown into any deep hole supposed TO contsin
trout other fish,


water smoke and bubbles of gas are seen to rise to
the surface then in few seconds comes the explo-
son-a dull. heavy report The surface of the water
is to bulge up, and the ground can be felt to
shake for fifteen or twenty feet back from the water


Immediately after the explosion, all the fish that
happened to be withina circle Of twenty five or thir
~ feet Of the spot where the cartridge FELL to
the surface either killed outright badly stun
ned that it is some minutes before they recover.


Our informant says that with two cartridges be
saw fifty pounds of fish killed, counting front,
whiefish and chubs. In places after a blast the
whole surface of the water would be covered with
minnows, from an inch TO three or four inches in
length.


At Elko they practicing the same style of fish
ing only that out there they tie the cartridge to the
end of long pole and thrust 1t into the water hold
ing it till the explosion occurs This is the most
destructive mode OF fishing we have ever heard Of
1t is regular wholesale slaughter Of great and small
good and bad


Should the practice gain ground, it will be
sary for the Legislature to put stop to 1t by act
making it criminal offense TO fsl with giant pow
der. Parties have already been trying this blasting
process in Lake Tahoe, where, by using large cart


ridge, they expect to bring up hundreds Of trout at
single shot Virginia CITY tSesada) EHfe'prfss.
Year: 1870

Caroline Buckley, age four years, the daugh-
ter Of George and Mary Buckley, was killed in Brooklyn
yesterday under the following circumstances; The
family had just moved into the upper part OF house no
16 Nyrtleaye and the child allowed TO play with
articles that were in the drawers OF bureau In one OF
the drawers a pistol, which the child took up and
snapped the when the weapon exploded and tho
but entered forehead the right eye and pene
trated the BRAIN causing instant death.
Year: 1870

feeling of awe from those around her, stood
brcathless, her face turned aside, and her
tiny fingers resting on the line of life or death.


AT last, gathering courage. the widow bent
her eyes upcu the page and read. 1t was
from the New Testament:


Love your enemies"


Oh! Book of terrible majesty and childlike
love of subIimity that crushes the Heart with
rapture, it never shone more strongly than
there iu that lonely hut of wissahicon, when
it saw the murderer's heart


Now, look how wonderful are the ways of
Heaven, that very night, as the widow sat by
her freside-sat there with crushed heart
and hot eyelids, thinking of her husband, who
now lay on tho drenched soil of Paoli, there
vas tap at the door. She opened it, and
that husband, living, though covered with
wounds was in her arms.


He had fallen at Paoli but not in death.
He was alive and his wife painting on his bo.
som.


That night there was prayer and thanks,
giving in the wood>cmbowercd cottage on tho
Wissahicon.
Year: 1870

In 1862 the Emperor Napoleon or
dered an examination to be made as
to the effect Of tobacco on students.
1t was found that those who did
not use tobacco were stronger, better
scholars and had q higher neral re-
cord than those who used 10. The
result was that an edict was Issued
forbidding Its use In thei rational i'm
stitutiols. Eminent physicians In
this country are OF opinion that those
much addicted to the use Of tobacco,
as well us those who are engaged In
the manufacture Of cigars and snuff,
never recover easily from injuries or
iflueseee. H Al
Year: 1870

THAT NEW SAFE AoAIS. I'VE un-
derstand from friend at Waterloo,
that there Is big difference between
the Black Hawk county safe. and
the one Grundy county has just
bought. The latter fs burglar proof,
and the other Is not, and this makes
quite difference in the price. We
accept the explanation OF our friend,
but we still think there is a mighty
shave somewhere In this safe bust
Year: 1870

Sr. CHARLES HorEL-We wish to di
rect our citizens and travellers generally
to the advertisement in the Press of the


above old Hotel at Fort Smith. Captain
j. w. MOORE, an old and experienced
river clerk, has leased it for number Of
wears and having completely renovated
the House will aim to keep a well regu-
hated first class Hotel. We predict the
Captain will prove as popular landlord
las he was universally acknowledged to
Ibe an efficient steamboatman.
Year: 1870




Although the Senate substitute for the
House Georgia bill was adopted at mid
night, the final vote OH it was not taken
till two o'clock this morning. Two hours
were consumed by the enemies of the
bill, in fierce, persistent, parliamentary
opposition, led, principally, by Drake.
There were nearly hundred members Of
the House on the Senate floor during the
session, including Butler on one hand,
and Bingham on the other, while Gov.
Bullock and his friends were also present
in force lobbying against the Bingham
amendment The scene, altogether, was
the most exciting of the session, while
result indicated that the Radical pro-
gramme for reinaugurating military con-
troll of the Southern States has assumed
positive shape As the bill passed, it re-
mands Georgia into a provisional gov
ernment, makes a new military district,
and places it under the control of Gen.
Terry. In word, it is the commence
ment of military reconstruction over
again. Another Legislature is to be elect
ed and new set of Senators are to be
chosen next November, after which the
State is to again apply for admission.
While Bullock and company rejoice at the
defeat of the Bingham amendment, they
do not find themselves any better off, as
the term of the Legislature is even more
restricted under the new bill, and the
State is virtually under the new bill, and
the State is virtually taken from their
control. To their complaints of the new
programme, Radical Senators answer
that they have been here bowling alleged
outrages in that State, and now they turn
round and denounce the bill to suppress
these outrages by military force. The
bill reached the Houseto day, and Butler
had it referred to the reconstruction com
mittee. 1t looks very much as if the two
Houses would come to dead lock. The
Georgia carpet baggers are demoralized.
Year: 1870

re- CHARLEY RIBLING has just receiv-
ell new and complete stock of Boot
and Shoe material. Now is the time to
have your measures taken for Summer
wear For good fit and nice Boot go
to Charles.
Year: 1870

The House committee on public lands
to day heard Congressman Roots, of Ar
kansas, in favor Of the resolution for ex
tending the time for the completion of
the first twenty miles Of the Cairo and
Fulton Railroad and unanimously agreed
to report it to the House with the recon-
that it pass.
Year: 1870

re- We understand that hereafter, the


St Louis Mail will go out and come in
seven times week. Before it was but
six. The increased travel over this route
calls for an extra day. All interested
will take notice that a stage will go out
on 7aesidy and come in on Thursday.
Year: 1870

withered on exposure to the open air. Then
h was by men decided that woman's true
sphere and crownine glory lay in fulfilling
the duties Of wife, companion and mother,
when at the same time the ignorance impos.
ed on her BY custom, opinion and convention
ality prevented her from realizing true COM
panionship to man and from teaching her
children half that they should know. Men
then slighted the wife and on the sly, ran by
scores after some keen, clever, intelligent ex-
periened woman, ostracised Of course by dull
er respectahility, but up to snuff and oil their
little games. don's wish to marry at 90
and at 30, be Is years behind my husband
in experience and knowledge. ] don't care
then to Be the 'sold thing" while his eye is
rowing over the successive crops of younger
beauties, as they come forward. Mere beau
ty has but trarsient bold over any man.
n. as to intellect, wisdom, wit, world knowl-
edge. and in everything thst pertains to life.
nv end OF the log is not kept up, sink into
an appeudsge only endured becarse the man
through fear Of puIlic opinion is affsid 70 get
rid of me. I do not wish either like scme
women to be fooled into believing my possi'
BILE future husband perfect as to knowledge,
wisdom aud cspability, or that should tic
my intellectual apron strings to his and ia
oil matters Of opinion become his echo. There
are many men of many minds. Association
is the best of oil teachers. That the sexes
are attracted toward each other is Gods Law,
that thought and idea flow more naturally
from man to woman and from woman to man,
than from man to man or woman TO woman,
whenever they talk outside Of the masks they
so constantly hold up before each other. If in
consequences Of this course. my reputation
must suffer, let it suffer. Better the slurs Of
Mrs. Grundy of paltry gossipdom than
stunted stew-pan, intellect, whose greatest
orbit is sewing circle"


Such girl as this will never turn out an
Old Maid who will jump sideways stiff leg
ged dozen feet or more whenever she smells
q man.
Year: 1870

Practical THEoLoGY.-As man at present
conducts the world lie enjoys not half he
needs, and his needs are quite different from
his aoauts. There is water enough in crea.
tion to give every man, woman and child a
bath daily, in any manner they may wish and
of any degree of temperature. In our heat
ed Summer climate, there should be in every
town and village system of Public Baths,
where by the payment of a small sum every
individual might be secured room by him
or herself, soap, towels, brushes, end hot and
cold water. Perfect cleanliness is now either
troublesome or an expensive Injury. 1t is
in reality necessity as well as a luxury to
which men and women viewed as beings
placed on earth to enjoy all they can ration
ally are rightfully entitled. But privileges
like these are reserved for coming and more
reasonable generations. Because our fore.
fathers went comparatively dirty to their
graves, we think we may as well do so. A
wash once week will keep person from
smelling extravagantly. Hence, it is sufi
cient. If we feel lsnguid or lazy or cross OF
out of sorts generally from the neglect o.
this or any other course, which if perse7eret
in would in time make us more vigorous ant
lively, make life more enjoyable and les
plentiful in weary hours we stir up tn
human engine within us to more activity, b,
it mental or physical, by orowding the fur
naces with artificial fuel, whisky and tobsc
co.
Year: 1870

The mountains Eastward are full to the
summit of sheep and cattle. People from
the Plains, away to the Southwark as Far as
Visalia and beyond, know more of this por-
ton of our County than do most of Us resi-
dent here for years. Yet the worldis not
much wiser for their knowledge. A 'sheep
man" might find the ruins of some aute-dilu-
Wan city and he might tell of it; but he'd
break one of his vows if he did.
Year: 1870

If you want anything done which
amounts to anything, recollect it can't be
done until after the Fourth of July. People
who are going anywhere, or who intend any
sort os reformation won't bulge an inch now
until after the Fourth. No marriages will be
consummated until after the Fourth. People
who intend being born must put it off until
after the Fourth.
Year: 1870

BR.proRDs SrEaM SAW MiLL.-Stepped
the other morning into Bradford's saw-mill
snms Ia miles above Sonora. A great log
breast high was being dumped from truck
!: was rolled into the mill it lay there pas
sive victim; q captured and condemned forest
monarch suddenly man threw around it
great rope with q hook at the end another
man touched lever; the rope tightened and
tha great mass Of wood was hustled and drag
ged on to sliding truck before it ceased
trembling two great iron hooks were clamped
on II fixing il securely on the slide; then
man touched another lever and the slide,
log and all commenced gliding toward two
revolving saws, whose teeth were simply
youges as long as ones hand it came nearer
and nearer. The saws flashed and whirled and
rpun within hairs breadth of the butt.
They nickcd it. But there was no pause In
fhe motion. The coarsest grained saw-dust
few through the mill The saws steadily
crept through the wood. A lengthening
slit appeared. The outer slab of board and
pine bark fell off. The truck few back. to
its first position. A man seized the slab.
lie showed il on rollers until four feet of one
end lay over hole in the floor. Up out of
that bcle sprung a little circular saw and
z-zz-t four feet OF the slab was off and gone
below through q sliding trough for firing.
Another shove. Z-z-z-t four feet more in
snap Of ones finger. So that went. Mean
time the log bad been coming again toward
the saws. This time they shaved off board
with two rough bark edges. That by two men
was slung on another truck, Awhizzing plate
ofmetal came out Of crack and with hoerse
hum quickly cut of the rough edges and there
was perfect board. The log grew quickly
lo.a. They slung it over this side and that,
shaved of slice here and slice there, until
it became perfect white pine cube. This
they pared into little cubes and these into
slices. In ten minutes, that log had ceased
to exist. 1t was in pieces, one of which may
in a months time help floor house at Sugar
Pine, while its mate may answer similar
purpose at Stockton. So they pare down
logs day after day.


There is scarce an inch Of safe or perma-
neut standing room at Bradford's Mill for q
spectator. For in one place logs just landed
come rclling down upon you. In another
sliding trucks will batter at, and run over
you. II you sit down on q smooth and invit-
ing bench, little whiz saws will rush out Of
cracks and instantly saw you into boards,
joists, siding and porter house steaks. If you
get in auybody's way they will sling those
hooks and clamps around you, roll you on the
truck, rush you under that saw, while the
boss. casting his eye momentarily over you
makes tightening like calculation as to how
you will cut up to best advantage, calls out
eighteen, thirty-two y! and in a minute or
two your friends have the satisfaction of
knowing that you were sawed up scentifcal-
ly and with less waste than at any other
mill in the mountains.


And they cut $4,000 feet of lumber there
last week and would have made it 100000
but for setting the mill on FIRE.
Year: 1870

SEE HERE The ladies of the Methodist
Church, in this town will on the Fourth of
July open q sort of patriotic restaurant in
Fridenberg's old store for the sale. of ice
cream, cake, pies and other loyal luxuries.
The object is a praiseworthy one and should
receive the support of all who cannotdispanse
with the gospel and as many as possible of
those who can
Year: 1870

By and by, that class of women now suffer-
ing and for time yet to suffer under the


pains and penalties of condition known as
Old Maidism will become extinct The sim
gle women will in society become indepen-
dent powers. A girl on arriving of age to
think and act for herself, will say to her par
ents :. Look here 81 am going to set up
for myself I am able to maintain myself at
such or snch q pursuit. shall hire rooms
or snug little house. In it, shall be sole
mistress. 1 shall 60 and come when and
where and how I please. l shall receive
whom please. am, it is true your daugh-
ter. Nevertheless, am not you either faith
er or mother. am an individual having my


own life to live. my own tastes, desires and
inclinations. I msy not see such easy times
as by remaining under the home roof. l
may err and suffer therefrom. But do not
now wish that the road of life should for me


be made so smooth, and that should be SO
carefully guarded until circumstance or ne
cessity all at once pushes me into world


which have not learned to buffet. For your
counsel, and above oil your sympathy, shall
ever be most thankful. shall endeavor to
be q womanly woman. shall not try to ape
man. shall not be a wanton. This ID
1890 and society now is much more lenient
than in 1870 to women, who only ask equal
eouutenance with men from Mr.. and Mrs
Grundy in "trying on the world" Then fe
| male purity was often SO hot-hcused that il
Year: 1870

/ have been introduced providing for con-
traction Ingersolls bill, providing for
issuing "A 900. 900 more of treasury notes,
Was sent to a com mmittce which will proba
bly, strangle it. but no one has been hxr
enough to propose a reduction of the vol
ume Of currency.


Such . proposal would probably have
been made, and have taken the form of a
law, if the depressed condition of business
in the country had not greatly diminished
the treasury receipts. The cry comes up
to congress from all sides for reduction Of
taxation, and the large surplus revenue OF
the past year, and the estimates of Com
missioner Wells and Secretary Boutwell,,
are pointed to as proof that taxation may
safely De greatly reduced. 1t is now shown
that our present tariff and revenue laws
will not yield nearly as much the coming
year as they did the last, unless business
can be revived. 1t is the policy of the
ruling party to tax heavily and expend
literally. Its corruption and extravaganza
draw to 1t influential partisans and enable
1t to retain power. 1t will not consent to
any material reduction of taxation, and is,
therefore, compelled to cast about for some
policy which will enable tax x-payers to meet
the drafts made on them.


So much has been said about the evils of
a 'bloated currency, aud SO confident has
been the assumption that our currency is in
that condition, and has been for some half
doxen years or more, that il is a matter for
surprise that congress should favorably con
sIder any proposition TO increase the
"boat. The fact that Sumner and Sler
man propose to place the new banks on
specie paying basis does not invalda,e or
weaken their admission that the west and
south greatly need more currency. Tie
specie paying part Of this programme
looks well on paper. but very few men of
common sense believe it can be carried ont.


If western members of congress would do
their duty, they would insist upon fur
ther issue of treasury notes. There will be
no banking bill carried through congress
which will supply the western states with
the currency they need. There will be
none carried through congress which will
grant to Few banks terms as favorable as
those under which existing banks are cper>
ating. Were Sherman's bill law to day.
men would not 20 into banking under it.
lur he eVils Arising ir6mW W thes hs'd drhclency 10
currency is to issue treasury notes.
Year: 1870

nThe resolution introduced into the
constitutional convention to abolish the
entire grand jury system is probably little
too broad and sweeping to command sup
port: but the scope and privileges of the
grand juries, under the present customs
aud legislations. might be modified to good
purpose. The grand jury has come to be,
without doubt, the most arbitrary and irres-
ponsibe body under the laws. 1t need
hesitate at nothing; in fact, it does not
hesitate, but often exercises a power that
is far from Discretionary expresses opin-
ions for which any other man or body of
me.i could be made to suffer in law; damns
character with the perfect recklessness
which is always inseparabe from irrespon-
sibility in numbers; and has, in the days
of its existence, done thousands of things
that should never have been done. There
ara certain cases. the justice of Indicating
which could be decided much more fairly
BY judge who is familiar with Law, aad
has an individual and professional reputa-
ton at stake, than by two dozen men who
are called together for few days, and dis.
perse, never to think again Of what they
have done.
Year: 1870

1t wOald be wisdom on the part Of the
Southern people to remember that they
are living for the future and not the past
To sit with folded arms amidst the wrecks
of future prosperity, may be a profitable
and enjoyable employment, but we must
doubt that any good will result therefrom.
Idle dreaming should give way to stern
reality, and every man should to the OK
tent of his ability grapple with the pres
ent, and mould by it the time which is
yet to come. "0ld things have passed
away, behold all things have become new"
We have buried our dead out Of sight, and
planted immOrteIles above their resting
places. We have mourned the downfall
of our hOpes-let us be comforted. The
difficulties and dangers which beset our
paths can be averted, or conquered By
energy and resolution.
Year: 1870

Let energy be the presiding genius of the
hour. The resources Of our State must
be more extensively and moro thoroughly
developed. Our cities and towns must
become noisy with tho hum Of machinery,
and our fields must blossom as the ross.
We must live for the future and not for
the past, and in the omipg cyearu, content
will be familiar guest in every heart
and plenty will walk smiling about our
doors. Then we can claim with that
sweet poet of the South, whose voice,
though mute in death, still speaks to Us
from the portals of the tomb,


"Peace, God otpsses in AT our homes,


And peace in al our hearts"
Year: 1870

The negro is now free man. He is .
citizen. He is voter. No master can
enslave him. No State can OppreSs him.
II is the interest of all parties and of ev.
cry society to treat him civilly aud fairly,
Legal arti6ce can go no further The law
can do no more. Now, suppose we let
SambO slide aud try our hand on thopOOr
white slaves who have been neglected SO
long. Sambo needs rest and the country
needs rest, and the poor white slaves want
breath Of freedom. If Congress does
not look to it, we should get a Congress
that will.
Year: 1870

They do things on the run, out West.
When the two trains were smashed by a
collision on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
The other day, one of the first to crawl out
from the wreck was man, holding in his
hand tolegraphic dispatch to lawyer in
st. Louis, telling him to bring suit against
the road for ten thousand dollars damages.