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Year: 1873

THE intellect has only one failing,
which, to be sure, is a very considerable
one it has no conscience. Napoleon is
the readiest instance of this. If his heart
had borne any proportion to his brain, he
had been one Of the greatest men in all
history.
Year: 1873

A YOUNG lady having read about man
having invented stove which consumes
its own smoke, hopes he will devise a
method whereby tobacco-smOkers can be
run on the same economical principle.
Year: 1873

his hero and heroine with their bridal
outfit and attended TO that little matter
OF the marriage certificate, he usually
turns OF the gas, puts up his shutters,
and saunters off with his hands in his
pockets, as if the days business were
over. But we, who are honest dealers in
real life and disdain to give short weight,
know better. The business is by no
means over; it is just begun. 1t is not
Christian throwing off his pack for good
and all, but Christian taken up load
heavier and more difficult than any he
has carried"
Year: 1873

lHE pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
vention has done service to mankind
by defining new crime, to wit, "bor-
ing" Henceforth we have the satisfac-
ton to know that there will probably be
one State in the Union, at least, where
the bore will be looked upon as q
criminal The following is the PROPOSE
ton which has been approved in Com
mittee of the Whole in Convention
THE practice of boring shall be defined
and punished by law, and shall include
any corrupt solicitation of members of
the General Assembly, or of public offic-
ers of the State, or of any municipal di-
vision thereof, and any occupation or
practice as common borer for or against
the passage or approval of laws" The
punishment for the offense shall be by
fine and imprisonment.
Year: 1873

It's DEPTH. The average depth of the
sea is two miles. Occasionally, in certain
parts, it is four miles, and sometimes
only one mile.


I'm not getting married as much as l
was" is the latest way of saying no to an
impassioned sutton
Year: 1873

A young man entered the bar-room
of village tavern, and called for a
drink. No. said the landlord you
have had too much already. You have
had deliriums treinens once, and | can
not sell you any more. He stepped
aside to make room for a couple of
young men who had just entered, and
the landlord waited upon them very
politely. The other had stood by 81
lent and sullen, and when they had
finished he walked up to the landlord,
and thus addressed him: Six years
ago, at their age, stood where those
young men now are. | was man
with fair prospects. Now, at the age
of twenty-eight, L am a wreck, body
and mind. You led me to drink. In
this room | formed the habit that has
been my ruin. Now sell me a few
glasses more, and your work will be
done | will soon be out of the way !;
there is no hope for me. But they can
be saved they may be men again.
Don't sell tito them. Sell it to me,
and let me die, and then the world
will be rid of me; but for heavens s
sake sell no more to themp The
landlord listened, pale and trembling.
Setting down his decanter, he exclaim-
ed, God helping me, that is the last
drop | ever will sell to any onep And
he kept his word.
Year: 1873

"How flushed; how weak he Isl
What is the matter with him


Only tight


Tight


"Only tight"-man's best and great
est gift, his intellect, degraded; the
only power that raises from brute ere
alton trodden down under the form of
a debasing appetite.


''Only tight" gentle sisterwhose
strongest love through life has been
given to her handsome, talented broth
er, shrinks with contempt from his en-
brace and brushes away the hot. i'm
pure kiss he prints upon her cheek.


Only Highland his young bride
stops in the glad dance she is making
to meet him, and checks the welcome
on her lips to gaze in terror on the
flushed face of him who was the god
of her idolatry.


Only tight'-as the fathers face
grows dark and sad, as with bitter
sigh he stoops over the sleeping form
of his first born.


He has brought sorrow to all these
affectionate hearts he has opened the
door to a fatal indulgence he has
brought himself down to level with
brutes; he has tasted, exciting the ap-
petite to crave the poisonous draught
again he has fallen from high aud no.
bic manhood to babbling and heavy
stupor; brought grief to his mother,
distrust to his sister, almost despair to
his bride, and bowed his fathers head
with sorrow, but blame him not, he is
'only tight"
Year: 1873

SINGULAR CASE OF DEPRAvITY
A letter from Greenville, Tenn, says
the Pantograph, relates the following.
THE cholera at Greenville has devel-
oped a few cases of monstrous deprav-
ity, one of which l will relate without
mentioning names. An old gentleman,
probably seventy years of age, who
lived mile or two in the country and
noted for his recklessness and utter de-
fiance of the laws of God, came into
town one day and passing down the
street cried out that he intended to
spread cholera through the town. He
then went to an undertaken and wanted
to know if he could make coffin and
what he would charge. The reply was,
that if he wanted it before his death,
he would charge him twenty-five dol
lars, but if after, he would charge only
fourteen dollars. He told him to pro-
ceed with the matter, but to be sure to
make it out of two inch plank and
leave it open at both ends, so that It
the devil comes in at one end he could
escape at the otherl That night he
was stricken down with the cholera,
and by next morning was a corpse.
Year: 1873

In the spring of 1925, Mr.. Webster
was much concerned in the discussion
then going on in the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington upon the
tariff. One morning he rose very early
earlier even than was his custom-to
prepare himself to speak upon it.
From long before daylight till the
hour when the House met, he was
busy with his brief. When he was far
advanced in speaking, a note was
brought to him from the Supreme
Court, informing him that the great
case of Gibbons VS.. Ogden " would
be called on for argument the next
morning. He was astounded at the
intelligence, for he had supposed that
after the tariff question should have
been disposed of, he still would have
ten days to prepare himself for this
formidable conflict, in which the
constitutionality of the laws of
New York, granting steam
boat monopoly of its tide-waters, should
be decided.


He brought his speech on the tariff
to conclusion as speedily as he could,
and hurried to make such preparations
for the great law argument as the
shortest notice would permit. He had
then taken no food since his mornings
breakfast; but instead of dining he
took moderate dose of medicine and
went to bed and to sleep. At 10P. NJ.
he awoke, called for bowl of tea and,
withoutothe refreshment, went imme-
diately to work. To use his own phrase,
" the tapes had not been off the papers
for more than "a year" He worked all
night, and, as he has told me more
than once, he thought he never on any
occasion had so completely free use of
all his faculties. He hardly felt he
had bodily organs, so entirely had his
fasting and the medicine done their
work. At9A. NJ, after eleven hours
of continuous intellectual effort, his
brief was completed.


He sent for the barber and was
shaved, took very light breakfast of
tea and crakers; he looked over his
papers to see that they they were all
in order, and tied them up-he read
the morning journals, to amuse and
change his thoughts, and then he went
into court and made that grand argu-
ment which, as Judge Wayne said
above twenty years afterward, releas-
ed every creek and river, every lake
and harbor in our country from the in
reference of monopolies." Whatever
he may have thought of his powers on
the preceding night, the court and
the bar acknowledged their whole force
that day. And yet at the end of FIVE
hours, when he ceased speaking, he
could hardly be said to have taken
what would amount to half the re-
freshment of a common meal for
above two and thirty hours, and, out of
the thirty-six hours Immediately pre-
ceding, he had for thirty-one been in a
state of very high intellectual excite
ment and activity-George TcknOr.
Year: 1873

up which the form of an Indian war
rior was struggling.


My child, my childr' was all the
woman said, and then Rufus. Bransou
saw that the bundle borne in the In
dian's arms was the form of their only
child, little Maggie.


Firm of heart, and with nerves as
steady as the rocks around, the father
for a moment actually quailed and
covered under what his quick sense
told him was the deadly peril of the
little one.


But he was quick to recover.


The Indian was drawing away; step
by step he was increasing the distance,
and as he occasionally glanced back
ward, the parents saw in his hideously
painted countenance, the fell purpose
that actuated the abduction.


God aid mel" Branson muttered
as he raised his rife, glanced through
the sights, and touched the trigger.


The Indian started violently at the
shot.


He was hit, but not badly, and with
ayell of devlish triumph, he passed
upward.


Too low by couple of inches, -
said low, calm voice, at the settlers
elbow.


Branson started as though he him
self had been shot.


Where has that man come from?o
Who is he? Neither had seen him
approach.


But there was no time for explana-
ton. The stranger, a man rather be-
low than above the ordinary height,
whose fine, athletic form, was fully
displayed by his closely-ftting buck
skin garments, stepped forward few
PAGES, and grimly planting his left foot
in advance, threw up an unusually
long rife as though preparing to fire.


For Gods sake, stranger, be careful
of my childr' criend Branson, while
the agonized mother muttered an in
audible prayer.


Its our only chance. / know that
Indian, was the quick reply, and the
sharp click of the hammer as it was
drawn back, told that the critical mo-
ment had come.


By this time the Indian had nearly
reached the summit of the steep
That he was wounded now became evi-
dent, as upon q broad ledge of rock he
rested a moment.


The opportunity was seized by the
unknown.


Although the savage had taken the
precaution to hold the child up in
front of himself as shield, covering
nearly the whole of his brawny chest,
but leaving his head uncovered, the
stranger did not hesitate in making
the shot. For one second, as it gained
its position, the rife wavered, and
then instantly became as immovabfe
as though held with wise. With
clasped hands and straining eyes the
parents watched that statue-like form
upon whose skill so much depended.


Suddenly a sharp report rang out,
the white smoke drifted away, and as
the vision became clear, they saw the
savage loose his hold upon the child,
reel wildly for an instant, and then
pitch forward upon the rocks. 1t may
be imagined that the father was not
long in reaching the place where the
child lay, and in few moments more
the little one was in its mothers arms.


Tell US who you are, that We may
know what name to mingle with our
prayers, " said the mother, as the stran-
ger prepared to depart.


My name is Daniel Boone" he said
and was gone.
Year: 1873

THIS laconic but sensible German
ought to be sent out to lecture among
the people on temperance: shall
tell You how it vas. L drink mine la
ger; den | put mine hand on my head,
and dere vosh Won pain. Den / put
mine hand on my body, and dere vosh
anoder pain. Den | put mine hand
on my pocket and dere was noting.
So l jine mid de Temperance. Now
dere is no pain more in mine head,
and de pain in mine body vos all gone
away. / put mine hand in mine pock-
ct, and der vas dwenty tollars. So |
stay NIT de temperance"
Year: 1873

LITTLE GIANTs.-A short time ago
we referred to the fact that McMurry &
Hupp had rugged a hydraulic on their
claim and were the first to test that man
ner of working in Weaver Basin. Since
then Isaac Woodbury. has rugged hy-
draulic and Little Giant in his Garden
Gulch claim and finds that it is very
useful addition. The Rule Brothers will
soon have one in operation in their claim
on East Weaver Flat, and we learn that
other companies will fit up with hydraul-
les before another season.
Year: 1873

FINE SToRM.--We have had three
very good storms during the past week,
the rainfall since our last issue amount
ing to 3.20, making a total for the season
l7.S3 inches. Our miners are now, for
the first time this season, all at work with
fair supply Of water. Although the
Winter has proved a failure in a mining
point Of view, there is every indication
that the Spring will be favorable one
and that our miners will yet be able to
do two or three months sluicing.
Year: 1873

CRowDED.-The Delinquent Tax List,
Proceedings Of Board Of Supervisors,
and Auditors Financial Statement take
up so much of our space this week that
much other matter is crowded out. How
ever, the items above referred to are all
interesting.
Year: 1873

CLEVELAND, Jan. ia few days ago an
old hermit residing at soon. in this county, found
murdered In his cabin. The decd had evidently been
done several days before but shrouded in mystery
Officers however sent investigate concluded from
some curious circumstances that the murderer was
person. and this belief edto the OF the
only lehanded person in the vicinity Albert w. Cham
berlain age 49, Q member OF one of tho most widely
respected families in the county The young man had
always borne excellent reputation, and the evidence
against him purely crcumstantial, but t proved
correct for yesterday he made full confession his
guilt. The murder. according TO his confession, was
committed the night Of Jan. 8. He fred In at the
window, and shot the old dead as he was sitting
before his fire. The victim fell upon the live embers.
which partially consumed his body. Chamberlain did
enter the house till the following day. when no TOOK
VA 10 money from the pocket Of the dead man ~


s Of the strangest crimes committed ID TINS
part Of the State and has caused much excitement
Year: 1873

VOTE IN THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTY ON THE
CONSTITUENT POWER OF THE ASSEMBLY.


PARIS. Friday, Jan. II, 1873.
The Committee of Thirty, to-day, after q
long and important debate, agreed to the preamble OF
the constitutional project reported by its subcommittee
which declares that the Assembly negray to
itself the constituent power The vote stood 20 Yeas to
Nays The adoption OF the preamble is regarded as
victory the Right, the question Of monarchy or
public is left untouched
Year: 1873

Before the close of the present season,
shall offer large invoices of desirable goods
and intend and promise TO have the prices in
all cases shade lower than any other estab-
Ishment.
Year: 1873

Well, Mr.. Jones;" said neighbor Brown,
I'll start this very day for town,
And get pair of Boots for me,
And also shoe my family.
So Bill you go and harness Doll
And straight to town VIII go, by gol,
And stop in front OF SMITHS Store
Where the Boots hang DER the door.
Bill always does what father tells.
lie harnessed Doll and put on Bells,
Aud in they piled young ones and all,
Crack went the whip and Off went Doll.
Doll had been living on high feed,
And started at her fastest speed
And took Brown and Lis family straight
To Paw Paw at two-forty gait,
Whoa, Whoa, old Doll Bib cried out when
They got to Main Street, Number Ten.
And out they jumped IN front the door,
of Poet Smiths Mammoth Store.
In they went with an awful swell,
"Good morning, hope to find you well,
Said Brown as he and his young drove
Advanced to warm them at the stove.
Ny neighbor Jones brought me the news
How cheap you sold your Boots and Shoes,
so resolved to come and buy
OF you my winters full supply.
To shoe the tribe, Smith began,
Beginning first with the old man
And then the young Browns little feet.
Were shod and fitted all complete.
The news soon spread the county round.
That just the place at length was found
Where men could save fifty per cent.
On every dollar that they spent.
Remember where you can buy Coats
Thread for 8 cts. spool.


Respectfully, Yours,


K SMlTb a. 90
Year: 1873

heavy REDUCTION IN CLoTHING.-lRA, IN
his NEW DEPARTURE III his CLOTHING BUsis
NESS, Is tempting even the tempter In Offering
his goods at such heavy discOunt--namely, from
10 to 25 per cent according to kind Il is not his
intention to close business but to close out his EN-
TIRE PRESENT STOCK, with Il view to change In
the PRESENT MANAGEMENT.


His programme Of the future will be duly MADE
known at the proper time, and In the Interest OF his
FRIENDS and PATRONS. They are all asked to lend
helping hand TO close out the present stock, pre-
paratory to something on greater scale and In
keeping with the present progress of the times and
prosperity Of the city. ..


Call ut his old stand, li0s Main street, SIGN or
the LONG FLAG, and supply yourselves from him
with BARGAIN. E#E.a.
Year: 1873

MIDNIGHT ITEMs.-Quite number of ar
rests were made on Saturday night and the
station-bouses were full of drunken men
with an occasional fighter of womankind.
The glorious Fourth was kept up Saturday
evening and until a late hour at night. Pop
crackers were thrown into the streets III
portions of the city, principally down town,
and young men in hacks made night bideous
with horrible screecbing, which no doubt
they thought was excellent music. The
police prevented number Of belligerepi
men from having street fights, and when
ever necessary arrested promptly the often


lGrs
Year: 1873

ANOTHER GRAND EXCURSION TO WEST
PoEST.-A party Of enterprising young gen.
tlemen have gotten up another excursion to
West Point July 18th, a notice of which
will be found in another column. McCann's
First Regiment Band will serve up the mu-
sic, and the excursionists will doubtless have
a most delightful trip to salt water.
Year: 1873

NEW CoAcHEs.-The Richmond, York
River and Chesapeake Railroad Company
have received two new and splendid passen:
ger.coaches and baggage-car to put on
their route. They will make their first run
wednesday next. Arrangements are being
made to put another boat on the line be-
tween West Point and Baltimore, which
will be equal in all respects to that now
being run by the company. This will en-
able the management to have daily line to
and from Baltimore and all points north.
Year: 1873

Ordinance Of The BoWd Of Supervisors of Placer


County consolidating the Offices of Recorder, and


Auditor.


I VNACCORDANCEW WITH THE PROVISIONS
L of Section 4 JOG of the Political Code, 1t is
hereby ordered that the Office of County Recorder
and the Office of County Auditor in and for
the county of Placer be, and they are hereby
consolidated. and the Recorder of said County
shall be ex-olco Auditor thereof
Year: 1873

Professor Hamilton. in an able address
on hygiene to the graduates of the Buffalo
medical college, denounces broadcoth as
an enemy to exercise, and therefore to
health. He says:


"American gentlemen have adopted. as
national costume, broadcloth-a thin
tight fitting black suit of broadcloth. To
foreigners We seem always to be in mourn


ing we travel in black The priest, the
lawyer, the doctor, ihe literary man. the
mechanic and even the day laborer, choose
always tie same black broadcloth-a style
that never ought to have been adopted
out of the drawing. room or the pulpit,
because it is feeble and expensive
fabric, because il is at the North no pro-
lection against the cold, nor is it any
more suitable at the South 1t is toe thin
to be warm in winter, aud too black TO be
cool in summer; but especially do we
object TO it because the wearer is always
soiIing it by exposure. Young gentle
men will not play ball, pitch quoits, or
wreste or tumble, or any other sIniar
thing, least their broadcloth should be
offended. They will not go out into the
storm because the broadcloth will lose its
lustre if rain falls upon it they will not
-ruu. because they have 10 confidence in
the strength of their broadcluth they do
not dare mount horse or leap fence,
because broadcloth, as everybody knows,
is so faithless. So these young men and
these older men, these merchants.
mechanics and all, learn 10 walk. talk and
think soberly and carefully; they seldom
venture even to laugh to the full extent
of their sides"
Year: 1873

Deacon d. was very much interested
in revival that was taking place in the
neighborhood. and as consequence. was
continually urging his peighbors to "come
over on the Lords side, as he expressed
it. He had frequently importuued an
old neighbor Of his-who was not parti
cularly noted for his profession of reli
gion bur was nevertheless highly respec
ted by all who knew him-to attend one
of their meetings. Now, the piety anh
honesty OF the deacon was matter oi
doubt among his fellow tnwnsmen. aud
particularly SO with the old man above
mentioned. who. for convenience, we may
call Uncle Josh Alter repeated calls.
Uucle Josh consented to accompany the
deacon to one of the meetings, and accord
inyly accom- mpanied him To the "school
house one evening. much tn the surprise
of all present In the course of the even
ing he deacon arose with penitential
couuteuance to tell his experience He
was the prince OF sinners. he SAID Ii he
got his deserts he would be banished for
ever from Divine favor After making out
to be all that is vile in man. according Ia
his Interpretation of "he that humbleth
himself shall be exalted he set dow II
with the sublime sense OF having done
his duty. and asked Uncle Jn>h il he
wouldn't tell his experience With some
reluctance he meek ly rose amid the breath
less attention Of the assembly. 1t was
an unk occurrence for Uncle josh
to speak in meeting. He said he had
listened with great interest tn the re
marks oi the deacon. and he could assure
the brethren that. from his long acquaint
ance with him. he could fully indorse all
the deacon had SAID cunccrniUg his mean
ness and vlenpss, for he certainly was
the meanest man he ever knew The
wrath ot the deacon was terrific He
shook his fist under Uncle Jo>h's nose
aud exclaimed. You are confounded
liar, and II whip you as soon as you get
out Of church -
Year: 1873

There is certain style of legal gentle
men, well known to the profession and tn
business men as the collecting lawyer
very respectable, very industrious and of
ten quite successful. One of our leading
wholesale houses having an unsettled
claim against Western customer Zone
Of the tardy kind sent il down to the
office of the collecting person with in
strucrious to have it put through with all
the celeriiy consistent with legal purity
The lawyer forwarded il to an attorney
who had been recommended to him in the
town where the dilatory tradesman re
sided, and in due time received the fol
lowing reply. which. though sufficiently
concise. was not regarded as encouraging:


Dear Sir-Ynu will never get any
spouduliek from Ebenezer. The under
signed called upon him yesterday. and
found him with nary tile, his icet upon
the naked earth, and not clothes enough
upon him to wad gun He was whisI
ing and so may you.


Affectionately yours. Aristides Cobb
Year: 1873

bitterness. He kept his VOW sacredly
until he knew that death was stealing
upon him, when he felt that he would
like to close his eyes upon the world
surrounded, if possible by fellow beings
who would minister to his last wants, and
give him Christian burial


What must have been the weight of
the sorrow that sat upon this unfortunate
mans soul to induce him tn fursake the
world aud its manifold blessings and live
In bitter solitude, alone with his misery.
during an ordinary life time His case
certainly has no parallel in the history of
our race -Ne,o York Times.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Rufus u. Christian, oi North
tanning about four inches os wafer was
lett standing. during one of the recent
cold night, in his kitchen. aud it was
found in the morning that the water had
frozen in a very peculiar manner, an
lcicle having formed in the centre aud


iSen tapeIinsly to an even height with
the rim OF the pail being about half m
inch in diameter at the top, aud about
three inches in diameter at the bottom