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Year: 1870

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publishing. 1t is against our rule to publish
any communication unless accompanied with
the true name of the author.
Year: 1870

THE CoNCERr.-Yhe concert for raising
means 70 improve the City Cemetery, came
off on Monday evening at Turn Neren Hall.
The attendance was large, singing and
music excellent, giving universal satisfaction.
Credit is due to all who took part in the per-
formance, they doing so well that it would be
unfair to specially mention any cne. The
committee under whose coatrol the affair was
gotten up, deserve the thanks of our commu-
nifty, for the very efficient manner with which
they applied themselves to make the enter
tainment so pleasant and agreeable to those
present and accomplish the object desired.
They have the satisfaction of knowing that
their efforts were appreciated, together with
those who assisted them, among whom was
young Miss Julia llaag who is entitled to
praise for the part she performed towards
making it success. We are informed by
one of the committee that the amount realized
over expenses was Sl20.
Year: 1870

Cry ELEcTIoN.-Monday next, the annual
Municipal Election will take place in Sonora.
There will be no lack of candidates for Trus-
tees, as several tickets are represented to be
in the field. 1t would have been as we'll for
tins Legislature to repeal the City Charter,
but as is has not and probably will not, our
citizens should use some care in selecting
their officers. They should not look upon the
Board of Trustees as unimpOrtant, it must
be remembered that the men who are to COM
pose it, will have power to levy taxes and en-
force their collection Such men should be
chosen as will not create or allow aay but
most necessary expenses. The taxpayers of
Sonora have in the past paid enormous sums
for sustaining City government, and there
is no earthly use now for Trustees, except
that somebody must keep our streets in good
condition. Look to it tax payers, that you do
your duty, if through your own Negligence
you should be overtaxed by the new Board,
you will have no cause to complain.
Year: 1870

The show Of women alone was worth half
the price of admission to the Pavilion. Tbe
female sex seem in this part Of the country to
be getting very numerous. 1t looks as if
there should be enough to 60 round, one at
least fer every man. The money piled on
some of these women in the shape of dia-
monGs, silk; turs and jewelry IS terrifying to
the single masculine heart, at say, one hun
dred dollars month. Yet we like to see wo-
men handsomely apparelied. We should
growl did she not consult fancy in the deco
ration of her person. It's in paying for it
that the shoe pinches. 1t grows yearly so
much harder to obtain the necessary cash.
Men don't marry so much as they used to on
this account. It's far easier not to support a
wife and family. After 80, the chances of a
man forming a connubial partnership dimin-
ish very rapidly. He finds out how to get
along without marriage. He looks at your
care worn man of family with wife and nine
children, working hard to make both ends
meet, and says I" Not For Joseph ~ if you
please. | thought much upon this subject at
the Festival, l conclude that expensive dress
will indirectly cause the legitimate population
of the world to dwindle to nothing.


THE LEGISLATURE.


Most of the Assembly and Senate went
down to hear the noise. They are again back
footing their own horns. There's now but
little over month to run. What's to be
Year: 1870

For few days last week, the Davenport
brothers were uppermost in the minds Of Sac
ramento. Citizens and lawmakers alike went
to see them, saw, wondered. left, commenced
explaining how the untying trick was done,
and wondered how it was done after they had
explained it. Every man in ten could tie the
Davenports so that they could not unite them
selves. Numbers of knot sharps had their
little day, then quickly died out of sight.
The Davenports move serenely through this
excitement which their exhibition causes in
every place they visit, enjoy their dinner and
wine, make their appearance at the appoint
ed hour on the stage, also their bow, seat
themselves in the cabinet, are tied bv some
one of the townspeople, who thinks he'll get
them this time. unite themselves in four or
ten minutes. gaze triumphantly on the won
dering audience reseat themselves, re-appear
in few minutes tied firmly by nobody, and
pocket their regular cash.


THE FESTIVAL.


Had we in the line of music expected less.
we would have received more. Bet the
newspapers wrought everybody up to too
great pitch of anticipation. There was no
exaggeration as to the crowd outside and in;
that fully equalled anticipation. But we had
expected to be Knocked down every few min
utes by grand crashes of music. We were
not The only harm done was by one of the
cannons, blowing one mans arm nearly off
and shooting its own ram-rod through q lager
beer saloon. 1t was big concert--nothing
more. We had no business expecting any
thing more. 1t was something like ou7 youth
full Fourth Of July's, " done and gone " in no
time. The previous anticipation far exceed
ed the reality.
Year: 1870

ers-An Eloquent Plea for sobri
ETY..


From the New York Star.l


A correspondent writing TO the Stai
from Troy gives the following particu
lars of terrible case Of suicide by q
miserable votary of rum, which occurred
near Eagle Bridge on Wednesday last
The victim of the terrible tragedy was O
young man named Frank Nutting, res
ident of Lansipgburg. This miserable
young man was possessed Of more than
ordinary mental abilities, and at one pc
riod Of his life bade fair to make his
mark in the world. But, alasl rum Sc
lected him for its victim; and, dragging
him down to the lowest depth Of degra'
dation, eventually plunged him into a
suicides grave. He chose for the scene
of his death the track of the Troy and
Boston railroad, at the aforementioned
point, stretching himself upon the rail
with his head turned from the engine as
it approached, and thus awaited death.
His body was mutilated in the most
frightful manner. His head hung to his
body by a mere thread, and he was 9th
erwise shockingly cut up. On examin-
ing the clothing of the deceased several
small articles, together with the follow
ing letter, we're found:


Il have selected this place because the
curve is large and cannot be seen until
it is too late to stop the engine. Thus |
will 90 out of the world with rush | |
have fortified myself with some forty rod
whisky, which got at the Hollow, where
may be found some of the same sort.
Whoever finds my dead body and this
paper will know who / am. Send my
personal effects to my wife, Mrs. Ger
trude Nutting, in Lansingburg. / did
this by my own hand. Rum is the cause.
have but one regret; that is my wife;
for she has been wife to me in every
sense of the word; but / cannot live any
longer, for am tired of life. So now,
farewell to the world


FRANK NUTTING."


II should like to write to c. j. Lam
sing, Lansingburg, but my time is short,
and have no paper. +. N.


Il write this on the top of the rail.
Bury me in my clothes, as | am. / am
not worthy of shrsud or coffin. have
twenty-five cents in my vest pocket.
Send that and the other things to my
wife as before directed. | have a brother
at Johnsonville. | hope he will shed one
tear in my memory, and then
Year: 1870

wA good story is told Of a
Tioga county merchant who agreed
to take a farmers oats at forty
cents bushel if the latter would
let him tramp the measures when
filled. The farmer agreed to it.


The buyer paid for sixty bushels
and next day went after them. The
farmer filled the half bushel, and
the merchant got in and trampled
them down. Whereupon the far
mer poured the oats so compressed
into the bag. The merchant pro
tested. and demanded that the mea-
sure should be filled up after tramp


ing. The farmer informed him that
there was no agreement of that
sort, but that he might tramp down
the oats to his hearts content after
they were measured. r u qm. F.
Year: 1870

had not got into mischief.


O, no, Nicholas" said Boyle; u


met friend who took me home to


supper, and would not let me 90
through the streets a night so I re-
mained with him. I think I shall
start for Odessa by the first steamer,
and shall be obliged by your going
and inquiring when she starts"


Ofcourse Boyle intended to for
felt the passago-money to Odessa
and to take another passage by the
first steamer to Trieste, which he
knew left in a day or so. He went
that morning, and secured his berth,
and resolved to stay in his hotel du-
J ring the remainder of his soiourn in
Constantinople, and not expose him
self in any way. He never could
make out how his purchase had
oozed out, but that night he heard a
rustling in his room, and had lust
time to fire one barrel of his revol-
yer at some one who had evidently
been prowling about-with evil intent.
He had left the false packet in the
breast pocket of his coat, and in the
morning found it was gone. It was
evident that his secret was known,
and he trembled for the letter which
had been sent by post.


He had taken his breakfast, when
the landlord Of the hotel came to
him in the most excited manner, and
informed him that a Turkish officer
was waiting at the door. Boyle went
down to him, and was at once ar
rested on charge of dealing in gems
without paying the government tax.
OF course no diamonds were found
on him, or his boxes, and bribing
every one all round, so that no far
ther inquiries might be made he
was allowed to depart.


swell" said Maxwell, "that dia-
mond reached Paris safely, and Bo-
gle, going home through that city,
had the satisfaction Of taking it to
London, and placed it one morning
before his astonished partners eyes.
1t is now for sale for forty thousand
pounds, in one of the Presidency
towns in India, and will probably
be bought by some native rajah, to
be hidden away in a secret place,
perhaps to see the light and run an
other course of adventure a century
hence"
Year: 1870

Since it is more important how
we live than how we die, and since
death is merely the arrival of the
end of a journey-the beginning,
progress and history Of the journey
determining what the arrivals to
be-we shall do we'll not to borrow
trouble with regard to the manner
of our departure put of the world
and be solicitous only with regard
to the right discharge Of present
duty.
Year: 1870

GoING BACK TO OLD PRINCIPLES. st is
suggested by an English Admiral that the
PROV of the vessel instead of the gun, viii
be the great arbiter in wars OF the future;
and that the ''ram should be built OF great
strength, great speed, great handiness, and
low in the water" So far all agree; but the
Admiral thinks that for ocean service the


''ram" should be without gun, and with
out armor plating. The science Of naval
warfare would certainly be very much
simplifed if all engagements were reduced
| to trial of ''butting." It might be easy
for the '.ram" when q wooden vessel of the
ordinary build, or even an iron one of the


usual model were 10 be sunk. But how
when 'ram meets RAMP" The tug Of war
would come down to q series of mere bob
| bing exploits OF the most brutal kind Bat
| perhaps the sooner war is reduced to its
revolving absurdity, the sooner men viii
have done with it.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the Augusta, (Ga.)
Sentinel says that he has for some time
past been engaged III testing property sit,
uated on Yoboola creek, one mile east of
Dahlonegah, where he has now fine stamp
mill in operation. He writes: ''My oper-
ations On Cavenders creek l was obliged
to abandon on account of a lack of the ne
cessary water to run my mill steadily.
now have good mine and excellent water
power, and expect to do a pretty fair
business. Our ore is, in general, of 81
low grade, yielding from one to
two dollars per ton by the mill pro-
cess, but as we can mine and mill those
ores at from twenty-five to thirty cents per
ton it leavesa fair margin. My first week 5
work of FIVE days resulted in eighty five
penny Weights OF analgam, and last week q
run of six days in one hundred and fifty
two penny weights. When I have the mine
fairly opened and am little more at lei
sure L will give you full account OF my
operations for the Yaboola and Georgia
creek. 1t is certain that this section has
an abundance of low grade ore, which, by
EjudiciouS management, pays handsome
profit, and that low grade ores form the
basis of permanent mining is an indisputa-
BILE fact.
Year: 1870




A ROMANTIC INCIDENT OF THE WAR.
In the blooming, beautiful, balmy
May of 1868, one of those dread
battle-staincd years never to be for
gotten, Gen. Tilghman fell, shot
dead at the battle Of Champion Hill,
CALAMITY struggling in deicnceof
cherished principles. His noble life
cbbed away upon the spot whore he
fell and the sad earth drank his
blood with greedy thirstincss. But
upon that immediate spot grew q
peach tree that reached maturity
while its roots stepped themselves IN
the martyrs blood. Singular to re-
late, the leaves and fruit Of this tree
arc q blood rcd color. The tree was
transplanted and is now in tho or.
chard Of DR.. John l.. Hebron, Of


this county. The prcpagatious
from the same AFRO also Of the same


peculiar color. There Is certainly


something remarkable about this
We have seen the leaves and must


confess that they do look and even


Ito us) smell like blood. The fact


can be witnessed by those taking


the trouble ricksbury Herald.
Year: 1870

1t Descartes we think, who recon-
mended every man occasionally to purge him
self of all acquired knowledges and begin at
the rudments again. Some of our English
scientific neighbors seem disposed to put his
maxim to the test, and have begun apparently
by reducing themselves to the proper condition
of idiocy. One would think that Europe
might furnish them just now with sufficient
subjects for interest or speculation but, on the
contrary, they have turned their backs on it,


and are waging fierce war on the questions of
whether the earth is round or fiat, and does
the sun move or stand still2 A modern
Hampden, who is resolved apparently to remain
neither mute nor ignoble," is the leader of
the party who are gong thus resolutely back
to first principles, and is supported by a
number of adherents who are strange as it
may seem, possessed of both educa-
ton and ability. They have distributed their
pamphlets and tracts broadcast in this country


thinking it worth while to warn us that we
are near the edge of the great plane, and may
inadvertently trip over the falling-off place


They also offer reward of f1OO to any one
who can prove the rOtundity or motion of
the earth from Scripture, reason, or fact.n
We are called upon to render homage to the
Church OF Rome, (which, although she may
have erred in her divinity, certainly has nobly
rejected the fallacies of spurious science


Nothing can exceed the contempt and derision
with which she yet regards the absurdities and
"senseless inventions of Coperncus or New
"ton,"-a piece of information which both sur
priscs and pains us, as we had supposed that,
however we might differ on divine or doctrinal
points with Pho Mono, upon the one fact of
the turnip shape of the globe we live on we
could sit down with him in perfect accord.


This is not the only startling fact, however,
enunciated by MIR. Hampden and the Profess
sors of Queens College, Cambridge. who are
his coadjutors. The sun is proved, "by the
outlay only OF g." to be but eight hundred
miles distant. Being so much nearer than
Australia or our own country, we look upon
the discovery IA especially lucky for England
in her present perplexity as to what to do
with her DauDers But in case communication
Year: 1870

ave will have no controversy says The
World, "with any Republican journal respect
"ing municipal affairs previous to the new
"charter. With the displacement of the old
Organization that subject passed out of poll
cites into history. . . The old municipal
Organization is dead, and we have no con-
"cern with it,"


We are not surprised that Democratic
newspaper, especially one which has borne the
most unmistakable testimony to the frauds of
the Tammany oligarchy, should prefer 10 enter
upon the present campaign without the en-
barrassing recollection of the history OF the
party in this city; but to this airy way OF
wipng out old scores, and starting afresh with
a clean slate the people certainly will not con
sent. The former organization may have
passed into history, but it will not pass out OF
politics while the same men who made it the cor
rupt system which it was are still the leaders of
the Democratic party, and pursue under the new
charter the same course which they pursued
under the old. Is Mr.. William NJ. Tweed, with
vastly enlarged powers and more compact
municipal organization at his command, any
less the enemy of public and private honesty
and political rights than he was before For
mcrly there were at least certain departments
of the city government which Tammany could
not use. The Police, the Park Commission.
the CrotOn Water Board, and so on, were hon
estly and efficiently managed by Albany ap-
pOintees Mr. Tweed's share of the municipal
system was notorious for incficiency and
fraud. Under the new order the control of
everything has been given over 70 the men
who abused their trust when they had control
of part. TO refuse to go back and discuss
their management of that part IL prudent III
The World but Republican journals have no
idea of accepting such proposal.


The new charter might be in theory an lm-
provement upon the old if there were any
means by which the great party of rogues who
made it could be turned out of place, and q
fair vote of the people be taken for new set
of officers. With honest men at the heads OF
departments the administration might at any
rate be more efficient than it used TO be. But
Mr.. Tweed, "a nobody knows better than The


World, is burden not 20 be easily shaken of.
He is a dreadful load TO carry through the
State canvass, but his party cannot get rid OF
him, and they will beg US in vain to shut our
eyes and make believe we don't see him. Now
that his power for mischief is so much en-
larged the history of his past miSdeedS becomes
more important than ever. We shall next
have The World protesting against an inquiry
into the record of Mr.. Tweed's associate,
James Fisk, jr., or his agent, MIR. John T..
Hoffman. When Fraud and Debauchery be-
come partners in the prOprletOrship OF Gov
ernor, and obtain charter giving them un-
limited scope for operations their character
and history cannot be too minutely in
yeStigated.
Year: 1870

Tie Board of Police has discovered that in
novation is not always improvement, and has
abolished the surveillance of patrolmen by
grand roundsmen. When the system was
established we feared that it was vicious in
principle and would be mischievous in practice.
The Board seems to have arrived at the same
conclusions by an experience that has unhap-
ply done much to demoraIize a force already
inefficient enough. We hope there will now be
a complete return to the sensible method OF
general supervision and holding the captains
for their several districts.
Year: 1870

Although this is an age of windfalls and
although we have heard of fifty different
American families who were to come at once
into mastodonian European fortunes, yet up to
this hour we have no knowledge that any one
of the eager expectants has ever realized one
hard shilling ont of all these melting golden
dreams. The latest case is that of the Ban-
welt family in NewJersey, which considers
itself entitled to an estate of about six millions
of dollars in Holland. OF course, the claim
ants are to hold Convention and appoint q
Committee, and send an agent to Holland,
and make a nice little business for the lawyers
generally; and when we hear that they have
touched the money, ii viii give us the most
benevolent satisfaction to announce the au-
rfer0us circumstance.
Year: 1870

1t is one of the .miseries of royalty, we sup
pose to have no private hours, no personal
secrets 80 sacred that the world will think it
dishOnorable to pry into them, no correspond
ence, even with wife, that may not be
dragged out of its pigeon-hole and given to the
newspapers. In the great rummaging among
the Imperial effects now going on at the Tuil-
cries, it does not seem to strike anybody that
Napoleon, though he may be a political crimi-
nal, is after all man of flesh and
blood, with some personal rights, and
some private retreats which ought not to be
invaded. 1t is well that we should know
indeed all about the great Mexican swindle,
and learn how injustice was dispensed iD dark
chambers of the Tuileries, and how Bis
marck's story of the proposed partition treaty
was all true; but why must the wretched
story of Marguerite Belanger be dragged to
lightP Why must the sad letters of the poor
creature be exposed to the cruelty of printf
And must we read NJ. Louis Bonaparte's
letters to his wife, as well as these mourn
full little epistles from his mistress7 History
will doubtless gather ample stores from the
documents which have now fallen into the
hands of the remOrseless Provisional Govern
ment; but do let us remember that it is possi-
BILE for us to learn too much.
Year: 1870

We are sorry Qor the credit of our crafD
that the late Empress of France should be
annoyed (as it is said that she is) by news
paper reporters bent upon an interview She
has DIR. Evans, the great dentist, with her.


however, to protect her; and he might put a
permanent notice upon the gates to the effect
that all "interviewers found upon the
premises would have their teeth pulled with
out mercy. We should be the more reconciled
to this summary procedure, because we really
do not believe that her late Majesty has any
thing worth printing to say. If her husband
politically is reduced to zero, she may be set
down at zero divided by two. with the Prince,
Year: 1870

We are now informed that the Gueuiere, when
she ran aground off Nantucket, was in charge
of regular pilot, and that her captain isr
therefore, not to blame. For the credit of the
American navy, we are glad to hear it. We
hope we shall next hear of an investigation
into the case of that pilot How glad he must
be that the Admiral whom he carried was no,
alive when he ran the ship ashore in broad
DAYLIGHT
Year: 1870

When it was reported two weeks ago that
yellow fever had made its appearance in New
York, the Board Of Health assured us the ru-
NOR was unfOunded; whatever the disease
might be, it certainly was not that Now,
when il has got fair headway on Governors
Island, the medical gentlemen discover that it
is yellow fever and the island is declared
nnder quarantine. Here is case which calls


Or explanation. Fortunately there is no dan
Year: 1870

immigration to this country from Germany
has not been materially checked by the Euro
pean war, as it was greatly feared would prove
the case. The arrivals at this port for the
week ending last Saturday were twice as great
as for any week during the last two months !;
and the total arrivals for August last were
only 1886 less than for the corresponding
periOd of last year.