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Year: 1873

~ The Republican is troubled about our in
uendoes. As we have refrained from mentioning
names, it thinks that persons cannot tell who are
meant, and that when tackled on the subject,
we have left creeping ont place, so that we can
say we did not mean this or that one. The beam
ty of it is, that it Is entirely unnecessary to ask
whom we meant; for by common consent of tine
persons themselves and nil Others, the saddles
have been put on the right horses.
Year: 1873

The Senatorial question is up again. If there
Is any show for an honest man who will do credit
TO our state we shall take some interest in the
matter. Bat If the contest be confined to the old
hacks, snch as Simpson. York, Osborn, Clarke,
Judas iscariot or the Devil, jnst count us out Of
the fight We have no choice in the crowd.-Ea-
reka Herald
Year: 1873

r. The temporary Chairman of the Straight
ont Democratic State Convention of Ohio, made
the significant assertion that he wanted the cry
to go abroad that the Old Guard dies, but never
surrenders." Since it is universally admitted
that the Old Guard is dead beyond resurrection,
there is no use making any great noise about it.
Year: 1873

q The question is now puzzling the public
mind, what shall be done with the s., 600 bribery
money that Senator York disgorgedf 1t seems
that no person owns it, and therefore it cannot
be legally applied to any purpose. If allowed,
we would modestly suggest way out of the diff
Guilty Let some go into room, lay the
money on a table, then 60 out, and let us have
one square yank at it. We could hide it away
so securely that all the blind preachers in christ
endom could never find it.
Year: 1873

The news from the cholera district becomes
more and more serious. Nobody ought to be
frightened, but everybody should exercise care
in diet, live cleanly and wholesomely, and the
Board Of Health should give close and intelli-
gent attention to its highly importand duties.
Year: 1873

be deprived of the physiological advan-
tages of mortal life. But the vast ma
jority Of mothers cannot for many
coming generations be made to see and
understand this fact The ministers
would be as badly shocked over such
an idea as they are Mortified over abor-
ton. So we say to American fathers
everywhere, the responsibility of this
crime rests not with the mothers, but
with you. Forgetting, as you almost
invariably do, that your own selfish de-
sires should ever be held in allowance
to your wives behests, your often i'm
pose maternity upon them when,
could they but choose for themselves,
they would vastly prefer death; and
knowing this, how dare you chide them,
when in their ignorance, terror, suffer-
ing and desperation, they commit the
blacklist crime known in the physiologi-
cal catalogue?


III our brother Hatfield is really in
earnest about comforting with the peo-
pie concerning the prevention of this
terrible crime, let him call into the coun-
ell those most interested. The women
are the real arbiters in the case, and let
him insist that they shall tell their side
of the story. The principal cause of all
this crime is enforced maternity, and
the crime will never be abolished till
the cause ceases.
Year: 1873

There is lengthy article in the Sat
t'ddy Review, comparing the women Of
England and those of other nations,
which promises to attract no little at
tention. In the outset, it hints at the
existence of q state of affairs in good
English society that has no parallel
here, simply because our best society is
at once neither so good or so bad. There
was time, and within the memory of
those who read this, when the English
patrician girl was the very type of mod
esty and sweetness, compared with
whom the French girl was forward
subtle ''thing;n but according to the
writer referred to above, all that has
been changed, and a comparison of the
the two ladies rebounds to the disad-
vantage of the fair young Briton. Slang,
it seems, is at the bottom of it. For the
last ten years the fairer half of English
patrician society seems to have been
cankered by the introduction
of slang phrases. According to the Sat
tTddy ReUiclc, the ladies of England
are breaking out into strange Oaths, and
adopting the used-up expletives of
roughs and rOwdies. This is n sufli-
ciently startling assertion, but the
writer evidently knows whereof he





withal. 1t is the characteristic of the
publication referred to that it is pre-
entitled to speak for and of
the higher classes of English society.
Among that society its circulation is
almost universal, and the plain infer
ence is that no significant statements
would appear in its columns whose
taisity could be speedily exposed. That
English society, therefore, has become
vitlated by the prevalence of fashionable
slang may be accepted as a fact; and Un-
fortunately this slang appears to be Of
the worst description. The writer even
goes so far as to charge the English
ladies with ''little ventures into the
region of blasphemy,n an accusation
which clearly indicates that slang is al
lied to irreverence, and that its effects
may not be expected to stop at the mere
corruption OF speech.


American society, too, it is feared, if
weighed in the balance, will be found
by no means free from this social weight
upon good breeding. Slang, in one form
or another is almost universal here, but
we are happy to believe that it is rs yet
a stranger to the bOudiOr. At all
events, if American wOmen-certainly
if Southern wOmen-Use slang at all, it
is innocuOus slang, and widely separated
from the sort to which the English
writer refers. The worst that they are
guilty of, and it is not a trivial fault, is
the assumption of nicknames, which
has changed all our Marys and Sarahs
and Harriets and Margarets into MOllies
and Sallies and Hatties and A1aggies.
But slang is Objectionable in any form,
and no one who has under his control
the morals of household should neglect
to suppress its first exhibition as a dan
gerous laXity, which brings immOdesty
and irraIipiOn in ite train
Year: 1873

THE CoLoNEL's STORY
"My children, the tale which I am
about to relate is one of my own life,
and true story.


az was born in Westmoreland, Vir-
ginia, and consequently have the honor
of boasting of the same State for my
birthplace rs the father of our country.


'AIy parents We're considered wealthy,
and owned a large plantation with quite
a number of slaves. My brother George,
who was Roberts father, and myself
were the only children, when a little
sister made her appearance in our
midst. Great was the joy at her birth,
and brilliant were the future prospects
in anticipation for the little stranger.


''My father, I am sorry to say, was
rather a cruel master and exacted the
most implicit obedience from his sub
jects, or inflicted rigid punishment.
This evil might have been averted had
my mother been a woman whose mild
and gentle influence excited a sway
over my father, but, on the contrary,
she was Of a very indolent disposition,
with little thought for those around her.
Though her disposition was very affec-
tionate, and she idolized her husband
and children, still she seemed TO hold
the poor slaves who We're utterly de-
pendent upon her in adherence, all but
Kizzy, who was house-keeper, and
whom she held in high esteem. Cleo
patra, or Patty, as she was always
called, young mulatto woman about
twenty, was appropriated as nurse to
our little sister, our old nurse having
died short time previous. Somehow
my mother and Patty could never agree,
the former continually reprimanding
the latter for some misdemeanor, and
the latter constantly doing something
to annoy her mistress, until a perfect
hatred seemed to exist between them.
At this crisis, Notwithstanding she was
an excellent nurse, my mother resolved
to part with her in that capacity and
place her where she would be less in her
sight At this time my sister was about
a year old, when one day my parents
had occasion to visit a neighboring town
on business and left her in the care oi
Patty until their return, which would
be in 4 few hours, telling my brother
and myself to remain at home, and
upon no cosnideration to leave our sis
ter alone with her nurse, seeming tC
have a presentiment Of coming evil.
They had been gone about an hOul
when neighbor's children came to
spend the day with us. So delighted
were we with our friends that we quite
forgot our parents injunctions and
thoughtlessly accompanied our friends
TO favorite spot quite distance from
the house, where We remained until tbe
return of our parents reminded Ms Of our
disobedience. Obeying their call. we
entered the house; but what was on,
fright and dismay when we bebeId ON,
darling little sister, whom We all fairl,
idolized, lying motionIess, and so nal,
and still that we felt sure we ,vera II
the presence Of the dead. Our fatbe,
and mother, nearly overwhelmed wifi
grief, were trying every means in tbai,
power to restore the little sufferer I,
consciousness, without any avail. unit
the arrival of our family physician, VIII,
Year: 1873

Men are dying every day.


Widows are cropping about with tear
dimmed eyes in total ignorance of that
which is necessary to be done to settle
and arrange business matters upon
which the comfort Of their fatherless
children depends.


Still do tire majority Of women ignore
the importance Of understanding and
taking an interest in business matters,
sufficient to know what needs to be at
tended to, i'm case they are left alone to
battle with the world.


Many men are culpablc for the ignOr-
ance of their wives. "They do not ped
die their affairs to women. Let my
wife attend to her business and I'll at
tend to mine," is the motto of many
very good, but shOIt-sighted men.


From men, women are impressed that
knowledge of business matters makes
them appear ''strong-minded,n and to
be attractive they must not bother their
heads with the intricacies and peTpleXi-
ties with which men are daily brought
in contact.


1t is amusing to see these pretty crea-
lures toss their heads in disdain of hav-
ing anything to DO with disagreeable
subjects; all matteT-Of-fact practicali-
ties, and the routine of business per-
sued by the sharer Of joys and woes be-
ing included in the taboOed category.


She could not write bank check cor
rectly, even if to fail were the forfeit of
much desired acquisition to her already
elaborate wardrobe.


And Notwithstanding the "finish" OF
her education in q fashionable seminary
to the expense Of several thousands OF
dollars you might as well ask a dane
ing-jacl to compute the interest on a
note, as to imagine her dainty head
eq2ial to the task.


Poor thing, her power of strength and
ineXhaUstible eXchequer may die some
day, and leave a nice fortune to be used
up by the bad management of lawyers,
and she will find her revenue suddenly
cut off, and discover herself as helpless
as babe in the woods. Fools will only
l learn by eXperience.-EIHl OrLOU.
Year: 1873

MEN GossIPs.-A woman gossip, like
a man drunkaTd, is bad indeed, but of
all things n man gossip and drunken
woman are the worst. To see n man
shaking his head and twisting his
mouth over bits OF tattle and making
a great ado about nothing, IS disgnst-
ing.


Now and then one sees n regular old
man gossip, although they are not as
frequently met with as among women,
which is a thing to cause rejoicing, be-
cause one man gossip can do more harm
than ten women with each poisonous
sting on the end of her tongue. He sets
forth the things he tells as facts, ana
saving: 81 ought to know what | say
for being a man I see both sides OF liie,
and get at the truth when you women .L.s
caunot.u That settles it, ana the ma
iority accent the bugbears for gospel
Year: 1873

The Gardeners Monthly speaks Of
the popular idea that as plants are
known to give off carbonic acid gas at
night, their presence in sleeping rooms
is consequently unwholesome-as being
"nonsense" and a"bugaboo" 1t states
that sleeping infant in the room
which many of us learn to tolerate
will "exhale more carboaic acid in one
night than hundred pot plants" and
quotes certain recent investigations on
the subject by Prof. Kenzie, Of the
Michigan Agricultural College. Prof.
X. has been analyzing air taken before
sunrise from the cellege greenhouse,
crowded with plants, and finds it to con-
tain actually fraction less carbonic
acid than was present in the atmosphere
out of doors. A similar examination
of air taken in the daytime showed still
less than at night. Prof KS conclu-
sion is:


Now, if room in which were more
than 5000 plants, while containing more
carbonic acid by night than by day con-
tains less carbonic acid than any sleep
ing room on this continent, we may
safely conclude that one or two dozen
plants in room will not exhale enough
carbonic acid by night to injure the
sleepers."
Year: 1873




Even those copper colored cut-throats,
the Apache Indians, have a touch of
delicacy and romance in them. From
a lecture delivered in San Francisco by
Colonel John G. Carmany, we take the
following account of their courting Gus
toms; Every youag girl is at liberty to
refuse a suitor for her hand. The
father, mother and brother are prohib-
tied from interfering in her choice. Her
person is at her own disposal. After q
brief courtship the lover makes formal
proposal by offering so many horses.
Horses are standard of value among
Indians. As the squaw does all the
work, horses are accepted as an equiva.
lent for her labor. When a young war
rior becomes enanored he fastens the
horse near the wigwam of the squaw
whose hand he seeks, where he is left
for four days. If she fails to feed and
water the horse during that time the
master is rejected, but if she accepts his
offer she grooms and kindly cares for
the horse, and then ties him to the wig
wan of her lover, as much as to say, L
am willing to be your slave and do your
work. At the marriage the sages and
sachems meet together and the bride is
not unfrequently loaded with forty to
fifty pounds Of silver and copper
trinkets.
Year: 1873

The TRIAL OF CURTIN.-San Francis


co had another farce, as the murder trials


of that city are truly said to be. The


'unwritten law" which gives father,


brother or husband the right to murder,


in cold blood, an alleged seducer, has
again been vindicated, and Thomas Cur
tin, who murdered a boy of nineteen years
for the alleged seduction of his daughtcr,
is declared by a jury of his peers to have
committed no crime. Doubtless there
are instances, and perhaps, many of them
where a man may be held justified in
taking the law into his own hands, but it
strikes us that this is not one of them.
1t was not deed committed upon the
spur of the moment, and in the excite
ment Of passion upon discovering for the
first time that the work of ruin had been
wrought; +; but after days and weeks in


which there was ample opportunity for
cool reflection, even if that opportunity
was not improved. 1t would appear from
the general result of such trials as if the
impression prevailed in the minds of
courts and juries that a woman could do
no wrong. That in such matters the
crime and the sin was wholly ..non ore
side, whilo the other was, by virtue of
its sex, endowed from the cradle with
naught but innocence and purity. Yet
this girl appears from the evidence to
have been the reverse of all this; female
hoodlum who used profane language in
the streets, got up rows with other girls
at places of amusement, and conducted
herself in such a manner that her father
thought seriously of sending her to the
industrial school. The acquaintance of
the alleged seducer was of her own seek
ing, and it would seem that she persist
emily sought his company. One would
naturally suppose that testimony of this
character would leave on the minds of a
jury some impressions that there had
been blame resting on the shoulders of
both the young people, but if so, it was
more than overpowered by maudin
sympathy which made them declare that
murder is not crime. The case was
tried before Judge Dwinelle, who when
the verdict was rendered, told Curtin that
che did not regret it," Such an express
sion, made on the eve of an election at
which Dwinelle was candidate for the
highest legal position in the State, has
without doubt lost him many vote, as
it should do.
Year: 1873

THE THIRD PARTY MONUMENTAL
this present writing but little is known of
the result of the election outside of this
county, and all conclusions to which we
may come will be only guess work.
There is one conclusion, however, to
which we can safely arrive, but it is
based on the vote of this county, meager
as are our returns and that is that Dwi-
nellie is overwhelmingly defeated. Whoth-
er Mckee or McKinstry is the choice
over him is more difficult to determine,
but we incline to the belief that the Dem
ocratic Judicial ticket is elected.


Our reasons for this belief are these !:
The new party has displayed a great
deal of activity in its cause, and has left
no stone unturned to carry its ends. The
country has been flooded with circulars
and tickets and in most instances these
circulars have been sent to old-linc Re-
publicans, the Independents evidently
recognizing the futility of attempting to
make converts from the Democratic
ranks. Their efforts have been so far
crowned with success rs to drawing n
large percentage of the Republican vote
to the support Of their candidate, while
Democrats generally have stood by their
man, as was to be expected by any one
having any correct Knowledge of the
political character of the average Demo-
crat. Where McKinstry has got one
vote from the Democratic ranks, he has
taken at least eight from those of the
Republicans. With the vote of the Repub-
licans divided between two candidates,
it becomes an easy matter to the Demo-
cratic nominee to slip in, if he carries
anything near the strength Of his party.


1t is claimed, however, that the Demo-
Gratis who acted with the Independents in
the general election will support McKins-
try for Supreme Judge. If this claim is
well founded, he is probably elected. We
place, however, but little reliance on the
assertion of the McKinstry organ that
such will be the case, for the general dis
position Of Democrats is to secure par
ty triumph when possible, and to be con-
tent with half loaf ronly when q whole
one cannot be got.
Year: 1873

~ New DODGE latest dodge of q
lIfo Insurance agent in this city is to hand
strangers in church, neatly bound pamph-
lets on endowment and on-forfeiting
policies. The verdant strangers hunt all
through the books for the hymn. suppos-
ing them to be part of the religious SER
vice. The picture of man bending in
prayer over one of these pamphlets Is
q lite amusing. Ma1ysvfHe ApPeat.
Year: 1873

In LUCK.-J. j. Bell, of Bells Bridge,
Shasta county, had a fine horse stolen


from his stable one night last week. Bell
took the track of the thief and getting
the general direction, took the train to
Chico. While waiting at livery stable
in that place for II horse to be saddled,
the thief came into town, riding the stolen
horse and was Immediately arrested by
Bell and is now lodged in Jail at Shasta.
Year: 1873

THE fools are not all dead yet. Three
of them tried voyaging across the Allan
tic in balloon but got no farther than
the land of wooden nutmegs: another
proposes to cross the continent in bal
loon and the rest are nominating Booth
for President.
Year: 1873

IS his forthcoming report to Congress,
Postmaster General Cresswell will renew
his postal telegraph recommendations
and will also recommend the establish
ment Of a Post Office Savings Bank,
Year: 1873

We have had a good healthy scare about
scarlatina which was prevalent amongst
children and caused the death Of many
of them, and now we have the groupings
of smallpox epidemic from the Chinese
quarter. One case to-day and several
reported which the Health officers are
unable to find.
Year: 1873




He gloried in being a British subject,
and could assure the house that he was
a loyal man to his queen. Mr.. Dodge
proceeded to say that yesterday gentle
man of the opposition side, wishing to
convert him (Dodgel to the opposition
views of liberalism, and thinking to
fiatter his supposed American procliy-
tiles, said that the time was not far
distant when the whole Of this continent
would be united in one great republic,
when Canada would dispense with the
emblems ofroyalty, and when the house
could convene and adjourn without the
use of that gilded bauble, referring to
the mace. But the gentleman found
that he had mistaken his man, and was
speaking to one who detested the terror
ism, the corruption, and the rascslities
that characterized the government OF
the United States, and especially OF the
city of New York and Other large cities.
MIR Dodge then referred 20 the speesah
of liberal member who had preceded
Year: 1873

The following gossip about the Deelsr-
alton OF independence is from Wood s
Household Magazine, and is by the Rev.
]. B. Wakeley;


In looking AZ the signatures, not one
is written with a trembling hand except
Stephen Hopkins. Il was not fear that
made him tremble, for be was as true a
patriot as any Of them, but he was af-
hicted With the palsy.


But one Of the residences Of the sign
ers is attached to his name. and that Is
Charles Carol It's said that one vas
looking over his shoulder when be wrote
his name, and said to him, There are
several OF your name, and II We are un-
successful they viii not know whom TO
arrest" be Immediately wrote, of
Year: 1873

insignificant as is the spot We inhaoit


the zone of life, the area which not only
aIl that live and breathe and move IN
habit but in which all vegetation is con
tained. is still more limited. From the
submarine forest in the lowest depths OF
tbe sea TO the highest altitude to which
he condor scars, above the perpetual
nov is but twelve miles; six miles OF
air above ms, six miles OF water beneath
everything that has vitality is confined;
If-tie salamander lives in the central
Ere. the exception is 50 small as 70 Be
scarcely worth mentioning Ihe air
presses upon the earth with force
equsl 70 thiriy-three feet Of vaieri and
unon every average human body With a
weight Of fifteen tons, which only does
net squash us fat as pancakes because
Year: 1873

Superintendent McFadden calls at
tention in a letter which we print in
another column, to failure to collect
the poll tax. We learn that since the
date of his communication, several


hundred persons have paid their tax,


bringing up the amount to the usual
figure, and the Treasurer expects that
considerable collections will yet be


made. Though the amount realized
from this tax might by extra diligence
be considerably increased, yet under
existing regulations it is impossible to
come very Hear securing the whole
amount due. We have large floating
population, here to-day and gone to-
morrow. Their names get on the regis
ter, but by tax-paying time, they are
elsewhere. Then again there are great
many, from whom 1t is impossible to
collect any tax. The law only pro-
vides for the sale Of property by the of
ficers, and if the individual who owes
the tax has no property, that is the
end of the matter. There are probably


six hundred men in this city alone,


from whom 1t would be useless to at
tempt the collection of the tax, and all
over the county this class is numerous
Year: 1873

THE Express has taken occasion to
call attention to thedact that the HER
AID has copied certain statements OF
fact from Denver paper without CIV
ing credit, and will Of course take no
exception to our noticing its theft OF
the HERALD's special dispatches.
Last evening that paper copied entire
a special dispatch received and paid
for by the HERALD, and published
Sunday morning. The Express stated
editorially that 1t was received yes
terday, that is, Sunday, giving no
credit to anyone. AS it was scissored
from our columns, it knew when and
by whom it was received, and while it
was about 1t, might as well have told
the truth, as to have stated what 1t
knew to be a falsehood. The Express
is welcome to copy our specials, but
when it undertakes to say anything
about where they come from, we pre-
fer it should tell the truth.