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Year: 1873

nay It is curious how the same zeal
OF piety takes different directions in diff
ferent lands. In Boston they shut up
the beer shops on Sunday; at Stuttgart
they shut up the pump! That is, cold
water cannot be had during the time of
church service. At the time when SER
wee begins, every pump has its attend
ant policeman, who stands guard over
it until the sacred ceremonies are at an
end. A belated Madsohen, approaching,
tub on head, sees the guardian of the
days sanctity, who raises his hand with
an awful gesture; she turns and flies In
terror. Beer flows meanwhile without
hindrance. And so it is that men are
good in various ways, some devoutly
drying up in one quarter and some in
another.
Year: 1873

A QUAKER PRINTERS PRovERBs.--
Never sendest thou in an article for pub
lication without giving the editor your
name, for the name oftimes secure pub
lication to worthless articles.


Thou shouldst not rap ut tho door of
a printing office, for he that answereth
the rap snecreth in his sleeve and loseth
time.


Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques-
tions or knock down type, or the boys
will love the like they do shade trees
when thou leaveth.


Thou shouldst never read the copy
on the printers case or on the hook
thereof, or he may knock thee down.


Never inquire thou of the editor for
the news, for behold it is his business
at the appointed time, to give it to thee
without asking.


Thou shouldst not ask him who is the
author of an article, for his duty re-
quireth him to keep such things to him
self


When thou dost enter into his Office,
take heed unto thyself that thou dost
not look at what may be lying open and
concerneth thee not, for that is not
meet in the sight of good breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof-sheet,
for it is not ready to meet thine eye,
that thou mayest understand it.


Prefer thine own town paper to any
other and subscribe for it immediately.


Pay forit in advance and it shall be
we'll with thee and thine.
Year: 1873

A PEOPLE WITHOUT SEX IN DRESS. -
A correspondent writes from Point de
Gallo as follows: The Cingalese are a
most difficult race to distinguish sexual
ly. Over and over again you ask is
that man or n woman. Both dress in
the same way, or rather, wear almost
no dress at all. The hair of both is
long and twisted up into knot at the
back Of the head, semi-circular comb
being used by the better classes of the
males to keep the hair back from their
foreheads. All the men working about
tho boats and lighters are in measure
amphibious; they are as much at home
on the water as on the land. We saw
one fail to get his line attended to on
board the steamer Tn an instant he
seized it in his teeth, jumped overheard
from the lighter, swan to the steame,
and made it fast. No sooner does the
visitor enter the verandah of the hotel
than he or she is surrounded by host
of merchants of all classes, offering Jew.
elry, laces, dresses, combs, fans, and a
host of other things. Precious stones
are found in great numbers on the
island, while the pearl fisheries supply
splendid pearls. These sellers are the
most importunate In the world. They
will follow you half day, pressing
their wares until you feel inclined to re-
sort to violence to get rid of them. You
never know whether you have paid
enough or too much. They ask $25(
and accept $25, and it is dangerous te
make an offer however inconsistent will
the demand, if you do not want the az.
ticle.
Year: 1873

They say-ah we'll. suppose they do;


But can they prove the story true?
Suspicion may arise from naught
But malice envy, want of thought.
Why count yourself among the they"
Who whisper what they dare not say?
They say-but why tho tale rehearse,
And help to make tho matter worse?
No good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrue2
And is it not noble plan
TO speak of all the best you can?
They say-oh pause and look within,
See how thy heart inclines to sin;
Watch, lest in dark temptations hour,
Thou. too, shouldst sink beneath its pOwerP
Pity the frail, weep DER their All,
But speak of good, or not ut all.
Year: 1873

y Some enthusiastic person offered
a prize to the scholars in each public
school of Boston for the best essay on
the prevention Of cruelty to animals.
The awards have just been made, and
Boston is properly excited over the fact
that all the prizes, with one exception,
we're taken by girls, although the boys
are on an average older. -.
Year: 1873

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. On We'd
nesday morning a messenger came to
town for DR.. Montague, bringing the
news that Nicholas Holman had fallen into
a mining claim and was seriously injured.
The circumstances connected with the
accident are these: Mr.. Holman lives
about mile from town, the claim in
which he is interested lying short dis
tance this side of his cabin. During the
past season the company had worked
away part of the old road and made q
new one in its stead, as is customary in
mining sections. Last Tuesday night
was very dark and a little rain falling.
AT about half past nine in the evening
Mr.. Holman started for home; at nine
O'Clock next morning he was found in his
claim considerably injured. Since the
accident Mr.. Holman has been "out of his
head" most of the time and unable to
give an ineligible account of the acci-
dent. 1t is more than probable, however,
that in the darkness which prevailed
Tuesday night he took the old road and
unwittingly stepped over the bank, falling
a distance of fifteen feet perpendicular
into the claim and landing on rock pile.
Some meat which he had with him was
found there and seems to confirm this
fact. The shock resulting from this fall
must have rendered him insensibe for a
time, but at some time during the night
he recovered enough to crawl about, and
in doing 50 rolled into a bedrock ditch,
whore he lay until found next morning.
DIR. Montague informs us that the re-
suits of the accident are broken thigh
bono, q rupture, severe contusions about
the head and numerous bruises about the
body. Mr.. Holman is nearly fifty years
OF age and the worst results were feared
from the exposure to which he had been
subjected, having lain on the cold, damp
bedrock, with light rain falling, for
about eleven hours. 1t was only through
unremitting efforts that a reaction was
established but we are pleased to note
that the Doctor thinks his patient will
get along all right. AT first indications
seemed to point to severe internal injuries
but later developments show that no dan
ger exists in that direction.
Year: 1873

WILL CELEBRATE.-We are pleased
to know that there is patriotism enough
in at least one section of our county to
get up celebration on the Fourth Of
July. The people of Hay Fork Valley
will have Grand Picnic on that day, an
Grafton by Rev. Willis Alden, Reading
of Declaration Of Independence by Mr..
w. E. Lovett, and a Social Dance in the
evening. There is nothing of consequence
going to take place in any other section
of the county on the Fourth, and even if
there was we know OF no more pleasant
trip than a visit to Hay Fork Valley.
Everything possible will be done for
the comfort and entertainment of all who
attend the celebration there and its result
can be nothing short Of splendid time.
Everybody who can should attend, for it
will certainly be an enjoyable affair.
Year: 1873

A WORD TO THE REPUBLICAN CoUN-
TY CoMMITTEE.-Elsewhere in our col
umns will be found a call upon the Re
publican County Committee to assemble.
We presume the principal business before
it will be the appointing the time and
manner of holding primaries in the differ
ent precincts and in this connection we
would suggest that no harsh, repelling test
be adopted. All who are really in sym
pathy with the Republican party and in
tend to support its nominees in the com
ing campaign should be invited to par
ticipate in the primaries and all others
excluded.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER FIRE.-Doctor Croucher,
confirmed old sot, occupied cabin in the
rear of the China Church, where the
Heather Chinese were wont to congregate
and do homage at the feet of the mud idols
with which the place was populated. But
the ''old Doc" will never more sleep off
the effects of his Bacchanalian revels in
that cabin, nor will "the Heather in his
blindness" ever again bow down to
wood and stone" in that church. For
both cabin and church have gone the
way of many better buildings in these
days of disastrous conhagrations. Crouch
er having imbibed freely, as is his custom,
and going home late in a drunken condi-
ton, which, by the way is his usual state,
set his house on fre-undoubtedly by
accident. At least, on last Tuesday night
about lock his cabin was discovered
in flames. The people who were about
at that ho..r and some who who were
aroused from their slumbers rushed at
once to the rescue, but having no fire ap-
paratus nothing could be done toward
extinguishing the flames save throwing
water from buckets, which was of no
avail. The fire communicated with the
China Church, and there being no other
buildings adjoining, these two were all
that were burned. The night was still,
no wind blowing and light rain falling, all
of which served to keep the fire from
spreading to buildings in Chinatown,
which were only short distance away.
Had the high wind Of the past week pre-
vailed Tuesday night we would this week
have chronicled 'another big fire in
Weaverville," for nothing could have
saved the lower end of town. AS it is,
the buildings destroyed, and their con-
tents, were of very little value. Doc.
Croucher mourns the loss of very valu-
able library consisting of vol. Patent
Office Reports. l vol. Ayers Almanac
and one Dime Novel, also an assortment
of broken -stemmed clay pipes and nu-
merous empty whisky bottles, all of
which we believe was fully insured in the
King Alcohol Insurance Co. Fires are
becoming of almost weekly occurrence
and it appears to us that fire apparatus
would be a profitable investment for town
as large as Weavervile and one where
the danger is SO great.
Year: 1873

FINIsHED.-Miners in Weaver Basin
have all ceaned-up for the season, and
the results as far as we have learned are
very satisfactory, the yield being large in
proportion to the ground worked.
Year: 1873

REGISTER REGISTER !-Citizens of
the United States now resident in Triaity
county, and who expect to remain here
until Election Day, are reminded that
their names must appear upon the Great
Register Of the county or they will not be
entitled to vote. Also that the copy
of the Great Register will be placed in
tho hands of the Printer the 1st Of August
and therefore the sooner the matter is at
tended to the better. To obtain a Certif-
icate of Cancellation from another county
it is necessary to write direct to the Coun-
ty Clerk and inclose stamp for return
postage. A clerk has no right to send
such certificate except upon application
being made over the proper signature of
the applicant. AS this is matter of i'm
portance it should not be neglected, and
ought to be attended to without delay.
Year: 1873

USEFUL PRIsoNERs.--U Sheriff
Raner has been making good use of the
two Chinese prisoners now in his charge,
making them clean up things about the
Court House, saw wood, etc. We can
see no reason why a Chinese convict
should not be useful as we'll as ornament
al. There is large "hole in the ground" {"
on the corner opposite the Court House,
which would be improved by filling up,
and it has been suggested that these Chi
nese prisoners might be put to work with
wheel barrows to remove this public nui-
sance, the exercise at the same time hav-
ing very beneficial effect upon their
digestion. The suggestion is an excellent
one and should be acted upon.
Year: 1873

The Nation, a famous Radi-
cal paper, says it is a national
disgrace to have the United
States troops used to sustain a
State Government which a
committee of the United States
Senate has declared to be ut
terly unauthorized and fraudu-
lent.
Year: 1873

1t is understood that the
Government has sent out a
number of detectives in search
of an honest Federal Office
holder, and if found he will be
sent Immediately to Vienna
for exhibition, to prove the fall
sity of the assertion made by
foreigners that there is no such
man iii the United States


San Francisco Leader. .5
Year: 1873

HOP NOT IN TIE BrLL-HoRs Do COMBAT.


A few days ago,a difficulty sprang up between
prominent Democratic County official in Mill
Creek Hundred and the tenant having charge of
his farm A few hops was the cause of the dis
pute, each party claiming these, but the tenant
got possession OF them. This irritated the Off
cial to such a degree as to violently attack the
possessor Of the hops, but with different result
than was anticipated. The tenant, in order to
defend himself. was compelled to administer a
stunning rebuke to the official which sent him to
all fonrs, and quickly ended the hop dispute.
Year: 1873

The day is not far distant when We
shall have better class of district school
houses. We call the attention Of teachers
to the Importance of properly seating
the school rooms. Teachers SHOULD over
see the making and arranging the seats.
A good comfortable desk can be pat in
the school house at small cost. Any
mechanic, with advice of the teacher, can
make a very comfortable seat. We sug'
gest that tho desk be made to accommo,
date two pupils only. In many school
houses a few long seats without backs
are provided. On these the pupils are
crowed together dozen sometimes on
single seat.


Good plain comfortable desks ought tc
be put in all the school houses.
Year: 1873

If your soul be not in tue work, quit
teaching school. If money be your OBJ
ject, quit the school room. If your quail
ications be below the standard. and you
opportunities for self.improycmcut bc cut
off, then quit teaching 1t ought to be
u reproach to any teacher to do imperfec.
work. Some teachers do not try to in


prove themselves. They teach as good Q
school the first year as they ever terch
The school room is no place for such


They are out of their element. There II
no preparation on their part, for they are
satisfied to do just as little as possible


They mag be clever people, but the school
room would be Just as we'll off without
them. Prepare for teaching or elSe quit
Year: 1873

A drunken man sprawling on the
ground the other night, anXiously lnA
quired II "anybody else had been struck
by that earthquake ="


CuTy said he'd rather die In railroad
smash-up than Il steamboat bust-up, for
this reason '"lt you gets on and smash
ed up, dar You is, but If you get blowed
up on the boat, whar is you."


4 boy was caught in the act of stealing
dried berries in front OF a store the other
day, and was locked up in dark closet
by the grocer. The boy commenced beg
ging most pathetically to be released,
and after using all the persuasion his
young Imagination could invent, pro-
posed:


Nov, il you'll let me ont, and send
for my daddy, he'll pay you for the ber-
ries and lick me besides ~


The appeal was too much for the gro
Gerry man to stand out against.


He is man who knows how to di.
for his God and his country; his heart.
his lips, his arms, arc faithful until
death.


The pride of tho heart is the attribute
Of honest men; pride of manners is that
of fools; the pride of birth and rank i,
often the pride Of dupcs.


The friendship of some people is like
our shadow keeping close while we are
walking in the sunshine, descrting US the
moment we enter the shade, a


Our virtues are dearcr to us the more
we have had to suffer for them, 1t Is the
same with our children. All profound
ELECTION admits a sacrifice.


To pardon those absurditics in ourselves
which we cannot suffer in others. is
neither better nor worse than to be more
willing TO be f,ols ourselves than to have
others SO.


True courage is cool and calm. The
bravest of men have the least of brutal
bullying insoledce and in the very time
of danger are found the most serene aud
free.


Every man deems that he has pre-:
ciscly the trials and temptations which
are the hardest of all for him to bear
but they are SO, because they are the
very ones he needs,


In the depths of the sea the waters are
still the heaviest griefis that borne in
silence the deepest love flows through
the eye aud touch; the purest joy is
unspeakable : the most impressive prayer
is silept and the most solemn preachers
at fauneral is the silent one whose lips
are cold.


Bc not astouished when you sec men Of
virtue in disgrace, and dignitics worn BY
those who have no right to them. Open
yourcyc5 consider the innumerable stars
which never lose anything Of thier bright>
ness but the heavens turn. aud now the
moon, now the sun, is eclipsed:
Year: 1873

How well employed that mind must b,
That has no time for sorrow! ..
And well supplied with cash Is he,


Who has no cause to borrow.
And yet how good it is, withai,


To know You have a friend,
Who, IL by chance you've need to call;


Has got the heart to lend.
But he who tolls from morn till night


TO earn his daily bread,
Can seek his couch with pure delight,


And rest his weary head.
Year: 1873

The intense cold is increasing the ice aud hard
ching the gorge In tho snsquohanna at Port De
posiL The thermometer az that town marked %
below zero on Thursday night.


In the Wharton trial, at Annapolis, yesterday,
Attorney General Syestsr closed his argument for
the prosecutions, and the case was given 10 the
Jury At late hour last night the jury were still
Out
Year: 1873


The Awards to be AppeaIed-SPies
against Claimants.


From the Savannah News.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-It has been as
certained on reliable authority that sll the
cotton awards made by the court of claims
last spring, for the South, will be appealed
by the government. The process will be
first to try the court of claims, and If this
court refuses to grant new trial, then the
cases will be appealed 70 the
Supreme Court. Every effort
will be made to defeat the payment OF
the award made by the court of claims, es-
pecialIy to cotton claimants. As an evil
deuce of the earnest efforts to be made in
this direction, it may be stated that tbs
government has sent two men 10 the South,
who will represent themselves as claim
agents, having unusual facilities for
procuring the favorable consideration and
settlement of claims, and who will try to
gather up all the evidence for and against
the claims passed, now pending and TO be
offered for consideration; but the real OBJ
ject of these fellows is to gain the conhdeEce
of claim-holders, so that they may obtain
all the evidence in their possession, which
is to be used by the government in the new
trials to be asked for. These spies of the
government, for they are nothing less, are
armed with list of claimants for cotton
against the government, and will profess to
collect all rejected claims and to collect
even subscribed Confederate cotton. The
people of the entire South should keep a
sharp lookout for these fellows, and abstain
from holding any communication with
them. One thing that has induced the gov
ernment to adopt this system of warfare
against Southern claimants, is that so many
bogus and preposterous claims are sent up
from that section, hedged in with such
plausible evidence that it cost the govern
ment great deal % defeat them, hence the
effort to kill all claims in a body.
Year: 1873

WE are glad to hear that Andrew John-
soa will not be abjectly poor after losing
$4,000 in the Cooke National Bank of
Washington. The talk is that he will re-
cover something from the bank, but the
prospect Is not brilliant. The eight mil
lions of dollars gone up in the Northern Pa
clfc and Second Mortgage bonds will never
return But it seems odd that q man
trained as Andrew johnson was could have
had SO much confidence in bank. he
spent so much time studying the COnstitu-
ton that perhaps be did not have time to
inform himself of the peculiarities of finan-
cierine. Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1873

we have on sale and to lease, we feel confident
of success, and that Is half the battle won.


Our motto is onward and upward with the
watchword, Know Thyself, the which we
study. So we flatter ourselves that
Year: 1873

little above the knee, but without


breaking the bone, the ball then
passed traversely through the neck of


the mare; she, however, sprang up the


oank OF the creek, fell to her knees


ahd stumbled along about q rod be-


Iore sne recovered; during this time


several Indians came running up to


tomanSVk him. He made his escape


aiter having about thirty shots fred


az MIN from very short distance


After riding about four miles he reach
60 LAMBS fort much exhausted with


the loss or blood After getting his


wounds dressed and resting while,
twelve men, determined II possible
70 reach the fort under cover OF the
night. When they got within about
two hundred yards Of it they halted,
The firing at the fort still continued
Ten Of the men thinking the enter
prize too hazardous refused to 90 any
farther and retreated. Rice and two
other men erept silently along to-
wards the fort; but had not proeeed
ed far before they came upon an In
dian In his concealment. He gave
the alarm yell which was instantly
passed round the line with the utmost
regularity. This occasioned the In.
dians to make their last effort 70 take
the place and make their retreat under
cover of the night. Rice and his two
companions returned in safety to
Lambs fort.


About ten o'clock next morning
about sixty men collected at Riee's
fort for the relief Of the place. They
pursued the Indians, who kept in
body for about two miles. The Indi-
ans had then divided into small par.
ties and took over the hills in differ
ent directions so that they could not
be tracked farther. The pursuit was
OF course given up.


A small division OF the Indians had
not proeeeued far after their separa-
ton before they discovered four men
coming from q neighboring fort in
the direction of that which they had
left. The Indians waylaid the path
and shot two Of them dead on the
spot. The others fled. One Of them
being swift Of foot soon made his
escape. The other being q poor run
ner was pursued by an Indian who
after a smart chase came close to him.
The man then wheeled round and
snapped his gun at the Indian. This
he repeated several times. The Indi-
an then threw his tOmahawk at his
head, but missed him, he then caught
hold of the ends of his belt which
was tied behind in a bow knot. In
this again the Indian was dissppoint-
ed. for the knot came loose, so that
be got the belt but not the man, who
wheeled round and tried his gun.
again. It happened to go off and laid
the Indian dead at his feet
Year: 1873

The tragic death of the great editor;
his last will and testament, and the
discordant elements of the Tribune
Association have been prolific theme
for the entire journalistic fraternity;
and yet the public know literally no
thing of the intrigues and decepions
which were practiced by horde of
uncomfortable knaves, who for pc
riod of two years, held before the eyes
of the late lamented the dazzling
prize of the Presidency. Ever since
HORACE GREELEY THwARTED WIN.