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Year: 1872

A celebrated writer says ''All hor-
ses must not be fed in the same proper
tions, without regard 10 their ages, their
constitutions, and their work, because
the improperly Of such practice is self
evident. Yet it is constantly done, and
Is the basis Of diseases Of every kind.


Never use bad hay on account Of it
cheapness, because there Is not proper
noarhhment i'm it.


Damaged corn is exceedingly injurious,
becaIse it brings on inflammation Of the
bowels and skin diseases.


Chaf Is better for old horses than hay,
because they can chew and digest II
better


Mix chaf with corn or beans, and do
not give the latter alone, because it will
make the horse chew his food more and
digest it better.


Hay or grass alone will not support a
horse under hard work, because there is
not sufficient nutritive body in either.


When a horse is not worked hard is
food should be chiefly hay, because oats
supply more nourishment and fesh-mak-
ing materials than any other kind of food +;
hay not so much.
Year: 1872

A boy worked hard all day for a guar
ter; he bought apples and took them to
town and sold them for a dollar. With
the dollar he bought a sheep. The sheep
brought him lamb, and the fleece
brought him another dollar lie bought
another sheep. The next year he had
two sheep two lambs and yearIing
sheep. The three heeces he sold for
three dollars, and bought three more
sheep. He now had cIght with fair
prospect, He worked where he found
opportunity, for hay, corn and oats, and
pasturing for his sheep. He took the
choicest care Of them and soon had a
flock. Their wool enabled him to buy
pasture for them, and by the time he
was twenty-one he had fair start in life,
and all from the quarter he had earned in
one day.
Year: 1872

Prof james H. johnson, of Scotland
says that half the saline matter Of the
blood (75 per cent? consists of common
salt, and as this is partly dissolved every
day through the skin and kidneys, the
necessity of continued supplies of it to
the healthy body is sufficiently obvious.
The bile also contains soda Zone of the
ingredients of salt) as special and in
dispensable constituent, and so do all the
cartilages of the body Stint the supply
of salt, and neither will the bile be able
properly to assist digestion nor the carti-
lagos to be built up again as fast as they
naturally waste. 1t Is better to place
salt where the stock can have free access
to it than to give it occasionally in small
quantities. They will help themselves
to what they need, if allowed to do so at
pleasure, otherwise when they become
salt hungry, they may take more than is
wholesome.
Year: 1872

Before the assembling Of the Balti-
more Convention, we said that the OPP
p2Scrs of Radicalism in Mississippi were
followers and not leaders in the grand
movement for the rescue of Constitution
al liberty from the grasp Of despotism
through the election of the Cincinnati
nominees. The proceedings of the Con
vention have fully verified the statement.
The enthusiasm of Mississippi, great as
1t vas scarcely kept her abreast with the
movement in other States
Year: 1872

Whatever these papers may contain rela-
tive 10 Greciey's peace negotiation, and
which have not yet been published, will
now be doled out through the various
Grant organs OF the country. and wh4fever
effect they may also have in intimidating
prominent men in the South will also be
fully tried.


(The foregoing is the record of what is
simply Il corrupt speculation in which
members of the Administration are part
ners. We doubt the entire story of the
recovery of the archives; and Of the au-
thenticity of the documents referred to.
As to their use either for the purpose Of
protecting the federal treasury from
fraudulent claims or as Radical cam
paign document-the whole thing is alb
surd CANNON. 1t is nothing more nor
less than a dishonest speculative opera
tion.-EDIToRs CLARION.)
Year: 1872

These archives, or department. files. have
somewhat singular history. When the
military operations in front of Richmond
assumed that threatening character which
finally ended in the evacuation of the city,
these archives were Sent To North Carolina
for safe keeping There they fell into the
hands Of some irresponsible parties, who,
amidst the CONSERVATION attending the
downfall of the Confederacy, escaped with
them to Canada, where they have been kept
and used for various speculative purposes
until the present time.
Year: 1872

CHLoRoFoRM.--The Grass Valley Union
says: Tuesday fine horse over to Henry
Scadden's stable had au operation perform
ed upon him. He had deformed upper
moIar tooth which kept the mouth very
sore, and which caught grain and PARTICLES
of hay These were constantly irritating
the mouth The ugly tooth bad to come
out The horse was thrown and the
chloroform was administered DR. Sterl.
ing pulled that left upper. front molar with
pair of gasftter's tongs. The horse did
not suffer FROM the operation owing to the
chloroform. The horse did not know of the
moment the tooth came out.
Year: 1872

TEAM LOST On Tuesday afternoon
Joseph and William We'll were returning
from Millville in a two horse buggy, and
reached Churn Creek at about four o'clock.
The water extended out considerable dis
tance IRON the banks and the current was
running swift in the main channel of the
stream. But the occupants Of the buggy
apprehended no danger, and started to
drive across. The water for some yards on
the side of the creek on which they drove
in was shallow, but when apparently half
across, the horses suddenly plunged into
swimming water and the current instantly
swept taem and the buggy down stream.
A few yards below the ford the floating
buggy caught on small ash tree by means
of one of the wheels passing so that the
tree became wedged in between the wheel
and bed, and so the whole rig was anchoIe ed
he buggy seat kept out of water and the
two gentlemen were safe Ell ugh but could
not get ashore at the time. The horses
tried to swim but when the buggy became
fast on the tree, they could not get away,
and consequently drowned then and there
But render the situation of the two gentle
men still more unpleasant, darkness came
on, the creek continued to rise for some
time, and the air was very chilly All
night long, or until four o clock in the morn
ing, they remained in the buggy, but bv
that time the water had receeded consider
able and they waded out through water
four feet deep, and walked to Loomis
Ranch, having narrowly escaped death aud
had a rough time generally. What made
the situation worse for Joseph, was the fact
that he was only married last Sunday and
of course naturally felt anxious to get home.


The buggy and team were hired out Of
Craddock's stable The buggy and har-
ness we're recovered.
Year: 1872

Took PoisoN.-On Tuesday evening a
German by the name of Struck came in
town from Buckeye aud after indulging in
considerable ''sampling" of liquors retired
to Greene's hotel to sleep. He was up
early on the following morning, and went
to the Drug Store and purchased some
strychnine. He then entered Kuox's
Saloon aud soon said he had taken poison
The poison soou took effect, and it was only
by timely and dilligent application Of
remedies by Doctors Shurtleff, Pelham
and Welleudorff that his life was saved
The ma is evidently deranged.
Year: 1872

A local newspaper is travelling agent
taking its weekly rounds to the families of
all its customers No matter whether
times are good or dull, no matter whether
trade is brisk or otherwise, no business man
can afford to take down his sign. nor with
draw the pleasing influence of weekly chat
with his customers through the newspapers
Fer a business man to stop advertising
would be equivalent to saying 81 have
stopped business, and ask no favors of the
people. ."-Cleveland Gazette.
Year: 1872

The citizens of Harper's neighborhood
on the Tule river, being greatly annoyed
by superabundance of hare, turned out
en- masse and slew them by the score
They were destroyed at the rate of seventy
or eighty per day until reasonable scarcity
nrevailed
Year: 1872

The building of the railroad through the
county will cause several small villages to
spring up slong the line, probably one at
Cottonwood, one at Clear Creek, one at
Canon Bottom, and one at the mouth OF
Middle Greek, or whatever point may
be selected for the erection of the depot
for Shasta and Trinity freight. We do not
apprehend that any of these villages will
injure Shasta in the least, and they will
certainly not possess any particular advan-
tages or resources by virtue of which they
can attain prominence IS towns. The trade
and freight of the Millville country never
came to Shasta, and it will never come to
Canon Bottom. and village at the latter
place has no immediate surrounding re-
sources out Of which to make town of
any note, and never can have. The freight
for the Miilville country will naturally 90
TO Cottonwood or some point near Wells
Ferry, as the distance and natural roads
favor that direction. As the distance be-
tween Millville and Canon Bottom, and
Millville and Cottonwood or Wells Ferry


is near about the same, it naturally follows


that the freight for the Cow Greek country
will not be sent as high up the road as
Canon Bottom. There is no sense whatever
in supposing that the Milvile people will
ever come as high up as Canon Bottom for
their freight, when they can reach the
railroad at other points as near, and over


far better roads, beside saving the addition
al cost Of freight carriage from Cottonwood
or Wells Ferry to ',anon Bottom. All
the Millville or Fl Crook freight that will
ever be sent as high up as Canon Bottom
can be loaded on very small pack-train.


At the depot at the mouth of Middle
Greek, there will naturally grow up, in
time, small village, but there is no reason
to suppose that it will absorb Shasta, for
tuCiO "ouiu oc uo TtdSOuS UT luuuct meutS
for moving down there on the rocks and
descrting this place with its public build
ings, fine brick HOUSES, comfortable resi-
dences, cultivated gardens, and all the
appurtenances and surroundings of first.
class town. In order to do business it is
not necessary to be located Immediately on
the railroad, but merely near enough to
secure the benefits oi transportation, and
Shasta will be plenty near enough to the
road for that. OF course all the freight
for Whiskytown, French Gulch, and Trim
! ity county, will be ordered to the depot for
Sha tn, as the nearest railroad point from
which freight teams can be loaded, and this
will be the natu;al headquarters for all


that freigbt-t teaming The business men
of Trinity are certainly not going to have
their freight sent to the Canon Bottom


when they can get it laid down by rail nine
miles nearer. SO, we think it is reasonable
to conclude that the building of the rail
road will not injure, but improve the bus


mess of shasta, and that the unfavorable
predictions of the few smart and prophetic
individuals, who wear number ten boots
and number six hats, will come to naught


rs they are not based on facts and reason
Year: 1872

"ARE not pickles good? 1 always
thought they were healthful. What about
salads? Are they not good -


These questions are frequently pro-
pounded to US, and our uniform answer
is, that pickles, salads, greens, and all the
trash which requires vinegar to make it
palatable, are eaten solely for the vine
gar; and as vinegar is product of decay,
and an acid entirely too strong to be
wholesome, it should be avoided alto
gether People who most crave vinegar
are those who eat sugar and fatty matter
in excess. Fruit acids are supplied by
nature in abundance, and are well adapt
ed to furnish the system with all the acid
it requires, and that of the right kind.
Vinegar will-eat up bones; it will in
jure the teeth and the coats of the stom-
ach it will injure the blood; it will
break down the health. A fat, young
lady who was told that the use of vinegar
would reduce her flesh, entered upon the
improvement with such earnestneSs that
she took half a teacupful several times a
day. Her fine health soon became great
ly damaged she not only lost her surplus
fat. but her natural flesh as well, and was
reduced to a skinny skeleton. From be-
ing ten pounds heavier than she thought
was becoming, she became thirty pounds



egar, but the lifelong repentance of her
folly did not bring back the requisite
plumpness of form.


"But good cider vinegar being the
juice of fruit ought not to be injurious"
says one. The juice of fruit, when it is
natural, just taken from the fruit, willnot
injure person, unless too much is taken.
Most of US know the effect of drinking
sweet cider in excess. Nature takes care
to keep no more of it in the system than
is needful- But vinegar has undergone
the fermenting process, which is the first
stage of decay, and has now become rela-
lively poisonous All it needs now is
concentrating, like the poisonous acids, to
make it eat the living tissues. Our firm
conviction is, that if on every table there
could be raw or cooked fruit of various
kinds in ample abundance at every meal,
ninety-nine men in a hundred, in years
time, would learn to take enough of the
fruit to supply the system with its requi-
site acids, so that neither pickle nor salad,
with vinegar, or vinegar in any form,
would be desired. Let vinegar be re-
pudiated, and fruit be established in its
place, and the dentist and doctor will
have far less to do, and the undertaker's
work will be much longer postponed
Pkrenologicdl Journal.
Year: 1872

A SAN Francisco gentleman recently
visited dentist for the purpose of Will
ing away halfhour or so, and, while
there, a lady came in with little girl,
wanting tooth or two drawn for the lat
ter. The child cried when placed in tho
chair, and declared that she would not
have her teeth attended to unless the
strange gentleman would have a tooth
drawn first, and, to please the little pa
tient, he took her place with wink at
the doctor. The latter took two or three
instruments, while the gentleman reclined
in the chair smilingly gazing at the ceiling
for the assurance of the watching child,
and, after softly poking at two or three
teeth, to the horror of the obliging gen.
tleman he commenced boring into his
Jaw where a tooth had once been extract
ed, and, before he could offer a protest, a
tremendous wrench brought out large
root, which the doctor held up to the
child with a diabolical grin on his face.
The gentleman rolled off the chair, and,
with an expression of unutterable pain in
his countenance, gazed moment re-
proachfully at his friend and left the
office. The little one did not seem to be
greatly encouraged by the exhibition.
Year: 1872

and supplies in large quantities, SO that they
could secure a fair price for their product and
yet dispense with those additions which the
cupidity of dealers suggests and the apathy OF
consumers permits A vigorous movement to
accomplish this change is now making. In the
names of thousands of puny babies We cheer
the attempt In behalf of all who look with
doubt at the pale, turbid fluid as they pour it
with distrust and apprehension into their cof-
fee cups, we applaud the disposition OF the
farmers to put themselves in direct connection
with those who consume their product. Too
many cooks spoil the broth. Croton is better
used in cleansing our streets than in diluting
our milk. If our good neighbors in Goshen
will give us the pure extract we had far rather
pay them the extreme price than that fve-
sixths of our milk bills should go to those who
water and distribute it.
Year: 1872

Our street cars are entirely inadequate
for the work they undertake They must be
the main reliance for conveying the vast
stream of local travel from point to point in
our city and into the suburbs On all holidays
theyare greatly overtasked. Take, for instance,
last Sunday. At certain hours the cars on all
the lines were crowded as full as they could be
packed-so full that only by almost cruel beat
ing and urging could the jaded horses start
their loads. If the companies put at work all
spare stock on these occasions they still lack
the requisite power TO move the concourse Of
those who demand accommodation. Evi-
IDENTIFY it would not pay to keep large numbers
of extra horses for use at such times. Yet the
lack Of power should be met. Why can We
not try a remedy for this defect,
which has proved success in
New Orleans There cars are run
nine miles with ample power by a boiler Of
water heated at the station house. No fire is
used in connection with the car, nor is there
any noise or any escape Of steam. Little
room is occupied by the engine and one man
is able to act as driver and conductor, stop
ping the car by the brake and starting without
any difficulty. At the station the water is re-
heated by connecting it with furnace, and
the car is ready to make another trip. BY this
method there would be no killing of valuable
stock from overwork, and only lack Of lber-
ality in the companies would defeat abundant
provision for all who might wish to ride.
Even if it should prove that this plan would
fail in the severest of our winter weather by
the too rapid cooling Of the water, we could at


least use it during such seasons as the present,


and avoid the hardships which we see imposed


upon the poor horses, who lack speech to


plead their cause against too exacting man.
Year: 1872

Our milk is bad 1t is not alone poor we
could stand that 1t is poison. Adults can
let it alone, but babes must live on it, and
hundreds of them die by it. Not alone do the
evils of the milk supply threaten the city popu-
lation; they oppress the producers of the
nourishing au:d-the farmers in Putnam,
Columbia, Orange and Westchester counties,
in Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut


These rustic purveyors Of lacteal nourshment,


with their do,iie kline, furnish US daily three
hundred and twenty thousand quarts of the


pure fluid, which is estimated to grow, before it
reaches the consumers, By the addition of from
twenty-five to City per ceht of water, and often
to absorb deleterious drugs and abominable
adulterations, destructive to digestion and
threatening slaughter Of the innocents it
should nourish. We pay from ten to twelve
cents a quart for this so-called milk. For the
pure original article the farmers receive two
cents quart; the margin and the advantage
of the increased bulk fatten small army
of dealers and middemen far faster than
would diet of their commodity. Farmers


like money, ana tne ulllk farmers conceive
that they have but q poor show for their share
under this arrangement. No matter how
short the crop, the dealer is not likely to run
short OF the demands of his customers while
the Croton maintains its flow, but the farmer
must bear the loss when drought shrivels his
pasturage. These considerations have nat
urally suggested to the producers the plan of a
stock company, whereby they may themselves
conduct the business of serving customers in
the city, and allow the present dealers
monopoly of the Croton and chalk combina-
ton. Six hundred and twenty-five one-horse
wagons and three hundred two-horse trucks are
now employed in the trade. To run these
will require capital of three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, which number of the
leading producers propose to raise by sub
scriptions of farmers, all who hold stock being
entitled to furnish milk for distribution at a
stipulated price, and the profit to be
divided according to the quantity con-
tributcd by each. A large saving in the
expense of conducting the trade would be
effected by the association in buying feed
Year: 1872

Transfer bill (Scotland), the Contagious Dis
eases Prevention bin. the Master and Servants
Wages bill and the Metropolitan Police Super
annuation bill. These and other bills were
then formally set aside; and it is not unrea-
sonable to take it for granted that many more,
all of them, of course, of great impor-
tance, were added to the unfortunate
list before yesterday at two o'clock.
II is not permitted us to pronounce the session
just ended one of the great sessions of the
British Parliament 1t will not compare with
that of 1867 when Mr. Disraeli, much to the
annoyance of the liberals, carried his Reform
bill. It will not compare with the sessions of
1869. 1870 and 1871, made memorable respec-
lively by Mr. Gladstone's great triumphs-
the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the
reform of the Irish Land laws and the aboli-
ton of purchase in the British army. At the
same time it would be in the last degree unjust
to say that the session has been fruitless one.
No great measure comparable to those we have
just mentioned has been carried But the
Ballot bill has become lava bill which in
principle seriously touches q vital part of the
British constitution; and it is not unfair to
say that if no other bill of any consequence
had been passed this one measure would have
been sufficient to give the session distinc-
ton. This, however, has not been the only
fruit Much good work of various kinds has
been DONE In the absence of positive infor-
nation it is not safe to speak with too much
confidence; but it was confidently expected
that before the prorogation yesterday the
Scottish Education bill, the Mines Regulation
bill, the Licensing bill and the Public Health
bill would all be passed into law. 1t is not to
be doubted that many important measures
have been deferred; and it may be taken for
granted that if Mr. Gladstone is spared he
will have on hand in the next session of Par
Lament sufficient work to tax his energies.
There is universal desire for reform; and
England, Scotland and Ireland are each of
them and equally imperious. Meanwhile we
are not sorry that lords and honorable gentle
men have exchanged the murky atmosphere
of Westminster for the fine fresh air of the
north.
Year: 1872

The immense importance Of protecting our
dwelling houses from the impure and pesti-
lential infusion of sewer gas, upon which the
HERALD has often commented, has recently
stimulated the inventive genius of our mechan-
les to supply remedy. A simple and excel
lent contrivance has been lately made and
patented by gentleman of this city,
for trapping the foul air in the pipes which
open in houses and communicate directly
with the reservoirs of the filthy and disease
laden atmosphere of the great sewers Modern
architecture has studied luxury far more than
sanitary security in the interior arrangements
of our private mansions and hotels. The net
work OF sewer pipes brings the most superb
and elegant residences of the wealthy, by SUBJ
terranean channels into direct atmospheric
connection with the most neglected and deadly
tenements and pesthouses of the city. There
are hundreds Of causes daily at work to set in
motion the air of the sewer and propel it into
the hundred smaller pipes which discharge
their gaseous poison into our halls and
bedrooms, AID thus produce disease
and death. This pneumatic dissemina-
ton of the foul air is accomplished
by the wind blowing into the sewer
openings at the street corners, by the
agency of storm and rain flooding the great
conduits, by the changes in barometric pres
sure, by sudden variations in the temperature
and, indeed, by the ordinary return of day
and night.


1t is a well-known fact that the late illness
of the Prince Of Wales was occasoned by just
this agency, and our Board Of Health have
reported numerous instances in which whole
families have been poisoned, and some fatally,
by inattention to this lurking but fearfully
real danger. Numerous plans have been
suggested for meeting it, and some eminent
sanitarians have gone so far as to pronounce
in favor Of giving up the luxury of water in
our houses. 1t is hardly possible that people
accustomed to this comfort will ever part with
it, and hence the great necessity Of just such an
invention as the one referred to, by which the
peril from the sewer is thoroughly averted.
With an abundance of water to food the pipes
in the walls of our tenements and other dwell
ings, and with this simple and inexpensive
trap, the air breathed by the inmates would
be pure and unexceptionable. II we are to be
invaded by epidemic diseases this fall it is
very desirable that no time should be lost in
applying remedy to the evil pointed out.