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Year: 1870

sa sol Fremsthe Cincinnsti Times3 r.


"Theremustbe Some Mis-


take About my Death


We have been made acquaint-
ed with tho particulars Of the re.
turn to the land Of the living Of
one who was supposed to have
long since passed down into the
I"dark valley. roc Among those re-
ported to have been killed by the
explosion Of the steamer Magno-
liza, lastispring, year ago, was one
John Harvey, a carpenter, who
had previously boarded at the
house of very estimable lady,
or. Seventeenth street. Now, this
lady had a daughter, which isnot
a veryextraordinary circumstance,





and this daughter had accepted
John Harvey as the one With
whom she was to travel through
life, mot a very q strange cir,
cumstance either, for John was
a very handsome fellow. %,


The reception Of the news of
the terrible manner of Johns exit
from the earthsby being,shot up a
great distance into the air and
coming down a piece Of lifeless
flesh, was an awful blow to the
af6anced brides nerves, and for a
time it was doubtful whether she
would survive the great laceration
of her heart. Time, however.
assuages The deepest grief, and the
''out of sight out of mind process
had SO healed the wounds of poor
Adde'S bosom that three months
since she agreed to become the
better half of another fellow, and
the interesting event was fixed
for the fourth of next month.
+ Judge ofothe surprise of the
entire household, a few mornings
since, on seeing the dead John
come stalking into the house Just
the, same as if his absence had
been one Of hours instead of
years. Mother was astonished and
Addie was confounded-the dead
had come to life and no mistake
John, like a true philosopher,
when informed of the situation
that had taken place during his
absence, said, "of course he could
now have no claims, as his long
absence in the White Pine Gold
Mines had, undoubtedly, lost him
all his rights, and he would re-
turn alone to the West, even if
his heart were to. break" aa iaa


This was foo much for poor Adj
die, the old feeling was paramount
and she quietly told John he
could stay, and the other fellow
could 60 out tinto the cold world
and fake his chances, and, like a
faithful lover, be obeyed, ard on
the fourth Of next month the
wedding will take place as before
arranged, only John will be the
groom instead of the other chap.
twas Johns misfortune TO be
a passenger on, the Magnolia at
the time of the accident, but also
his fortune to escape uninjured !;
and falling in with an old friend,
r - a..eff
the two went to White Pine to-
gether, where he had remained
until, as above narrated, he had
returned to claim his long neglec-
ted, long affianced bride. gse
Year: 1870




We understand that the assistant
assessors of the city and county have
nearly completed their lists, and that
Assessor to Collector Buckner. We
are glad 10 know that there is an
increase of the assessments of in
come and special taxes over the pre-
ceding year amounting to from ID to
20 per cent, the increase of 1869 over
1868 being about the same as the in
crease of 1868 over 1867. This is
encouraging, and shows a steady
and healthy growth Of business and
wealth in our city. The amount of
assessments returned for incomes
aud special taxes will amount to
about four hundred thousand dollars
in this city and county.


There are still a large number of
delinquents, both of those who
should make their returns of income,
and those who are required to pay
special tax or license. All of the
latter who are found doing business
after the first of May are subject to
penalty of 80 per cent. on the amount
of their assessment, and are also liza
bic to prosecution under the law.
Those who are delinquent in making
their returns of income are also La
BILE to penalty of so per cent. We
understand that Assessor Needham
has received instructions from Wash
iDgton directing him to see that the
assessment be made thorough and
that the provisions of the law must
be faithfully enforced. We believe
he has the reputation Of following his
instructions pretty closely. Louis
a;iIle Commercial
Year: 1870

HEALTHY 1NDIcATIoNs.-We believe there is
scarcely dwelling or business house in town
unoccupied or unengaged and the demand fol
more residences and business buildings is still
on the increase. To meet this demand, our
neighbor, Moses FREEDOM, with a careful eye to
business, has the lumber on the ground and is
about to erect business house on Nevada st .
a few doors from The HERALD office This is as
good If not the best business portion of the town.
and this building when finished will not go m
occupied.
Year: 1870

PRESENCE OF MINp.-On Wednesday evening
last as Miss Emma Swan was lighting the lamp
at her fathers residence on Broad street, by some
means the oil in the globe of the lamp became
ignited; she attempted to blow it out when it
fumed over and commenced blazing all over the
outside ALSO in the emergency she picked up the
flaming lamp in her hands and apron and car
red it out and set it down on the ground and
then smothered the flames of her apron out III
her hands, and gave the alarm. We We're the
first on the ground after the alarm, and found
the flames shooting up some three feet, the fluid
boiling over and burning all around, and we
pected every moment a burst and Settlement
of the burning oil all over the premises, but we
grabbed a big bed comfort, and Emma brought
pail of water and we smothered it out. This
carrying blazing oil in calico aprons proved saft
enough to Miss Emma with her presence of
mind, but we would not advise ladies generally
to follow her example lest funeral might follow.
Year: 1870

DISTRICT CoURr.-We gave the proceedings Of
this Court up to the time of going to press, but
since then the case of Adelia Hill Weiser,
tried by Jury has been concluded and verdict
returned for plaintiff of $500 damages and stay
of proceedings for twenty days allowed On
Monday last the Court adjourned for the term.
Year: 1870

WHEELER & WILsoN.-The advertisement Of
this Justly celebrated sewing machine will be
found under its appropriate head in our adver-
tsing columns to-day. We have one of these
family could not be very easily persuaded that it
has its equal in the world. We commend the
careful perusal of the advertisement to our read
ers, and especially to the lady portion of them
who are thinking how nice it would be to have a
splendid sewing machine.
Year: 1870

CAMP MEETING.-A camp meeting commenced
yesterday in a grove one mile from Wheatland,
on the border of this county, and will we under
stand, continue ever two Sundays. Excur-
sion trains will be run on the Central Cal
iforna Railroad to the Camp Ground, to-mor-
row. Sunday from Sacramento and Marysville
and intermediate points, at 81 80 on the Sacra-
mento end of the road, and one dollar on the
Marysvlle end the round trip, but no connec-
tons are made with this, the Central Pacific
Railroad by these trains. We are not decided
as to the greater good or evil of this kind OF
meeting, especially where the cities can be emp
tied out on the camp ground at cheap rates by
excursion trains. The people of the Lord will
be outnumbered by the people of the devil.
Year: 1870

FRE.-About IL O'Clock on Wednesday last
the roof of the residence of Henry Fellows Dis
trlct Attorney, on Sacramento street, was dis
covered on fire, and before the flames could be
stayed considerable of the roofngwas destroyed
But for the promptness of our citizens in rush
ing to the rescue the entire building must have
been destroyed. Many believed the building
could not be saved and all of the furniture was
already removed before the fire could be sup
pressed. We learn there was no insurance on
the building or furniture.
Year: 1870

TmY have in Minnesota what they call
an "Anti. Horse Thief Association" No
horse thieves have reformed and joined 1t.
All they had in tho ueighborhood were
cut down too late to take any interest In
Year: 1870

A Pause i'm tho Wii;ri Of Traffic to Think of


Old Father Time.


After the usual session Of the Produce Exchange
yesterday Colonel Isaac II. Reed addressed Mr.. N. II
Hubbard the Oldest member Of the Exchange, az
follows:-


Mr.. HUBBARD-SIE-In contemplating your life-
long association With the produce business OF this
city, the return OF the anniversary or your birthday
extending into so unusually long period of life,
eiehty-fve years. as am informed, mas been deemed
by the Trustees OF the Produce Exchange Com
pany fitting occasion TO tender 10 you
as on evidence OF the high estimation in
which you are regarded, the freedom OF the
Exchange; and to myself, as one OF the members,
the pleasing duty has been assigned OF conveying to
you the resolutions of the Board OF Trustees to that
effect and which now have the honor to present to
you. You nave been known long and intimately by
very many OF us, and all can say that during the
many long years that you have been engaged in
your special vocation your transactions have been
marked by all that Is noble anu upright; none can
say aught against you. You have done good to
many, evil to none; an example most worthy Of en-
ulating. Nay you yet hive 10 enjoy many happy
years. and Gods blessing attend you always.
Year: 1870

Mutual vs. Eckford-A Tie Game and n


Draw.


very lazy game was played yesterday at the
Union grounds between the Mutual and Eckford
Clubs. There was little no life IN the play until
the very Close and even then the excitement was
not what the would indicate. That the Mutuals
did pull up steep hill and reached the top at the
same time that the Eckfords did, Notwithstanding
the latter's lead is credable, and the more so since
the pull was most unexpected. At the close Of the
ninth inning proposition TO draw the game and
play 1t over on Monday next was accepted and time
was called, the procedure astonishing the few spec.
tators present. The full score OF outs, ms, first
pase on hits, total OF same, hands each player re-
tired and times assistance was rendered fo!lows:-
Year: 1870

WASHINGTON, Oct. 49, Postmas-
ter General Cresswell made a speech
in Baltimore last night In which he
said that the President intended to
carry out the legislation of Congress
regarding the elections to the very
letter, and, If need be, to call out the
regular army and the militia of the
States for that purpose. He said he
should warn the people of Baltimore
that In November they would have
a properly conducted election, and
that Governors wann, who Is running
for Congress in the Thirty-eighth dis
trict, would probably feel the effect of
1t for the first time.


The President Is represented by
Others as saying that he will station
a gunboat at the foot of every street
in New York city II 1t be necessary
TO enforce the Congressional election
law there Oh the 18th inst.
Year: 1870

shadow 80 much as fell across their


thresholds. Let affairs progress in their


present direction, and it will be worth
"A resoute and courageous bargain hun
ter's while to run all risks and come
over. "Therc is no money the traders
say, 1--WE have good reason for wishing
to reduce our stock You shall have
this picture or that gem at half at half
do say? at your own price. What think
you ofths as season for Travellers one
had better shut up and go to the from
tier Then come bitter imprecations
upon the light.heartedness' with
which this paralyzing war was entered
npon, and dismal stories Of the impossi
bi!ity of a commercial rebound for many
a long month to come. This is prosaic
side of the national calamity, but Is very
real and very apparent. People have
else to think of besides shop
ping, and ii IS moreover held to be rath
er against you to be possessed Of the
wherewithal for purchases.
Year: 1870

Mark Twain publishes in the Buffalo
Express his first map. His explanation
which might be adopted by other map
makers is better than the map. Here
it is:


10 the Rcadcr: The above map ex-
plains itself


The idea of this map Is not original
with me, but is borrowed from the 7rib-
pnc and the other metropolitan jour
nails.


| claim no other merit for this produc-
ton (if / may so call it,, than that it is
accurate. The main b!emish Of the city
maps, of which it is an imitation, is,
that in them more attention is paid to
artistic picturesqueness than geographic
reliability.


BY an important overnight, l have
engraved the map so that it reads wrong
end first, except to left-handed people.
| forgot that in order to make 1t
read right in print it should be drawn
and engraved upside down. However,
let the student who desires to contem-
plate the map stand on his head or hold
it before !ooking-glass. That will
bring it right.


The reader will comprehend at "A
glance that the piece of river with the
high bridge over it got left out to one
I side by reason Of a slip Of the engraving
! tool, which rendered it necessary to
/ change the entire course of the river
Rhine or else spoil the map. After
Having spent two days in digging and
gouging at the map, | would have
/ changed the course of the Atlantic ocean
before | would have lost SO much
work.


never had SO much trouble with any
thing in my life as did with this map
had heaps of little Notifications scat
tered all around Paris, at first, but every
now and then my instruments would
slip and fetch away whole miles of bat
teries and leave the vicinity as clear a:
if the Prussians had been there.


The reader will find it well TO fram.
this map for reference, SO that it may
aid in extending popular lnte!Iigenc,
and disputing the wide spread ignorance
of the day. MARX TWAIN.
Year: 1870

Dubuque has a precious student Of as
tronony, who under examination gave
the following astonishing answer to the
question, what is the milky way -
The milky way is a collection of white
clouds in the sky, called the trade wind
or the aurora borealis."
Year: 1870

A STORY FOR WINEs.--A wife once
retired for the night, worn out and
petulent, because OF her many cares,
and her husbands absence, WHEN she
thought he might have been at her sile.
After a time he came home sat down
to his desk. and worked long and hard
at his accounts, while she lay looking
out at him, and feeling angry that he
seemed wholly unmindful other. When
he had laid away slate and books she
saw him unlock drawer, and take from
it picture, which he fingered lovingly
over, tenderly kissed, aud then replaced.
Her woman's curiosity was reused, aud
she determined to know more of the
matter So while he was getting ready
for bed, she feigned sleep. lie soonslept
soundly, and then she cr"pt from her
place, like thief in the night, took the
| keys unlocked the desk and the drawer,
and found that her husband
had been kissing II picture Of
herself, which was taken when they


were first married. Then she was cha
grined and mortified because she had
not been more loving wife, and went
back to bed with new resolutions form
cd In the morning she put on \
wrapper that was clean and very becom-
ing, collar and bow, and carefully
brushed her hair. When the husband
came in to break fast he looked at her
caught her in his arms aud kissed her.
Then he ask ed the children if the little
mother didn't look pretty. She was
wise enough to not to forget the lesson.
Year: 1870

SAD MlsrAkE.-A young lady living
in one of our suburban cities happend,
one day, in passing u barber shop, to
see her intended husband sitting with
closed eyes. and IA man tanning him.
Thinking he must have been taken
suddenly i'll, she rushed in to his assist
ance. She was chagrined to find he
was only having his mustache dyed.
But she got some of the dye-stuff Oh her
cheek, which So disgusted her that shs
broke Off the engagement.
Year: 1870

1t is reported that two young people in
Rockland, H., recently made q star. in llfe
though not an easy one, This was how
they did it; While courting, they walked
on: together, arm in arm, and fell through
hole 10 the sidewalk, breaking q leg each
The Jury gave verdict against the town
corporation for twelve thousand dollars
damage. On this sum they were able to
get married and start in life in good style.
Year: 1870

Nothing could more happily illustrate the
contradictory worthlessness OF the many
worthless reports which the war excitement
sends to US than the fact that while the
Pope is stated by one cable despatch to be
"warmly in favor of Prussia" the Pope' $
chief organ IN the press of the Continent is
as solemnly declared to have pronounced
the war to be ian Intervention of Con to
stop the progress ''of Protestantism"l Wba,
Year: 1870

was troubled for a day or two TO tell
which was me and which was the bunch
Had the bunch shampoOed and wore
my hat on it one entire day. Didn't
discover my mistake until the bunch
went down, and lost my hat or


I realize the advantages Of praeticinR
with weights. find that I can endure
''stage waits, at the theatsrbetter than
I used to do, and can WRit at the table
with an easy grace to which I hsd pre-
viously been a stranger. I have. i'm
parted the weight practice. to several Of
my most importunate creditors, Undue.
ing them to wait until fall, thereby taxi
ing heavy weight of my mind. fs.r


Swinging clubs, climbing ladders,
lifting weights, and pracdcing with
dumb bells have developed and
strengthened the muscles Of nv arms
to a wonderful degree. can bring ny
self up with one hand now. Before I
went to the gymnasium Icouldnit bring
up a child-nOt in the way be should
60. 4 n. $50


I have praeticed holding out weights
until can hold out almost anything.
How many temperance men we would
have If they could only hold out. If
they would join gymnasium when
they join q temperance society, they
would be all right.


I began with holding out inducements,
then I held out against RFbribs for my
political influence, and finally Was sS-
tonished to find myself able to hold out
through a concert by the Hutchinson
Family, a species Of endurance I would
not have been capable of few weeks
ago. If can't hold out I can't hold
anything. lam going to try to hold out
faithfully. A
Year: 1870

LOafng is at very low stage Of euI-
tivatisn and low standard OF estimation
in this country. The art Of it has not
been encouraged as it ought to be.


The American character is too ner-
vOus and jerky to loafe well without at.
tentive study and continuous practice;
and therefore our people, if they hope
ever to attain to any eminence in the
art, must take steps to foster and edu-
cate what little natural talent for It we
have among US.


To loafe Worthily and with the high.
est success, the mind must be abandon
ed to the pursuit, and freed from al
disturbing cares, all adverse Influences
The man must give himself up to it
with his whole soul. He must not wor-
ry about the past nor bother his brain
about the future. If he even permits
himselfto indulge in any solicitude IS to
where he is to procure provisions for his
supper, or to feel any curiosity on the
score of lodging, he by so much unfts
himselffo the higher walks Of his cali
ing.


That sublime talent for repose which
is indispensable to success as a ,Rrsa6
loafer is never affected by these petty
concerns Of life. The OOrn losfer Is
above such things. He Is inspired with
the single purpose Of setting an exam
pie to his busy, bustling, 6dgety fellow
men an example Of serene and philo.
sOphical Indifference to their hurry sour.
ry, pellmeH scramble after the ten
thousand nOthings of the world. --


Thus is the loafeT useful. He keeps
US in mind Of the vanity of much Of
this scuf1e and struggle which absorb
our so fierce energies. He is q perpetu-
al admonisher Of how much happiness
we lose BY disquieting ourselves. about
what we shall drink, and Where-with
we shall be clothed.


So the genuine loafer, with q natural
gift of laziness and a high culture, be-
comes a blessing to his species. Hence
he deserves to be perpetuated at the
public expenses indeed, he generally
is,-and to be. recognized and enc0uF.
aged by appropriate legistati9n.-Hasi1
T0rchhght.
Year: 1870

For several days, says the Mobile Reg


ister, there have been mysterious and
vague TumOTs of a most remarkable
meteorological phenomenon out at the
Catholic graveyard on Stone street,
about the ThTee-mile Creek. It is as
serted by those who say they have seen
it that for the last five days a gentle
shower has fallen continuously on the
lot of the LemOine family, in which are
buried Mr.. Victor LemOine and many
others of his family. With a view of
getting at the fatcts of this most extra
ordinary affair, we had last night an in
teFview with Mr.. Louis B. LemOine,
employed at Asa Hollis, a son Of the de-
ceased Victor Lemoine, who died in I6-
81, who related the following startling
particulars:


Having heard that it was reported
that it, has been raining for several days
on the iaclOsed ground which forms my
family bITying-grOund, in the Catholic


burying-gTOund on stone street, above
the Three Mile creek, I drove out there
last evening to satisfy myself, and to
my intense astOnishment I saw that q
column of rain was coming down with
out ceasing, which, although hardly
powerful enough to lay the dust, was
ClAUAlAlA W WEI Tue llblllH OF any. AEDlGle.
and at times it rained quite hard. The
volume of rain fell inside Of the inclos-
uFe and no where else, as the weather
was, and has been, bright and clear all
the time during the five days the
rain has been falling on these graves.


There are thirteen Of my family bur-
led in the lot Of ground upon which it
has been raining. My mother, brother,
and sisters visited the spot Yesterday
and day before to satisfy themselves
about the truth of this matter, and de-
clare that they too saw this wonderful
phenomenon It Is also been seen by
over two hundred persons. I took a
friend with me when I visited the spot,
who also saw the rain falling asdescrlb-
ed. Mr.. John ROsset, the keeper of
the cemetTY, told me that the rain had
commenced falling in heavy drops five
days ago. I am willing to take nv
oath as to the truth of this statement.


So incredible did this curious affair
seem that those who saw it several days
ago, Tefrained from stating or asserting
what they had seen, for fear that not
only their veracity, but their sanity
would be questioned, and it was not un-
til number of gentlemen of the first
respeetability had seen and reported
Gu6 result VI LloiE p6ESOual OBSERVATIONS,
before any credenee was attached to
the truth of the matter. Take it alto
gether, it is certainly the most astound-
ing and miraculous atmospheric Won
der that has ever been witnessed in this
part Of the world, and will doubtless af-
ford food for thought, research and OBJ
not only among scientific
men, but among all classes. There are
so many to vouch for the truth of Mr..
Lemoine's statement, and his character |
for veraeity is such, that there can no
longer be any doubt of the fact that it
has been raining for the past five DAYS
on the graves of this kindred.