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Year: 1873

SAN Francisco June II.


DEAR JoURNAL.-There is one paper
in this State which always comes to me
like letter from home, and that is your
self. know too, that you are much in
quired for by former residents of Wea-
yer and the county, and there is not one
OF them but should subscribe for you and
pay the subscription in advance. Pla-
cerltes and Tuoumneites have their re-
unions here ; the last named hold theirs
to-day, and there are enough Trinitari-
ans in the city to go and do likewise
but il they won't, let them at least take
the Journal. l am no drummer"
but the people who have lived, worked,
suffered (sometimes,) and fought togeth-
er as the people OF Weaverville have,
ought to keep up living memories of the
old times and of each other.
Year: 1873

Efforts to save Charles A. Russell from
the gailows are still pushing vigorously,
and some Of his friends think will prove
successful. The Police have interested
themselves in his behalf, which is some
thing rather extraordinary, The murder
crop this year will fall short of the aver
age. The execution of Devine had a
salutary effect, and juries are not so easi-
ly impressed by the emotional insanity"
plea,
Year: 1873

cd in dragging one boat across, and
took to the water and attempted to
reach the shore some distance below
the vessel We were then drifting
very fast, and the gale was blowing
fresh, with great violence, from the
northeast, and showing very fast, and
drifting. l was driven back on the ice
gain, and compelled to haul my boa
out. Night closed on me, and carried
US to the southwest Ia the morning
we were about thirty miles southwest
of where the ship went into harbor.
A heavy sea was running, which broke
up my foe -piecc, separating US from
six bags of bread and one boat. ] saw
vessel under steam and canvass
rounding the point to the northwest.
Thinking she would ccme to our re-
lief | gave myself no extra anxiety. but
soon We were doomed to diappoiutment
and from that time until the Tigress
rescued US we never got glimps OF the
Polaris."
Year: 1873

Men who isolate themselves from
society and have no near and dear
family ties, cannot understand the
JOY of living. Why, the man who
cares ior nobody, for whom nobody
cares, has nothing to 1.-Two for that
will pay for the keeping of body
and soul together. You must have
a heap of embers to have a glowing
fire. Scatter them apart, and they
will become dim and cold. So, to
have brisk vigorous life, you must
have a group of lives to keep each
warm, TO afford mutual encourage
ment, confidence and support.


If you wish to live the life of a
man, and not Of Il fungus, bo soci-
able, be brotherly, be charitable, bo
sympathetic, and labor earnestly
for the good Of your kind. 1t was
Byron who said that Happiness
was born atwin," and there is just
as much truth as poetry in the idea.
Certainly, the misanthrope is never
a happy man.
Year: 1873

MACHINERY, is now doing the work ofstOkers
in London gas company manuiaciory. Hith-
ertO the retorls wherein gas has been distilled
FROM the coal have been placed horizontally; in
the new method they are placed vertically. The
retorts are iron tubes exposed TO great heat In
each tube an Archihedian screw turns round.
The coal falls in slowly from the top, descends
slowly with the movement Of the screw, gives of
all its gas ON the way, aud the coke falls from
the bottom. The advantage Of this over the
horizontal method is shown by the fact, that for
every ton of coal converted it yields more coke
and two thousand feet more gas.
Year: 1873

will be no mean or unimportant agency in
this work. (Applause.) We are endeavor-
ing to make this a journal in every respect
worthy Of the Order. That we shall occa-
sional!y make errors we know too well,
but we trust our friend will bear with our
errors and point them out to us. We most
earnestly invite friendly criticism. So far,
we have had the most iattering compli-
ments, for which we are grateful Ifthere
is any one present who does not yet take
this paper, let him see to it that he makes
himself happy by subscribing for it before
he leaves. (Applause.)
Year: 1873

The only man who can't be
happy unless his mOther-in law
lives in the same house with
him, isn't a resident of New
York. He lives in jersey City.
He says she's the only woman
who can tackle his wife success
fully. They take up so much
tine jawing each other that he
has a peaceful life.
Year: 1873

Family Grocery,
and will devote all his energy towards
building up First Class Retail Gro
Gerry House, promising to give the
most perfect satisfaction to all who
may favor him with their patronage


He is constantly in receipt of
FRESH GROCERIES, and is selling
them for small profits in order to keep
up with the hard times.


Doing business upun


STRICT CASH BASIS,
his goods will at all times be sold
at the very lowest prices, and satisfac-
tion guaranteed.


A liberal share of the public patron
age solicited.


~ Come and see me. n49
Year: 1873

''SrSciatc these gcntlaAen; that an uugrateful
republic steadily refus& TO employ them in
any capacity. But while 'thoy live and are
willing to give the country the benefit Of their
great genius, why should wo despair Of the
rcnublicp
Year: 1873

that both were tirSt-rate men. but in
very different ways. 1t may he queS-
toned whether the First Napoleon
ever could have played the part of the


Third Napoleon: but it would be folly
to believe that the nephew ever could
have taken the part of the uncle Ma
p"lian ILL.,. WAS entirely destitute of
brilliant qualities. and brilliancN was
necessary to the founder of the dynas-
ty. Ii was easy for IL man of talents
to succeed to the place created by Ma
polcou |. but all the talents in the world
could not have created that place. and
established the mdNing influence that
belonged to it. Genius alone could
ii" that. Napoleon the First was the
architect of his own fortunes. and also
of the fortunes of Napoleon the Third.
He was the son of his own works, and
Napoleon III. may he said to have been
their grandson.
Year: 1873

At first the good people ofDix-
ford were SO shocked that they were
tempted not to allow Parson
Bracket to preach to them; but be-
fore the time for the service arrived
he had SO explained matters that
the weight Of blame was lifted from
his shoulders. He preached on that
Sabbath, and on the following day
he sold bis trotter at big advance
ou the price he had paid for him.
Year: 1873

Cur TINS OUT.--A tea made
ofchestnut leaves, and drank IN the
place Of water, is said to cure the
most obstinate case ofdropsy.


Atea made ofripe or dried whortle.
berries, and drank in the place Of wa
ter is a sure and speedy cure for a
scrofalous difficulty however bad.


A tea made Of peach-lesves is a sure
cure tor a kidney difficulty.
Year: 1873

TO MAKE CocoANUT CANDY.
Rasp very fine a sound, fresh cocoa
nut, spread il on a dish and let it
dry naturally for three days. Four
ounces will be sufficient for a pound
Of sugar for most tastes, but more
can be used at pleasure. Boil the
sugar, and when it begins to be very
thick and white strew in the nut;
stir and mix It well, and do not
quit it for an Instant until it is fin
iSlled, Keep the pan a little above
the fire to prevent the nut from
burning.
Year: 1873

There are times when the pulse
lies low in the bosom, and beats low
in the veins; when the spirit sleeps
the sleep which, apparently, knows
no waking, in its house Of clay, and
the window-shutters are closed, and
the door is hung with the invisible
Grape ofmelancholy; when we wish
the golden sunshine pitchy darkness,
and are very willing to fancy clouds
were no clouds be. What shall
make the heart beat music again,
and the pulses dance to it through
all the myriad-thronge halls in our
house OF life? What shall make
the sun kiss the eastern hills again
for us, with all his old awakening
gladness, and the night overflow
with " moonlight, music, love, and
flowers p


Love itself is the stimulant, the
most intoxicating Of all, and per-
forms all these miracles; but it is a
miracle Itself, and is not at the
drugstore, whatever they say. The
counterfeit is in the market, but
the winged god is not a money
changer, we assure you.
Year: 1873

Always avoid the company in
which you are willing to tell a
coarse jest, because for you it is a
domoraIizing company. Grossuess
isnever humorous, profanity is never
admirable; and if your manner and
speech once begin to rayel ont on
that edge, all its manliness and
charm are in danger.
Year: 1873

1t will not do hereafter to say
of the dullest boy in the family that
he can be the farmer, because he
is unit for anything else. He must
have all the elements Of an earnest
man in linn, with good reasoning
and analytical powers, and no slow
blood or ill-directed brain; or else
though he may make . poor lawyer,
doctor, or politician, it is moi at all
probable he willsucceed as a farmer.
Year: 1873

It is the essential nature of all wines
and spirits to send an increased amount
of blood to the brain. The first effect
of taking a glass of wine or stronger
form of alcohol, is to send the blood
there faster than common, hence the
circulation that gives the red face. 1t
increases the activity of the brain, and
it works faster, and SO does the tongue.
But the blood goes to the brain faster
than common, it returns faster, and no
special harm results. But suppose a
man keeps on drinking, the blood is sent
to the brain SO fast, in such large guam
titles, that in order to make room for it
the arteries have to enlarge themselves /;
they increase in size, and in doing so
they press against the more yielding and
fiaccid veins which carry the blood out
of the brain and thus diminish their
size, their pores, the result being that
the blood is not only carried to the arte-
ries of the brain faster than is natural
or healthful, but it is prevented from
leaving it as fast as usual hence dou-
BILE set of causes of death are in opera
ton. A man may drink enough brandy
or other spirits in a few hours, or even
minutes, to bring on fatal attack Of
| apoplexy.
Year: 1873

foolish little maiden bought foolish little bonnet,
And, that the other aidens of the little town might


know it,


just to show it.
But though the little bonnet was scarce larger than
The getting Of it settled proved to be work of


time:
so when twas fairly tied, all the bells had stopped


their ringing, .
And when she came to meeting, sure enough, the


folks were singing.
So this foolish little maiden stood and waited at the
And she shook her ruffies out behind and smoothed


them down before.
"Halleluia! haileluja ~ sang the choir above her
Hardly knew you! hardly knew you'll" were the


words she thought they said.
This made the little maiden feel very, vera GROSS
That she gave her little mouth twist, her little head


toss;
For she thought the very hymn they sang was all
With the ribbon and the feather the bit of lace


upon it.
And she would not wait to listen to the sermon or
But pattered down the silent street and hurried up


the stair,
TIL she reached hen little bureau, and in a band


box on it ,,..,
Had hidden safe from critics eye her foolish little


bonnet.
Which proves, my little maidens, that each of you
In every Sabbath service but echo Of your mind
Will get blessing from sermon or from


prayers.
Year: 1873

doctor seemed to mix in with me, but I
didn't consider him no more than brush
fence, for was SO far gone thought
she could see nobody on earth but me.
Well, Squire, things went on so for about
month, and on Sunday I screwed up
my spunk and put the question to her.
She sorter laughed and sorter looked
one sided, and finally told me she couldn't
give me an answer just then, but if I'd
call at her house next Thursday evening,
she'd give me a final answer. Thinks !,
you're mine just as sure as there's fid-
dler below. Whenever q woman takes
time to study she'll say yes. Squire,
don't the poets say something about
the calculation of men and rats going
crooked ?'


"Mice, and men, Burns says" I
answered.


"We1, mice and rats is all one, and so
is men and fools sometimes, as I have
found out in my travels. I was so sure
she would have me that went off and
spent all my money for fine clothes,
the wedding-and did Confonnd that
widow, I sayl Confound all widows !!
Thursday evening came at last, although
it was long time about it, and over 1
went, dressed into fits and feeling as big
as Josh Raymor did when he was elected
Coroner. I got there about dark and
found right smart crowd collected,
which was not on the bills, but L felt as
big and as good as the rest of 'em. So
I marched in like blind mule into a
potato patch, and took seat by the fire.
didn't see anything of the widow, but
kept looking for her to come in and send
for me, and passed away the time cussin'
the crowd to myself, thinking they had
no business there, and I would not get
to talk to my woman bit. Presently
the door opened and in walked Polly
and the dad-burned doctor and whole
team of boys and girls fixed up savagely,
tell you. Hooked around for a fiddler,
thinking they were about to have ball,
but wondered what they all kept SO
still for, and was about proposin' reel,
when up gets little preacher, and before
you could swallow live oyster he had
Polly and the doctor married faster than
Mexican greaser could tie bulls horns.
was so completely fummuxed that sat
there with my mouth open like 1 was
going to swallow the whole crowd, and
my eyes looked like billiard balls till the
ceremony was over, when I jumped up
and beloved
Year: 1873

Thaer fixes thirteen pounds as the
quantity of hay per day which cow re-
quires for her maintenance in perfect
condition; and if in milk, he allows as
many as twenty-five to twenty-three
pounds, but the ration must vary with
the weight of the animal. MIR. Per-
rault, another foreign writer, states
twenty-seven pounds as the allowance
for a mich COW weighing about $50
pounds, he having in his experience
found that an animal in milk required
about six and one-quarter pounds hay
for every 220 pounds of living weight.
A very large OK or COW, relatively to its
weight, requires less food than an ami
NAL of smaller dimensions. And this
circumstance is grand argument with
those breeders who are in favor of very
large cattle. They say that if large OK
consumes more than small one, still
the increase in consumption is by no
means in the ratio Of the increase in
weight The real difference is owing to
the quieter disposition of the animal,
the vessels going to support the flesh
or fat being larger, attained by the be-
aforementioned careful crossing, so that
some breeds have, by such system, at
tanned the faculty of laying more upon
their backs, and others again more in
the adipose tissues within. It may be
said that for every one hundred pounds,
neat cattle require for plain keeping
three-fourths of a pound of meadow
hay; when laboring, two pounds when
in milk, three; growing rapidly, three
and one-half, which ought to be given
with great regularity and about three
times day, constituting as many meals,
which. however, are well divided, the
whole quantity for each meal not being
placed before the animal at once. This
precaution is particularly necessary
when the allowance consists of green
fodder. In fattening cattle it is, per-
haps, of more importance than in gen
eral feeding, that the provender should
be distributed regularly. Plenty of
soft litter and the greatest attention
to cleanliness aid materially in fatten-
ing
Year: 1873

One day Sandy Higgins came into my
Office and sat down without word. For
some minutes he sat still, Watching me
intently, as if trying to make out by the
sound of my pen what was writing.


esquire" he said at length, did 1
ever tell you about my scrape with the
widow Horny up here on the river p"


"Never did" said I, laying down my
pen ." let's have it.


"They're curious creatures, widows
is" said he in a meditative tone, and
the more you study about 'em the more
you don't know anything about 'em.
What was this thing I've read about in
Egypt, or some other country, that no
body could unriddle.


"The Sphinx, probably, I replied.


Well, " continued he, " that was a
widow as sure as you ever had granny.
Eeverything else in the earth has been
found out but them, and they're as mnch
mystery to-day as the length of the North
Pole. You may read the history of the
world from Genesis to Revelations, and
you'll find that widows have been the bot
tom or top of five-quarters of all the
devilment that has been cut up. Was you
ever in love with one ?"


stLots of them, - said I.


you're great gander-that's what
you are,' said he. GA man that loves
one and gets over it won't never get bit
by another, if he's got as much sense as
a ground hog. don't consider that I've
got any sense at all, but I'm a little too
smart to let another of them get all the
trumps on me. The widow Horny that /
was speaking of is little the handsom-
est women, reckon, that ever looked a
man into fits, and I ought to be judge,
for I've seen lots of pretty women in my
day. She was about twenty-five years
when I went up there to work, just in
the bloom of her beauty, and as full of
deviltry as a three-year old mule colt.
There was ball over at Jenkins and of
course went, for always go where
there's any fun going on, and generally
act the fool before I get away. Of course
the widow was there dressed as fine as
Solomon's lilies, and flying around as
frisky as young laLIb In q rye patch. i
got introduced to her and asked her to
dance with me, and when she flashed her
eyes at me and said yes, jumped up
like had set down on a hot griddle. You
may talk about sensation, but when she
took hold of my hand and I sorter
squeezed it, felt a sensation as big as q
load of wood, and it kept running up and
down my back like a squirrel with a
hawk after him. I'm very fond of dane
ing, but Ill be hanged if I knew whether
enjoyed IL Ihab mgnG or not, 1or every
time she took hold of my hand I'd com
mence feeling curious behind my ears
and up and down my back again, and
then wouldn't know whether was on
earth or in a balloon, or on a comet, any
thing about it. It was undoubtedly a
case of love at first sight, and a powerful
bad case at that. For a wonder goi
through the frolic without making con
spicuous or cutting up any extras, as
am In the habit of doing when I go into
public. I'd setmy pegs to go home with
the widow after the ball, but just as I was
fixing my mouth to ask her, up steps {
big, long, leather-faced doctor named
Mabry, and walked her off before my
Year: 1873

A good plan to cleanse musty or foul
casks is to put in a quantity of un-
Stacked lime, and then pour in boiling
water until the same is Stacked. Put in
the bung and shake until the water and
lime have come in contact with every
part of the barrel. Let it stand six or
eight hours empty, and smell the cask,
and if not clean repeat the operation,
and after having again emptied out the
lime, burn a strip of cloth dipped in
melted birthstone in the cask, fastening
it by the bung, and cask must be
foul indeed that cannot be purified by
this process.
Year: 1873

Don't forget to run your harrow over
your wheat the last of March or the first
of April. If sown broad cast, harrow !;
if drilled, harrow with the drill. It will
pull up but little, and will be equal to a
hoe dressing. Try it.


We agree with our correspondent in
regard to the value of narrowing in the
spring: We We, adopted the the. plan m Last last
one-third, at least, to the amount of our
crop by doing so. We narrowed one
way with the A harrow, and then cross
narrowed with Thomas harrow. We
left few rods in the middle of the field
without the first narrowing, as an ex-
pertinent, and found that this place suf-
fered for the neglect all the season.
Northwestern Farmer.
Year: 1873

A fashionable young Partisan, during
his last summers shooting, became init
mate with the pretty wife of a gamekeep-
er and has continued to visit her. Quite
recently the husband became aware of
his dishonor, and contriyed to be near on
the occasion of these visits. He ap-
preached the house singing and whist
ling, and the terrified wife concealed her
lover in closet, and that closet had been
prepared for his reception by the game
keeper. Entering, he ordered his wife
to light the fires and get breakfast. She
obeyed, and at the end of few minutes
thick smoke issued from the closet.
The husband had disconnected the stove
funnel, which ran through it. He affect
ed not to mind this, nor to hear the
groans of the suffocating man within, and
when his wife tainted at her work from
fright, he cody got breakfast himself, ate
it and departed. The poor woman soon
recovered and dragged her lover from his
place of confinement, but the husband s
revenge had been complete he was past
human aid
Year: 1873

"That was the truth, Squire. Soap
and water had no more effect than it
would on native born African, and all
the chance was to wait and let it wear off.
How long it took them to get white again
I never found out, but one thing I do
know" he concluded, getting up to go
had the hardest fight, and came the nigh
est getting whaled that ever did in all
my born days"
Year: 1873

This remedy is simply alum. Take a
knife or crater, and shave or CRATE off
in small particles about teaspoonful of
alum; mix it with about twice its guam
tity of sugar, to make it palatable, and
administer as quick as possible. Its
effects will be truly magical, as almost
instantaneous relief will be afforded.
Year: 1873

inside of a stovepipe. I'd give half my
interest in t'other world just to have been
at some safe place where I could have
seen the row. AS soon as they found that
they were the same felix's that married
the night before, they called for warm
water and soap, but just here the doctor
happened to think about the pitcher and
took it to the door to see what was the
matter. There was little piece of
caustic that had not dissolved, and as he
saw it he says:


"e It's no use washing, Polly. All the
soap in New York city can't wash that
black off.
Year: 1873

Have your steak cut thick, put it on
pointed knife prick it every imaginable
way to make it tender, put it on the
gridiron over the fire, turning it very
often. Put lump of butter, and some
salt and pepper, into a tin dish. Put
your steak dish where it will get
warmed. When the steak is cooked,
put it into the tin dish and double it
over; press out all the blood you can,
and lay the steak on your plate. Set
the tin dish with the blood, pepper, and
salt on the stove, and as soon as it boils
up and thickens pour it over your steak.
You can add can of mushrooms to the
gravy. This recipe was never known to
fail.
Year: 1873

saw was a stick of lunar caustic. I slipped
it into my pocket, for had my plan as
soon as I saw it. Well, watched around


till saw one of the girls go to the pail
with the pitcher, so went out and asked
her what she was going to do with it.
She said she was goiug to carry it to the
room for the doctor and Poll ly to wash
their faces in. I kept talking to her while
turned her head 1 dropped the caustic
into it. It was then about bedtime, and
I got my hat and put out, but I couldn't
help laughing all the way home, when
ever I'd think about it next morning.
Year: 1873

It is the worst policy to kill all tue
best and handsomest fowls, and save
only the mean and scraggy ones to
breed from. This is precisely the way
to run out your stock for like tends to
breed like, and the result is, that by
continually taking away the best birds,
and using the eggs of the poorest, your
flock will grow poorer every succeeding
year.


1t would seem that this was too plain
to be insisted upon, but, in fact, cline
upon line" is needed. It is the crying
want of the poultry upon the farms
the c.untry through-this careful and
intelligent selection of the best for
breeding.


Nothing is lost by little self-denial
to start with. The extra pound or two
of poultry flesh that you leave on the
legs, instead of sending it to market, is
as good seed, and it will bring forth ten
fold and twenty-fold in your future
breeding. ng.-Poeltry World.