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Year: 1876

Our New state and City Brooms.


The new State and city governments will
be inaugurated tomorrow. Governor Rob-
inson steps from the Comptroller's Office
into the Executive chamber under encour-
aging circumstances The report Of his
stewardship as the head of the State fnan-
cial department shows that the practical re-
form of the past two years has effected de-
crease of debt, a curtailnent of expenditures,
and an increase of the sinking fund. He
finds the machinery of the government run
ming smoothly and the prospect good for
the accomplishment Of further reforms be-
fore the expiration of his three years term
of Office. The only bad showing during the
past year is in the State prison management,
which presents deficiency of seven hun
dred thousand dollars. The new system
provided in the constitutional amendments
will remedy this and bring the State prisons
under the same strict rules of economy
and honesty that now prevail in other
departments of the State government. 1t
will be the duty Of Governor Robinson to
make a determined effort TO place the Bank
and State departments under capable
and faithful management. The republican
Legislature may obstruct this necessary
work for the purpose of keeping those
offices in the hands Of their political friends
but as the Senate and Assembly will both be
elected next November any such action
would probably insure the next Legislature
to the democracy.


Mayor Ely also enters upon his. admins
tration under favorable circumstances. He
has a government harmonious in all its parts
to assist him in bettering the condition of
the city, pushing forward desirable works of
public improvement and curtailing expendi-
lures wherever economy may be properly
enforced. Comptroller Kelly promises us
a thorough reform in our financial man.
agement, and it is rumored that he will
soon propose plan for increasing the city
revenues and decreasing taxation which
will commend itself to the approval of the
people. The new Board of Aldermen has a
good working democratic majority, and the
Board of Apportionment and Sinking Fund
Commission will be in democratic hands
Mayor Ely in his message will no doubt
set before the people their exact financial
condition, which they were never able to
ascertain from Comptroller Green. Mr.
Kelly has now been long enough in the
Finance Department to make himself ac-
quainted with the true amount of our
liabilities and assets, and will no doubt
give the Mayor such q clear, explicit bal
ance sheet as the taxpayers have long de-
sired to see The new Mayor should also
make his position on public improvements
distinctly understood in his first official
message. The people of New York wish to
know whether they are to have better docks,
better pavements, better water supply and
more efficient government generally under
Mayor Ely and Comptroller Kelly than they
have had under past administrations, and
they will expect the Mayor to announce his
policy in plain and unmistakable language.
Year: 1876

TIE SEACoASr OF THE United States has seldom
been the scene or so terrible tragedy as that
enacted yesterday and to-day On the lated ship
circassian. Lying but three times her own length
lrom the beach, the fury OF the storm made her ut
terlv Inaccessible, and within hearing OF hundreds
OF svmpathizers twcnty-cight brave fellows went
singing and praying into eternity. Thoughtful men
VIII naturally have doubts TO the efficiency of a
lic-savlng service which cannot pass line TO a
vessel only six hundred feet away. no matter how
lad the weather.
Year: 1876

Tho regular edition of the HERALD will be sent here.
after as far West as Harrisburg and lar South
Washington by special newspaper train. by Adams
Express Company at the usual rates.
Year: 1876

THE R-BLAcKsBURG CADETs.-In
some departments the entries for the State
Fair, which commences on Tuesday next,
are not as numerous rs they were last year,
but in others there are quite as many art-
Giles to be exhibited. The secretary OF the
Society states that there are more horses
entered this year than he has ever known,
and the display in that department will Of
course be very fine, and some fine racing
may be anticipated.


The cadets from Blacksburg have been
engaged to do police duty during the Fair,
and they will of course be here nearly all
OF the week. An escort OF the First Vir-
ginia regiment Of infantry will meet the ca
diets at the depot and escort them to the
Fair ounds.
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR WALKER IN NEW YORK.
Governor Walker has accepted the invita-
ton given him by the National Committee
to speak in New York at four points. He
leaves here on Saturday, 2Sth, and will re-
turn by the 4th of November.


The State Conservative Committee highly
approves of the course Of Governor Walker
in accepting the invitation. The chairmen
of the county committees Of the Third dis
triet also concur in his acceptance, believing
that hls efforts will benefit the party in the
great struggle now going on there.
Year: 1876

DINNER AND SUPPER AT THE SECOND BAP-
TIsT CHURcH.-The supper-concert given by
the ladies at the Second Baptist church last
night proved such success that they have
determined to continue it to-day and to-
night. Dinner will be served from till
O'Clock, and supper from Z. Those who
enjoyed the tempting and plentiful repast
last evening can attest to its excellence, and
will surely not miss it to-day.


The music by the choir and others last
evening was greatly enjoyed, and added
much to the enjoyment of the occasion.
Year: 1876

Observation-Disclosures has been 60
ing on in the city for the past two days with
q decided increase for the white voters. To-
day will be the last day, and it is to be
hoped that every man who is not registered
Will be sure to have his name entered to-
day, 30 that he may be enabled to vote for
Uncle Sammy, the next President OF the
Tinted States.
Year: 1876

The GREAT PLoUGH CASE. The suit Of
Watt uersns Starke for alleged infringe
ment by the latter of q patent mould board
for ploughs, invented, as Is claimed. by the
former, after occupying the attention Of the
United States Circuit Court upon this se-
cond trial for six days, was on Yesterday
afternoon given to the jury, with Judge
Bonds instructions. The jury agreed upon
a verdict ut II O'Clock last night, and sent
for Judge Bond. The Judge did not come
to the courtroom, but he sent note au-
thorizing the jury to seal their verdict, and
place it in the hands Of the deputy marshal,
which was done. The impression among
those about the courtroom was that they
had found for the defendant. That, how
ever, was only conjecture. Several jury
men with whom our reporter conyersed
said that they felt under obligations Of se-
crecy, and would not disclose the nature Of
their verdict until it was formally read in
court. a .{
Year: 1876

A physician of a London hospital
writes to the British Medic0L Journal :.
There is no recognized reason why of
late years neuralgia of the face and scalp
should have increased so much in the
female sex, as compared with Our own.
There is no doubt that it is one of the
most common of female maladies--one
of the most painful and difficult of treat
ment. 1t is also cause of much mental
depression, and leads more often to
habits OF intemperance than any other.
This growing prevalence to neuralgia
may to some extent be referred to the
effects of cold upon the terminal branches
OF the nerves distributed to the skin /;
and the reason why men are less subject
TO 1t than women may to great extent
he explained by the much greater pro-
lection afforded by the mode in which
the former cover their heads when they
ARE in toe open air. 1t may be obserVed
that the surface of the head which is
actually covered IN man il at least three
times that which fashion allows 20
women indeed, the points of contact
between the hat or bonnet and the head
III The latter are so irregular as prac-
tically to destroy any protection which
might otherwise be afforded"
Year: 1876

A gentleman who has lately arrived in
New York from Havana gives an account
of the execution of ten persons, which
took place on the 25th ult., on planta-
ton in Cuba call FL Sunto Cristo. This
plantation is owned by Francisco Con
zales Arrange, and is situated in Vuelta
de Ahalo, near Qmbicon, in the iUris-
diction of Beiucal. 1t seems that a
female slave resisted the advances of the
overseer of the plantation, who then told
such stories about the woman that her
owner ordered her to be severely
whipped. When her punishment was
about to be inflicted, it was found that
the woman would soon become mother.
Her fellow. slaves hoped that on account
of this she might escape, but she was
whipped in q terrible manner. During
the whipping her child was born, and
the husband and six other slaves then
plotted TO kill their master, in revenge
for the brutality practiced upon the
woman, but, failing to find him at the
time, they killed the overseer. Arrange,
the owner, reported the killing of the
mayoral as only the first step toward
causing an insurrection among his slaves
in favor OF the insurgents, and that those
engaged were the conspirators. After a
trial by a court martisl, in which three
were sentenced to be shot, another trial
took place, and seven were condemned
to death. The sentence was soon execu-
ted on Arango's plantation. The mother
of the husband of the woman who was
subjected to the bastinado was COM
PEELED to stand first in the line of slaves
who were paraded TO witness the shoot
ing.
Year: 1876

The Herald OF Heath contains the
following question and answer: How is
mother with restless babe TO obtain
that sleep you advise? have not slept
more than four hours night for the
past year. am losing flesh, and am
nearly broken down. Answer. Find
ont the cause of the sleeplessness OF the
babe and remove it. If you cannot do
this, then get some one to help you, and
take your sleep. If you don't. the con-
sequences will be serious. No doubt
the child has been wrongly managed III
some way. Young babies ought to pass
the first months of their hves in the
country, for its stiffness no less than its
fresh air. But where silence is not to
be commanded, baby may be soothed
by folding a soft napkin, wet with warm
ish water, tightly over the top of Its
head, its eyes and cars. 1t is the best
way to put nervous babies asleep; we
have tried it hundreds of times. A fine
towel would be wet and laid over its
head, the ends twisted little till it made
a sort of sllull-cap, and though baby
sometimes fought against being blind
folded in this way, tive minutes usually
sent him oft into deep and blissful slum-
Der. The compress cooled the little,
feverish brain, deadened sound III his
ears, and shut out everything that took
lis attention, 50 that sleep took him I'M
aware. Teething babies find this very
comforting, for their heads are always
hot, and there is fever beating in the
arteries each side.
Year: 1876

Yes, noble heart, the world is very wide, -
Bright, tropie blossoms crown Southern bride.
And for Northern bride are lilies pure,
The worli is wide and can still endure
But snowy is the world outside your heart.
know, true soul, tie hills are green and gay;
heard a rObbin piping yesterday;


l saw a little mailen made briie;
! knew then that the world was very wide,
And snowy was the world outside your heart.
Why do question so with wistful eyes!
Glad to It's nest the loving swallow flies,
And when the robin pipes he loves his mate
All me, the sorld is wide AMI desolate;
A snowy world it is outside your heart
Yes, love. know fate made the barrier strong
To look so at the little bride is wrong
Wide is the world, but when the robin trills
1t seems as if my love might cross the hills,
And creep out CT the SHOW into your heart.
Year: 1876

Some time think you viii be glad to know


That have kept you ever i'll my heart,
And that MY love has only deeper grown


In all the time that We have ioved apart.
some day, " ben yon have slipped sway from care
And IDLY falito dreaming of the past,
And sadly think Of al your life has missed.


Aoa ~iii remember my true love At last.
or IT may come to pass, some dreary night,


After day that has been hard TO bear.
when you are weary, heart-sick and forlorn,


And there is none u comfort or to care,
That you viii close your tired eyes to dream
Offender kisses falling soft and light.
oi restiul touches smoothing back your hair,
And sweet words spoken for your hearts delight
Oh! then you VIII remember and be glad


That have kept you ever In my beat.
And that your hearts true home VIII stin be there
Although We wander silent aud apart.
Year: 1876

To IMPROVE TIE APPEARANCE OF
FUaNIrUEE.-Take soft sponge, vet
with clean, cold watsr aud wash over
the article. Then take soft cham0ls
skin and wipe it clean. Dry tie skin
as well as you can by wringing It IN
the hands, and wipe the water of the
furniture, being careful to wipe ouly
one way. Never use dry chafnols
on varnish work. If the yarnlsh IS
defaced and shows white marks, take
linseed oil and tupertine in equal parts
shake them well in vial and apply 4
very small quantity Qn soft ras until
The color IS restored. then with
clean soft rag wipe the mixture on
10 deeply carved WORK tn dust can
not be removed with sponge. 1se
a slif haired paint brush instead OF q
sponge.
Year: 1876

A HEATHEN's MIsFoRTUNE.-Mr. Ah
Tin is celestial gentleman who years
ago for.ook the Flowery Kingdom for a
home in the "land of the brave" etc.,
and had his local residence in the old
trading post at Arkansas Dam. Last
Saturday night All Tin retired to his
lone couch at the usual hour. The sleep
of innocence fell upon him. and an OBJ
server, if he had been there might have
seen a smile that was "child like and
bland" fit over his features as he
dreamed, perchance, Of robbing some
Mclean mans sluice box, or making a
raid upon his hen roost. And while this
vision fitted through his brain, the fire
was burning the roofof his humble abode.
The smoke at last reached. strangled and
awoke All Tin. who escaped with moth
ing but a single blanket. The house and
everything in it was destroyed.
Year: 1876

BE CAREFUL.-A DOWN river frie
the other day related to us circumstance
which he thought should prove warn
ing to young gentlemen about to enter
the holy bonds of matrimony. Ina neigh
boring county. a young man living re-
mote from the County Seat. having pre-
viously made all other necessary arrange
ments for his wedding, wrote to the
County Clerk for License, but unfortu-
nately neglected to state the particular
kind required. the letter was urgent,
and it being at a season OF the year when
Stallion License was in great demand
the Clerk, presuming that was what was
wanted, sent him one. 1t perhaps un-
necessary TO add that the wedding was
postponed until the error in the licence
could be corrected.
Year: 1876

There is no pathological fact more
clearly ascertained than that the most
formidable phases of nervous diseases are
directly traceable to imperfect digestion.
Insomnia, with its train of dreful conse-
quence, proceeds more frequently from
weakness of the stomach than from any
other cause. Mere sedatives are power
less to cure nerv business, and soon cease
to paliate its symptoms. The true way
To strengthen the nervous system is to
invigorate the digestive and assimilative
organs, upon whose unobstructed action
its equilibrium is absolutely DEPENDENT
The daily use of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters will do more to brace aud soothe the
weakened and irritated nerves, and in
duce sound, refreshing sleep natures
grand cathoicon-than all the so-cslled
nervnes to be found in the pharmaco.
peia or out of it. A wineglass-tul of the
Bitters should be taken before each meal.
Year: 1876

Cur THRoUeH.-One of the heavy
freight wagons while coming down Main
Street the other day cut through into an
old disused tunnel which runs under the
street. The tunnel is the one through
which the picturesque spot on the cor
ner was worked at an early day, and its
existence was unknown to R.ost people.
The wonder expressed was that where
thers has been 50 much travel it had not
been broken into before.
Year: 1876

LIKE A BOMBARDmENT.-C Chapman
& Fisher have one OF the hardest claims
in the State to work in consequence
of the immense number of large bowl
ders scattered through the dirt. 1t
keeps force Of from five to -even men
constantly employed in drilling, bias
ting and working up rock into small
enough pieces to be driven into the
bedrock bitches. The blasts are char.
ged with giant powder and not dis
charged as soon as ready, but all hands
drill and charge til just before quitting
at noon and night when they are let
off at the same time. 1t sounds like a
bombardment.
Year: 1876

AN IMPROVED DRILL.-While at
Chapman & Fishers claim Monday,
Mr.. Loutier, who does the blacksmith.
ing for the claim. showed US some i'm
provements he bad made which work
excellent. One OF these was a die for
stamping the points of the drills giving
them teeth instead of the convex bit
usually found. Loutier has been max
ing this style Of drills for more than a
year and they are found to be much
superior to the old style. He says he
can make drill that will cut diamond
and we shant dispute it until we know
better,
Year: 1876

SAVING FINE GoLD.-Recently the
fume OF Chapman & Fisher broke down,
settling the two upper boxes Of the sun
der-current." They were compelled
to clean these boxes up before restoring
them to position, and realized forty five
ounces of fine gold. This gold had passed
through long bed rock bitches and through
their fume and but for the under-currcnt
would be washed into the river. Miners
who worked the rich benches of Trinity
river before the modern appliances of
mining we're known, have lost many
thousand dollars which could have been
saved
Year: 1876

PROSPECTS. We learn that the Sher-
iian Brothers have found very good
prospects in the field in front OF their res
lence. The ground is shallow and can
be easily worked. They are now engaged
in running cut up to their new claim
from Trinity River, in preparation for
sluioing next winter.
Year: 1876

WORSE, WoRsER, WoRsr.- Never
before in the ANIMALS of Weaveryille
was there so little tn record in the local
columns of The JOURNAL rs during the
past week. Everybody is busy attend
ing to their own business, and have no
time to make interesting news items.
Year: 1876

WATER.-As ar indication Of the ex-
Cellence of the present Spring as water
regulator, we heard an old miner remark
the other day that if;he miners in Weav-
er Basin had an immense reservoir on
the head of East Weaver Creek, they
could not regulate tho water any better
than the weather hs. been doing il.
Year: 1876

ACCIDENT AT THE TOWER HOUSE,
The eldest daughter of Mr.. Camden
met with a serious accident last week. in
being thrown from buggy. DR.. Brice-
land was sent for from Shasta, and on
his arrival found the case so serious that
he atom asked the attendance of another
physician, and DR.. Lord of this place
went over on Tuesday night.
Year: 1876

SUMNER GOODS. Attention is called
TO the new advertisement of Isaac Pin
Gus. He has a complete stock of Dry
Goods and clothing for Summer wear,
and will not be undersold by any house
in the county.
Year: 1876

This is the season when vegetable
diet is greatly to be preferred. Meats
should be eaten in moderation. If far
mers would consume more of the prod
ucts OF their own soil, they would he a
healthier class. Many Of the diseases
from which they suffer are caused by
their manner of living. Singularly
enough, they are the principal producers
of vegetables and yet consume cempar-
atively the smallest amount OF them =
To keep the system regular and the
blood pure requires the liberal use OF
vegetables, and il the whole communi.
ty would imbibe that idea, and practical
ly illustrate it in their daily diet, We
should have less frightful mortality bills
a good deal Of what is called "sun
stroke" is in reality beef stroke -Phila
Star. re
Year: 1876

The "'76 stone house" at Tappan,
which was village tavern at the time of
the capture Of Major Andre, and in which
he was imprisoned until he was hanged, is
fast crumbling. The wooden piazza is
so decayed as to be unsafe to step upon.
The room where Andre was confined re-
mains the same as when occupied by him


One of the Supreme Court Judges IN
South Carolina suggests the following
plan for preventing drunkenness: Allow
every person to sell as much liquor as he
wishes, without tax or license, but require
those who drink to apply for license, and
to give notice of such application by
publishing it for one month in the official
newspaper in the city or county land then,
if there be no objection, 10 enter into a
bond for good behavior before the au-
thority to drink is granted.
Year: 1876

We need a reformation sure,
A turning to the right,
A man whose heart is true and pure
To lead us into light.
We need an honest President,
With wisdom in his ways,
A different man from U. s. Grant,
Or Rutherford B. Hayes.


Hurrah for Uncle Sam.
Year: 1876

Take it all in all, says the Sacramento Bee, referring to the death of young lady there, this is the saddest case we have ever known. A foul breath blown on the fame of tender girl, and waited from ear to ear, until it becomes 8 pes tiferous cloud enveloping all her hopes and drawing out her life. She never lifted head or heart or hope after the blow descended. She was stunned, and recovered not from the fatal wound. In her lonely room, hidden from public gaze, with only the comforts of her de- voted mother and weeping sister and her own consciousness that she had been so foully wronged, she lived, wishing to die and daily preparing to deserve in the hereafter portion of that happiness which was so cruelty denied her here. And the poor thing, in talking of her death and burial, besought from her parents promise that they would not permit her face to be looked upon by strangers after death, and that they would bury her quietly away from Sac ramento, so as to let her pass "beyond the river" unknown to earth. This pledge the sorely tied parents have kept, hence it was that the body, con- sumed by grief until there is only bone and sinew left, was taken to San Fran cisco for interment. She looked upon Sacramento as her Golgotha, where she was stung to death by islander, and de- sired only that she might be forever hidden away from the people.
Year: 1876

This is the way his name read on the hotel register

 "Constable Henry Harrison Paul, Indiana"

 He was portly man, he talked in 8 loud voice, and he darkly hinted to the clerk that he was here on important business.

 The next morning after his arrival he spread out five or six papers on the read ing room table, and went over each col umn of each paper in turn. He was oo- cupied for nearly two hours, and as he was folding up the papers gentleman who had been interested in his actions inquired:

 "Well, didn't you find what you were looking after?"

 "No, sir, didn'tl" said the Hoosier, in loud voice.

 "I always thought the press of New York was up to the mark in enterprise, but I came into town early yesterday morning, and not dunn paper has line of notice about it yet I"
Year: 1876

Diphtheria, that so much dreaded dis

 ease, may usually be checked If taken in season, but if neglected beyond certain time, it often bafles the highest skill.

 The first symptoms of the disease-sore throat, fever, and general prostration- are too often regarded as the re ut of 8 common cold. The throat should always be examined as soon as soreness is felt.

 The distinctive feature of diphtheria is the forming of false membrane in the throat, which usually first shows itself in grayish patches. A competent phy- sician should be immediately summoned if there are indications of the disease, and until he arrives gargles of chlorate of potash may be used or pounded ice administered. The chief cause of diph- theria is neglect of sanitary precautions, and especially the inhalation of foul air.