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Year: 1870

WHEN handsome fruit is intended to
be shown at fair or sent to friend, it
will add something in the way of novelty
to have it's name or that of some person
printed indelibly upon its surface. This
may he done in several ways, but the
most common methods are as follows:
Just before the fruit has attained its ma
turity, cut from tough, thin paper the name
proposed and paste this upon the side OF
the specimen most fully exposed to the
sun. Thatportion of the fruit covered by
the paper will assume different color
from the other, and when ripe the paper
is removed, leaving the name distinctly
visible. Upon squashes and melons,
names and figures may be indelibly inn
pressed by slightly scratching the sur,
face while they are growing Hearth @''a
Home.
Year: 1870

Mr.. SHANKLIE, this morning, in q
card which will be found on the sec
ond page of the JOURNAL. places him
self on the Republican Platform with
reference to the Wabash and Erie
Canal question with the exception of
one particular. he says that he will
not, if elected, vote for the payment Of
the canal debt, or any part of it. So
far very good. We are gratifed to have
the gentleman express himself thus
pointedly on this important question.
The only difference now between
him and his Republican compet-
itors on this question is, that
while he says he will not
vote for the assumption Of the debt
by the State, Messrs. Heilman and
Hooker are pledged not only to vote
against the swindle, but to vote for
an amendment to the Stlte Constitu
ton that will forever prevent any
other Legislature from taking back
the Canal and saddling IL e State will
the debt of $4,000 600. for which i
is now held IN trust
Year: 1870

A CORRESPONDENT, this morning,
answers pretty conclusively and salts
factorily, we think. the important
question, Have we a MsyOr?" He
demonstrates that we have no such
officer, and that any attempt By any
body 10 discharge the duties of that
official is a usurpation of the most in
tolerable character. We ask for tie
communication a careful and thought
fuI reading. We are much mistaken
in the people if they will tolerate, for
any great length Of time, the usurpa-
ton &c the highest aud most important
municipal office. Means will certainly
be discovered 10 oust the usurper
decently, quietly. and in full accord
ance with law.
Year: 1870

AFTER exhorting the Democracy of
the South SO. earnestly to appeal to the
negroes to stand by the Democratic
party in its fight for honesty, for JUS
tice, for integrity and for EQUAL
LAWS" We hope Mr.. Hendricks will
not change front tonight. and appeal
to prejudice against the negro. He
says there is no occasion to entertain
dislike to the negro.
Year: 1870

THE BIoRAMA.-Our readers will bear in
mind the exhibitions of this beautiful pano-
rama which will be given tonight and to-
morrow night (Monday and Tuesday, at
tween Broad and Marshall. The exhibi-
tions are given by the ladies Of Hollywood
Association in order to raise money to re.
place the fence around the Confederate
Cemetery at Hollywood. Besides witness
ing one of the most beautiful works of art
now on exhibition in America, you will at
the same time be contributing to a noble
object, the mere announcement of which
should secure full houses. A view of jack
sons grave at Lexington-a picture twenty
feet in dameter-is said to be alone worth
the price of admission.
Year: 1870

A PRAIsEwoRTHY AcT.-The State Jour-
nal reports that General Wickham, vice
president of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, gave to one of the young men who
was injured at the late disaster on that
road new suit of clothing throughout,
S25 in cash, paid his expenses (board and
medical attendance) while sick at the
White Sulphur Springs, and also gave him
work at tue railroad for ten years at FIRST
class wages, to date from the day of the
accident. Such prompt liberality should
b. publicly commended. The wounded
generally are loud in their praise cf the care
and attention given them by all the officers
and employees Of the railroad.
Year: 1870

Messrs. WATKINS & BROTHER have on hand q
large lot OF seasoned oak and forest pinc-said to
he The best ever seen in the city-at greatly re-
duccd prices. South side of the basin between
Tenth and Eleventh streets.
Year: 1870

THEY had done good work in their day.
They were large and round, so that when
she saw a thing she saw it. There was q
crack across the upper part of the glass,
for many baby had made them a play
thing, and all the grandchildren had at
some time tried them on. They had some
times been so dimmed with tears that she
her apron before she could see through
them at all Her second sight" had
now come, and she would often let her
glasses slip down, and then look over the
top of them while she read. Grandmoth-
er was pleased at this return of her vision.
Getting along sowel without them, she
often lost her spectacles. Sometimes they
would be for weeks untouched on. the
shelf, in the red morocco case, the flap up
lifted. She could now look off upon the
hills, which for thirty years she had not
been able to see from the piazza. Those
were mistaken who thought she had no
poetry in her soul You could see it in
the way she put her hand under the chin
of primrose or cultivated the gsranium.
Sitting on the piazza one evening, in her
rocking chair, she saw a ladder of cloud
set up against the sky, and thought how
easy it would be for spirit to climb it.
She saw, in the deep glow of the sunset,
chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire,
and wondered who rode it. She saw a
vapor floating thinly away, as though it
were wing ascending, and grandmother
uttered in low tone: GA Yapor that ap-
peareth for a little season, and then van
isheth away" She saw hill, higher than
any she had ever before seen on the hori-
zon, and on the top of it a kings castle.
The motion of the rocking. chair became
slighter, until it stopped. The spectacles
fell out of her lap. A child hearing it,
ran to pick them up, and cried: Grand
mother, what is the matter ?" She an
swered not, She never spoke again. Sec
ond sight had comet Her vision had
grown better and better. What she could
not see now was not worth seeing. Not
now through a glass, darklyl Grand
mother had no more need of spectacles


Req Thomas De Witt IdLmdge.
Year: 1870




A, tall and venerable man arose from his
seat; clearing his voice with hem, he
spoke:


"Brethren, You seem lost in the brief
and eloquent words of your learned ad-
viser.s To me nothing could be more ap-
propriate to our case. It is just such q
profound and applicable reply TO us as we
should have hoped and looked for from
the learned and good man, John Bulkley.
The direction to repair the fences is to
take heed in the admission and govern
ment of our members; we must guard the
church by our Makers laws, and keep
out stray and vicious cattle from the fold /
And, above all things, set trustworthy
and vigilant watch over that old black
bull, who is the devil, and who has al
ready broken into our enclosures and
sought to desolate and lay waste the
grounds of our church"


The effect of this Interpretation was
electrical. All saw and took the force of
Mr.. Bulkley's cogent advice, and unani-
mously resolved to be governed by it;
hence the old black bull was put A0rs du
combat, and the church preserved In
union.


The effect produced on the farmer by
the communication intended for the
church, history does not record.
Year: 1870

EVERY man should be sober sometimes.
I once knew one so unfortunate as to be
sober all the time, and yet an honest man.
We have known men that never smiled,
or seldom, whose faces were rigid as an
iron mask, and yet they were kind, sim
pie, and really reliable.


But such are exceptional cases. Uni
form sobriety is presumptively very much
against man. He who gives no play to
the gentler feelings has something the
matter with him that should be looked
into before one trusts him.


Mirth itself is not always honest. But
it tends to openness, to sincerity, to sweet
ness. Mirth has better stuff in it to make
man of than sobriety has. 1t, too, is
used sometimes as a mask for hypocrisy I;
but not half so often as sobriety is. Only
consider how many men, quite empty and
worthless, inwardly neither rich nor force
full, are kept agoing by the mere trick of
gravity.


When some men come to you it is hike
sunrise. Everything seems to take new
life, and shines. Other men bring night
with them. The chill shadow Of their So
briefly falls upon every innocent gayety,
and your feelings, like birds at evening,
stop singing and go to their roost.


Away with these fellows who go owling
through lfe-all the while passing for
birds of paradise.


He that cannot laugh and be gay should
look well to himself He should fast and
pray until his face breaks forth into light.
-Beecter.
Year: 1870

Those who are in the habit of attending
police and other courts must have OBJ
served the difficulty under which the law
yers and Judges labor sometimes in get
ting witnesses to testify in legal form.
The following, which recently took place
at Cincinnati court, is an amusing and
perfect example: A man had been caught
In the act of theft, and pleaded in exten-
uatlOn that he was drunk


Court Ito the policeman who was wit
ness).


What did the man say when you ar
rested him ?"


Witness. "He said he was drunk"
Year: 1870

parture for your long home. Pray Heaven
that the eternal door you knock at then is
not shut upon you'll


We did not know there was so much in
the door until we got to writing about it.
Our attention had not been attracted to it,
owing, probably, to the fact that we were
never shown the door" /" not as we recol
lect. Our only advice, in concluding, is,
beware of evil doors Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1870

The fee and salary bill passed in March, 1868,
will undoubtedly be modified somewhat by our
present Legislature. The fact is beyond ques-
tion that in some instances the pay of county
officials as fixed in the earlier and flush times
was too high. In correcting this matter care
should have been taken not to proceed to the
other extreme. We know very well that there
is considerable difference in the cost of living
and the expense of travelling in different portions
of this State. This of course affects every
branch of business and should be taken into
consideration in fixing the compensation of Of
fcers. The bills referred to general and
were not framed with regard to local peculiari-
ties existing in the different counties. So far as
this county is concerned some alterations should
be made. By the provisions of the bills men
toned the Offices of Justice of the Peace, Con-
stable and Assessor are practically abolished in
this county. Constables cannot earn wages in
travelling the county at the rates established.
Whoever assesses Trinity for the sum of eight
hundred dollars will do so for glory and not for
the pay. The assessment of properly is the
foundation of our finances, and upon its being
thoroughly done everything depends. Common
sense dictates that person will assess this
county at bis own expense, and true economy
requires that whatever sum Is necessary to en-
sure faithful assessment should be paid. 1t is
absolutely necessary that the Assessor have one
or more special deputies, and that in addition he
travel the length and breadth of the county.
The taxation of property is only certain
source of income, and if our assessment roll
foots up it should it will oe because the AS
SCISSOR is paid for his trouble, and not otherwise.
The Assessor should be paid as heretofore, and
his compensation fixed by the Board Of Super
visors. The matter of raising the pay of officers
is usually unpopular, but we have no hesitation
in asserting that four-ffths of the citizens and
taxpayers of Trinity county are in favor of
amending the fee and salary bills as we have
suggested. We invite the attention Of our As.
sembyman to this subject, believing that it will
receive prompt and intelligent attention at his
hands.
Year: 1870

Foolish LEGIsLArIoS.-Th San Jose Mercury
thus notices the proposition to mutilate the jour
nal of the California Senate by blotting out the
record of Hardys impeachment, and presumes
the ridiculous farce will be duly enacted. After
condemning the proposition to pay his salary the
Mercury adds Perhaps they had better repu-
diate the action of the Legislature which elected
Cole to the United States Senate assume that he
msrepresents the people of California and de-
clare vacancy; then proceed to elect one OF
their own stripe in his place The thing would
be no more absurd than the Hardy restoration
game"
Year: 1870

The Pope. is now reported to be desirous that
the Ecumenical council should avoid any dis
cussion OF the principle of infalibility, unless
there Is an overwhelming majority to support
this claim. The London Times correspondent
at Rome writes that the Pope's influence over
the Ecumenical council is visibly growing
weaker
Year: 1870

Enterprise of December 10th says:


We are informed by parties who saw the
strange sight, that at the time of the first heavy
earthquake shock In this city, last Sunday eve-
ming, there appeared just above the Western hor-
izon three bright lights, presenting the appear
ance of large stars, each furnished with tail
about foot in length with all the tails point
ing southwark. In two or three minutes the
stars and all, merged into one body with vail
of haze overspreading it. The glowing globe of
fire thus shrouded is said to have presented a
very beautiful appearance. 1t moved off in a
northwesterly direction, and in few minutes
passed away. This strange sight was observed
by quite number of persons in the city.
Whether it had anything to do with the earth
quake business OF the evening and night we are
not prepared to say.
Year: 1870

RAILROAD CONsTRUCToN.-O half mile of
iron and tie is being forwarded to Chico for the
construction of the California and Oregon Rail
road each alternate day, and will continue so till
the rainy season sets in, when work will be
abandoned till early Spring. j. H. Srobridge,
the contractor, is at present on visit to the
East MqrNsrMe AppeaL
Year: 1870

A Boston acquaintance of our own, a lady
of great responsibility, was walking last week
up Fifth Avenue, in much frequented part of
that great thoroughfare, at the hour of about
half past ten in the forenoon. The wind blew
off her veil, and little girl ran to pick it up
and returned it to her. The lady took her
port-monnaie from her mutf and made the
child some suitable compensation. Imme-
diately upon proceeding on her way, u we'll
dressed man seized her hand, drew it from
the mutf, took from her the port-monnaie,
and retreated with no very rapid steps. She
screamed and announced the robbery, and
few persons made some not very strenuous
attempts to pursue the robber At length, a
policeman appeared and hearing her COM
plant said, "Oh, madam, this happens here
very frequently, and nobody really dares to
seize the thief" II would not live in such
city !" exclaimed the lady. ''Nor |, either"
said the policeman, ''if l could help it," The
lady pursued her way up town, but upon
coming down Fifth Avenue, met the very
robber at corner. He politely lifted his hat
and coolly inquired, Madame, have you
found your purse?" She was glad to get out
of such equivocal company, and to return to
her Boston home, as soon as possible.
Thieves on large scale, we know, abound
in New York, but, except for the avowal of
the policeman, we should have thought a
robbery so bold and so remarkable as this
mnst be unexampled. Boston Courier
Year: 1870

Everything taken into consideration, | believe
there is no better fowl than the Brahma They
are good layers both in summer and winter and /


think will thrive little feed as any breed we
! have WHICH | am acquainted with. | have flock
| of eighty light Pea Comb Brahmas, which I give
| only one half ear of corn once a dav, and the


scraps from the table, and they have laid all winter.
| They are a very easy fowl to raise and yery
hardy | have young brood, Matched Feb 9th,
They are doing finely. have not lost one of them,
The Brahma is Il good setter and mother and for
table fowl they have no equal. Their flesh is yery
White, tender and juicy, and full as good for the
eplcure, IN my opinion, as Il turkey. and a good
far Brahma is as large as a small turkey, weigh
ing at maturity from eight to fourteen pounds The
Brahma when well bred is handsome fowl: fake
flock OF about 10 Brahmas on the lawn pasturing
anu they look more like a flock of sheep than fowls
and thento see them marching into the roost at night
fili,, one after another, is sight worth seeing


They are very docile fowl and bear confinement
Well 1oI they are not of a rowing nature They
cannot fly over common board fence, for their
bodies are heavy and their wings very short and
rounding at the point, that they cannot sllpport
the body.


But still there are other fowls with good points
as well AS the Brahma, but my honest opinion is
that the pure Bralma is fairly entitled to claim to
have more of them than any other breed of fowls
we nave and If any of our readers have any breeds
winch they think are better than the Pure Light Pea
Comb Brahma, everything taken into consideration
we would like to hear from them. Western Far
mer.
Year: 1870

sentiment which WIN not fail to visit with It's con
demnauon any attempt OF the uie OF improper
means ~ influence the votes OF legislative TO oiy
The report ~ signel by Senators rrunbuli, Ed
minds. Conkng, Carpenter and Thurman.


Senators Stewart ana Rice, In the views presented
by them, say that it Is disclosed by The testimony
that many things undoubtedly occurred not credit
able to the parties concerned. The Investigation
has been mainly directed to the conduct OF those
opposed to the adoption OF the Bingham amend
ment IL was imposslD e. In the limited time allowed
to give the subject such consideration deserved
or TO inquire in regard to the conduct OF the parties
in favor OF the amendment, except as the conduct
Of Chapman was incidentally inquired into. The
report Of the majority, so far az Avery
and Porter are concerned Is fully sus
tanned by the evidence. There Is no evidence
to connect any Senator or Governor Bullock
with the conduct or purposes OF any OF these men.
They cannot concur In the report Of the majority,
wherein they attach blame to Governor Bullock for
money paid to the Chronicle, as there not In the
matter published anything that there would be any
object In concealng from publication. There Is no
evidence that Governor Bullock had any connection
with the editorials He SIMPLY paid the bills. asking
no questions. The dissenting Senators agree that
the prices were extravagan and the charges for the
reading matter were hardly justi1ablc In paper
occupying the position OF the Chr0ncte. In conclu
sion, they say Governor Bullock acted honorably
and fairly throughout the whole controversy In
other respects they concur IN the report
Year: 1870

bill proposing kind Of reciprocity treaty with
Prince Edward Island.


Increase Of Revenuo In the South.
supervisor Perry, or the district Of North ana
South Carolina, reports an Increase IN the annual
assessment list over thai OF 1850 Of "a s2-l00 per
cent, with one district to hear from.


Weekly Customs Receipts.
The following were the customs receipts for the
Year: 1870

and comfort TO sacrifice It
all to the wear and tear Of dress
and display, and the demoraiizing
corruption Of eclipsing their
neighbors. Who will be the first
to inaugurate q new era in summer
country costumes?
Year: 1870

Perhaps we are not altogether going to the
dogs on this side the Atlantic. IL we may be
permitted to gather little comfort from COM
parisons, we can venture to hope that we are
not much worse than all the world. From
time immemorial we have been pointed at by
English and continental writers as the types Of
the barbarous in all respects-as the one people
of the earth that was utterly, hopelessly, in
curably guilty of every known and concelva-
BILE vice. But are we, after all, so much worse
than our censors? 1t is true that our quarrels
are sometimes bloody. Yet we do not often
do worse than did Mr.. Pierre Bonaparte when
he shot Victor Noir in his own parlor. Out in
Arkansas they do or did indulge in savage
duels. We do not. however, re member anything
worse in that way than the killing of Henri de
Bourbon by the Duke of Montpensier. In
some instances also the purity of society is
little damaged by free love practices; but
none OF our trials present worse appearance
than did the Mordaunt trial. There are
Americans, too, who indulge in concentrated
bitterness Of speech towards their opponents; !;
but the canvass in which Mr.. Bernal
Osborne was candidate for the House Of
Commons exhibited disregard for the ameni-
ties Of discussion and the decencies of life
altogether that quite puts us in fear for our
laurels in that way. We may not be so much
worse than everybody else after all.
Year: 1870

A BALKY TEAM.-The experiment tried by
the Erie managers to run ballet spectacle
and a railroad at the same time is an unfortu-
nate one for the travelling public. While these
magnates are admiring the red fire and tinsel
of ''The Twelve Temptations" the trains and
the employees of the road seem to have hoii-
day Of their own, and hardly day passes now
without some accident Even Sunday was not
exempt from the rule, as train on entering
the Bergen tunnel went off the track, owing to
the carelessness Of switchman. Fortunately
nobody was hurt, but that fortunate circum-
stance does not lessen the guilt Of carelessness
on the part Of the delinquent employe. The
managers should spare little time from their
spectacle to look after the conduct Of their en-
ployes on the railroad.
Year: 1870

II appears that some Of the military chiefs Of
Cuba are 80 disgusted with the United States
government that they are forming clubs Of
independence hostile to all projects Of annexa-
ton to this republic. Intercepted letters by the
Spanish authorities reveal this fact, 1t is said.
II would not be surprising should this be so,
for though the press and people of the United
States generally sympathize with tho Cubans
in their struggle for liberty, the authorities at
Washington have proved more friendly to
Spain than to Cuba. We do not think such q
movement would so far, or that those who
have the control of Cuban affairs would sacri-
fee the interests of their country from feel
ing of disappointment or retaliation. Still Il
will be well to consider how far it is prude mt
or polite to make enemies Of people who
must some day be annexed to the United
States. II is unworthy great nation like
this to pursue the dog-n-the- policy
towards . neghboring people lighting for free
dom. We will not let any other Power inter
fere; we would not permit Cuba to fall into
the hands of any other nation, and yet we do
nothing ourselves. We stand with our arms
folded in indifference while fearfully bloody


war is going on along our border. Badly as
the Cubans may have been treated, we advise


them, however, not to assume an attitude Of


hostility to the United States. They can gain


nothing by it and may lose much. They must
remember that great governments move slowly
and cautiously, and If ours has not done what
was expected, through the accident Of certain
men being in power. there will BE- change by
and by. The hearts of the American people
are with the Cubans, and the bes. thing to be
done is to fight on for independence, and thus


command the recognition of this country aud
the world.


Mr. KIERNAN introduced bills in the As
sembly yesterday providing for the election OF
Supervisors for New York county by Assembly
districts, and the appointment of Police Com


missioners by the Mayor and Board of Alder
men.
Year: 1870

The DEVIL TO PAY In THE Huh. The
Boston Times positively denies the story of
the Post, that disobedient young lady in that
city recently went to a ball with the devil
supposing him to be her lover--and after the
discovery of her terrible mistake committed
suicide. A great many Of the ball-going
class in the Hub have been going ''that way"
for a loug time, and it is not at all a matter Of
surprise that one should be escorted by his
Satanic Majesty to one of those ''dazzling
halls" which first tempt, then fascinate, then
corrupt aud finally DESTROY body and soul.