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Year: 1871

A new imposition has been laid upon the
Chinese in California, in the form of an enact
ment forbidding their carrying baskets on the
street. As this is the only method they have
OF transpOsing their wares, of course blow is
struck at their trade which amounts to sheer
prosecution and nothing less. They have been
in the habit of selling vegetables from door to
ed to either end of long pole, and balanced
upon the shoulder. BY this custom house
keepers have been greatly accommodated, and
through it many Cinnamon found their sole
means of support Now the petty tyranny OF
an unjust law interpOscs and any unfortunate
heather found upon the streets with his ba, kei
is whisked off to the lookup.
Year: 1871

CoURT.-The Session of District Court
has continued during the week. The case
OF Parsons goes over until the next term,
at the request of his attorney An aplica-
ton for writ of habeas corpus in his case
was refused BY Judge Rosborough.. The
case of All Ying clme up on new trial or
dered by the Supreme Court, and resulted
in verdict of guilty at the hands of the
jury. The Judge will sentence him to-
day and fix the time for his execution.
In the Powers Wheatlsy case, motion was
made BY defe1dant's attorneys for new
trial
Year: 1871

SENTENCED.-Justice Knox sentenced
the sportive duck who stole Hartman's coat
to fifty days Imprisonment, which was as
good thing as the thief wanted, as he
thereby obtains plenty of grub and has
nothing to do. We need law authoriz-
ing somebody to attach ball and chain to
the leg Of such chaps and make them earn
their board and work out their sentence BY
saving the wood for the Court House or
repairing the public roads.
Year: 1871

NEW DIGGINGs-It has been so long
since we have written the above words,
once so familiar to California scribblers,
that they really appear new to us. But
nevertheless "new diggings" have been
struck at this late day, and right here in
old Shasta County at that. On Saltsman's
Gulch, a few miles from Piety Hill, very
rich placer diggings were discovered few
days ago, and the ground in that vicinity
has already been staked off into claims.
The ground generally is from six to twenty
five inches in depth and prospects well
from the surface to the!bed rock, from two
to five cents being obtained from every
painful of dirt washed
Year: 1871

JEwELRY.-E Levin has lately re-
turned from San Francisco With a large
assortment Of new jewelry and other arti-
cles in his line which he requests us to
say will be sold very cheap.
Year: 1871

Farm work during the hot sum-
mer months, requires only the light
est harness. Wooden collars are
now used with great comfort to the
horse.
In the city of New York the har-
ness worn by the street railroad
horses is as scant as is consistentent
Gith the work they have to perform
No breeching is USED, and hip-straps
are dispensed with. Teams may
often be seen plowing in the same
harness they wore during the win
ter.


This unnecessary, nay sometimes
it amounts to positive cruelty. Re-
move every superduous strap, take
away the backstrap and crupperband
and let the air circulate freely
around the body. At night when
work is over, wash the sweat and
dust from the legs and thighs of
the horse; a dash OF water on his
legs and fianks would be grateful to
him, Let his stable be airy and
clean, with a bed of clean straw.
Kindness to these serviceable ami
mails is the truest economy. Be
sides, we feel better when car
horses are made comfortable; the
sensation is akin to that derived
from the doing of benevolent ac-
| tion.


A sensitive man cannot see a
horse sweating under and CALLED by
a heavy harness during the intense
heat of a summers day, without
sympathy and pity, nor can he re-
tire to rest with an easy conscience,
knowing that his faithful servants
in the stable are improperly cared
for and suffering.


The righteous man regardeth the
life of his beast
Year: 1871

All really great and honest men
may be said to live three lives.
There is one life which is seen and
accepted By. the world at large,-a
mans outward life, there is a second
life which is seen by mans init
mate friend,-his household life;
and there is third life, seen only
by the man himself, and by Him
who searcheth the heart, which may
be called the inner or heavenly
ffa
Year: 1871

Twenty-seven years agoa young
and interesting couple were married
in one of the principal villages OF
Queens county, n. Y. ...


The bride had been the belle of
the village, and the groom, one and
all said, would yet hold a command
ing position in his county. Time
passed, but for some unknown cause
the young married people did not
prosper. u.


At length the California fever
broke out Our young friend, i'm
bued with the idea that his fortune
could be made in the new country,
left his young wife and his two
children for the then unknown Ell
dorado. A few letters and the wife
lost track of her husband.


For four years she waited and
mOurned, and then for the sake of
her children, who needed protector
and education, she accepted another
husband. The new family. have
been moderately prosperous. AL
though not possessing large
amount of this worlds goods they
had enough to make live pleasant.
The son and daughter were educat-
ed at the best schools, and if the
wife thought of her lost husband at
times she was not unhappy with
her new one. rr.4-1 4a -...


On Monday an arrival of more
than passing importance to this
family was announced in the village,
and soon the former husband and
father presented himself to his as
tonished wife. He made no recrim-
nations, took all the blame on him
self, and made known his determin-
alton not to interfere with the pres
ent domestic arrangements, and to
Immediately leave, but before doing
so he wished to make proper ae-
acknowledgement, which he did by
over to his son and daught-
er large amount of property.


1t appears that on his first
arrival in California he had
been unfortunate in all his under
takings, and not wishing to write
discouragingly, he concluded not to |
write at all. .....s t... I'D.


Later he was successful beyond
his fondest hopes, but delayed his
departure from time to time until |
shame forbade his return. He has
since left and the tenor of life in
that quiet household now flows on
as before.
Year: 1871

Pare and lay in ice water half an
hour. Cut lengthwise and lay in
ice-water ten minutes longer. Wipe
each piece dry with a soft cloth,
sprinkle with pepper and salt, and
dredge with flour. Fry to delicate
brown, in sweet, clarified drippings,
nice lard or butter.
Year: 1871

An old bachelor compares life to a
shirt button, because it so often
hangs by thread.


Because Il tanner tans skins and
hides, it is not safe to infer that he
cannot be found as easily as anyone
else. ........
Year: 1871

A writer in Good Health says that the
average weight, all the year round, offhat
portion Of a wonan's clothing which is
supported from the waist is between ten
aud fifteen pounds, and if woman were
sentenced to carry such weight about
in this state for a number Of year,, for
some great crime, the sentence would BE
pronounced inhuman. sxse
Year: 1871

At Juvenile party young gentle
man about seven years old kept himself
from the rest of the company. The lady
of the house called to him: "Come and
play and dance, my dear. Choose one Of
those pretty girls for your wife" .Not
likely y cried the young cynic. "No
wife for me Do you think want 10 be
worried out of my life, like poor papai"
Year: 1871

apply in this instance, because these i'm


ported Chinese are not immigrants 10 the


legal sense Of the word nor are they in


the sense our forefathers understood il, any


more than were the negroes who were i'm


ported from Africa One was a slave for


life, the other for period Of years II was


the labor Of the negro then it is the labor


Of the Chinese now. This plea of cheap


labor was the foundation stone of African
slavery, as it is of cOOlie importation and
slavery now. As the boy said, sit is all
the same thing, only spelled differently"
1t is slavery, and not immigration The
laws of nations, the laws of our country,
the laws Of God, and the precepts of justice
give Us the unqualified right to suppress
the slave trade-to prohibit slavery and the
purchase of men or their toll and labor, as
slaves, whether for life or term of years.
If they can be hired for five or ten years as
slaves-if the principle ia right-then they
can be imported and hired out here for
fifty years, or during their natural lives.
Civilization and humanity forbid such pro
oeedings.


Importing labor from pagan country,
and paying for il, is quite a different thing
to employing Christian artisans and labor
ers at home and paying them. The laws
Of God and man sanction the latter and
forbid the former. The sophistries Of cap
ltalists and those who encourage impOrta-
ton cannot make this great wrong right
Believing God to be just, think that if
a curse ever followed nation by His com
mand for its sins, it will follow US if we do
not put stop to this evil.


It is an historical fact that to New Eng
land belongs the glory or the shame Of be-
ing the first to import pagan Africans for
the sake of their labor ; it is equally true
that New Englanders we're the first to i'm
port pagan Asiatics for the sake Of their la
Dor. Being perfectly clear that Chinese
labor as it is now organized here is nothing
short Of slavery that it is a most fiagrant
and outrageous injustice to American labor
and upon the rights Of our workingmen
that If not checked it will subvert and work
an entire revolution in our labor system,
and reduce our laborers and their families
to penury and wretchedness and believing
as l do that Congress has full power, and
that it is its duty, to act promptly, | hope
that the Committee on Foreign Affairs, IN
whose custody my .esOlution now Is, will
at the earliest moment possible report a
bill prohibiting any and all further imPorta-
ton Of Chinese; forbidding any Chinese
to come to our country except as travellers
passing through the same, or as merchants
ID limited numbers, under certain restrlc-
tons, and to be located only at designated
ports


As to the Chinese now here, not under
contract, require them to leave the country
within a reasonable time, under severe pen
alties As to those here under contract,
give them three months after the expiration
thereof to quit our shores forever, under
penalty Of having their cues cut of close
to their shoulders
Year: 1871

To RAISE A BLISTER SPEEDILY.-A
piece Of lint dipped into vinegar Of Can
tharides, and Immediately after its aPPica-
ton to the skin, covered over with piece
Of strapping to prevent evaporation.


TREACLE BEER.-BOil half pound Of
hops with fourteen pounds Of treacle in
tbirty-six gallons Of water, for one hour
then strain the wort, and add, when nearly
cold, balf pint Of yeast the next day it
NAV be put into a cask or bottled.


FAMILY Om--Oil Of sweet almonds one
gill spermaceti, quarter Of an ounce.
Melt them together over the fire, first
breaking the sPermaeeti into very small
pieces. When cold, stir 10 few drops Of
bergamot, rubbed up with half grain of
civit.


GRIDDLE CAKEs.-One quart Of milk,
three eggs two if scarce, tablespoon
full Of butter, two tablespoonfuls Of home
made yeast, -four enough for griddle-cake
batter. Set over night.


RICE BREAD.-A pint Of boiled rice, a
little salt, flour and milk enOugh b to make
the rice stick smoothly together. Fry on
a griddle in rounds the size Of large
plate, and an inch thick, and serve one at q
time.
Year: 1871

ing. The company have erected capae-
lous factory on their own property in South
oan Francisco. The silk business is the
most lucrative in the world when well
managed. The executive ability displayed
Dy those connected with the undertaking
affords guarantee of success. Our wealthy


men should have no hesitation in adding


great stability to this desirable enterprise
IN our midst, from which already other ben
ehcial industries are starting"
Year: 1871

meaning; but with the assistance OF q friend VINO
lately had an opportunity OF conversing with the
Prince de Joinyie at Brussels, am led to believe
the Prince means in substance ths:-It Is pity that
universal suffrage was Introduced too precipltatey


but il Is now impossible TO do away with the name


our hope that IL VIII work well in the future must
be founded upon the spread OF education among
the people, and in the meantime some means
must be found OF excluding the most
grossly Ignorant from the exercise OF IT, In short,
the Prince contempla,es new law of May 81,
which, though IN fact 1t enormously limited the
number OF electors, professed not to destroy nni-
versal suffrage. The Prince, who has been q good
republican ticket provided always that the
soverci0nty or the nation should be reserved, IN
CASE after rejection, monarchy should he thought
more desirable. These specnlations however, are
not now much upon the cards, because owing to the
unexpected attitude assumed by NJ. Tmers, the
Orleanist campaign has been complete fiasco.''
Year: 1871

Congress having just amended the Bankrupt
law so that nearly ali parties can bo discharged
from their debts unobstructed by the fifty per
cent clause so-callod, another opportunity offers
to secure the benefits Of this most effective and
permanent measure of rcliof The aboye-named
will make bankrupt business a specially; will
procure discharges on the most moderate terms


and transact all business in that line ut prices
which cannot fail to be satisfactory. Being Uni
ted States Commissioner he will endcavor to visit
the different counties on court days, and thus
save parties the trouble and expense of several


trips to Alexandria in beginning and proceeding
with their cases. Discharges can be obtained
here before Register Hill as promptly rs in Rich
mond or elsewhere, and at much less expense to
parties. 1t may be added that the Bankrupt act,
in connection with the Homestead exemption,
which it is now beloved will be secured to the
bankrupt under the bankrupt law, is the on ly real
relief now offered TO parties struggling i'll the
hopeless bondage of old debts. Address person.
ally or by letter at No. y south Royal street,
Alexandria, Va jy lG-ly
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connublal
hanpiness Indeed, without these the Journey
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness ot
another is bliphted with our own.
Year: 1871

We have put into our Mills all the Ia
test and Best Machinery, that we may be
enabled to give as Fine an Article of
Flour, and as much Of it, as any other
Establishment South of Mason and Dix:
on's line.


Besides GRINDING WHEAT, we de-
sign putting into our Mills good RICE
CLEANER. And wofnrthermore Thresh
and Clean Wheat, and Pack Cotton.


So Soon as the Toll Season is over, we
shall go into the regular FIGURING
BUSINESS FOR MARKET.


And we would say to all parties living
convenient to Railroad who may send us
their Wheat to grind, that wo will haul
the same to and from the Depot in Gran
iteville free nf charge; and for every
Five Bushels of sound. and clean Wheat,
will return One Barrel of as good Flour
as the Wheat will possibly make.
All our Different Grades of FLOUR,
MEAL, GR1TS, &C., will always be Is
Good as the Best and rs Low as the Low
est.


Trusting to our Thorough Practical
Experience in this line of business, and
promising our best efforts to give univer-
sal satisfaction, we respectfully solicit for
the MECHANICS MILLS the patronage
of the public.


DorNNEp AparrD


July so If 81
Year: 1871

OK Monday last the New York Iritune
completed its thirtieth year. The occa-
sion is made by its editor the subject of a
retrospective article, from which we learn
that it was originally small folio sheet,
and that about twenty persons were en-
ployed in its publication at a cost of about
$525 per week. 1t isnow as large as any
paper published, employs from four to FIVE
hundred persons. and costs nearly S20,-
600 every week. Each issue contains
matter enough to make a duodecimo vol
ume of fair size, such as is usually sold at
one dollar and a quarter. The present
editor of the T'ribunc was its original pro-
prietor, and is still its chief editor, though
only part proprietor. OF those who aid
ed in the first. issue of the paper, only two
are known to be still living, and they are
also still employed in the Office. This is
the historical part of the article in the
Tribune, and unconsciously, perhaps, is a
very high compliment to the ability of the
distinguished gentleman who has so long
been its chief.
Year: 1871

A writer in Scribner's Monthly uses
the following strong language, which will
be responded to by the women who have
suffered all over the land:


OF the worst foes that woman has ever
had to encounter wine stands at the head
The appetite for strong drink in man has
spoiled the lives of more women and ruin :
ed more hopes for them, scattered more
fortunes for them, brought to them more
shame, sorrow and hardship than any other
evil of their lives. The country numbers
tens Cf thousands-Day, hundreds of thou
sands-of women VINO are widows to-day,
and sit in hopeless weeds because their
husbands have been slain by strong drink.
There are hundreds of thousands of homes
scattered all over the land, in which wo-
men live lives of torture, going through
all the changes of suffering that lie be-
tween the extremes of fear and despair,
because those whom they love, love wine
better than they do the women they have
sworn to love.


There are women by the usands who
dread to hear at the door the step that
once thrilled them with pleasure, because
that step has learned to reel under the in
fuence of the seductive poison. There are
women groaning with pain while we write
these words, from bruises and brutalities
inflicted by husbands made mad with drink.
There can be no exaggeration in any state
ment made in regard to this matter, be-
cause no human imagination can create
anything worse than the truth, and no pen
is capable of portraying the truth. The
sorrows and horrows Of wife with a
drunken husband, or mother with a
drunken son are IS near the realization OF
,hell as can be reached in this world. at
least. The shame, the Indignation, the
sense of disgrace for herself and ber child
rem, the poverty and not unfrequently the
beggary. the fear and the fact of violence,
the lingering. lifelong struggle and de-
spair of countless women with drunken
husbands. are enough to MAKE allwomen
curse wine. and engage unitedly TO oppose
lit everywhere. as the worst enemy oftlieir
Year: 1871

Be frank with the world. Frankness
is the child of honesty and courage. Say
what you mean to do on every occasion,
and take it for granted that you mean to
do just what is right. If a friend ask you
favor, you should grant it. if it is sreasona-
BILE if it is not, tell him plainly why you
cannot You will wrong him and wrong
yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Never do a wrong thing to make friend
or keep one; the man who requires you to
do so is dearly purchased, and at a sacri-
fee. Deal kindly and firmly with all men,
and you will find it the policy which wears
the best. Above all, do not appear to
others what you are not. If you have any
fault 20 find with any one, tell him, not
others, of what you complain. There is
no more dangerous experiment than that
of undertaking to do one thing to mans
face and arother behind his back. We
should live. act and speak out of doors, as
the phrase is. and say and do what we are
willing should be known by all men. 1t
is not only best as matter of principle,
but as matter of policy.
Year: 1871

There can be no greater blessing than
to be borne in cheerful, loving home. 1t
not only insures happy childhood-but
almost makes sure a virtuous and happy
manhood, and fresh, young heart in old
age. think it every parents duty to
try to make their ehildren's childhood full
of love and proper joyousness and nesar
see children destitute of them, through
the proverty, faulty tempers, or wrong
notions of parents, without a heart-ache.
Not that all the appliances wealth can buy
are necessary to the free and happy un-
folding of childhood in body or heart
quite otherwise, heaven be thanked. But
children must at least have love in the
house, and flesh air and good play, and
some good companionship out of it. other
wise young life runs great danger of with
ering or growing stunted or sour, or at best
prematurely old and turned inward on it.
self. rr f-
Year: 1871

Major McCafferty, the well-known Irish
Lawyer at Worcester, recently made Q
speech at temperance meeting, WHICH IS
thus reported:


He said no man should be moderate
drInker for two reasons first, on account
of its expense secondly. on account of
the liability to become a drunkard. 1t
was every mans duty to acquire property
sufficient to leave his children we'll off, but
this could not be done if they spent it for
drink. BY saving every day only what a
man who calls himself moderate drinker
spends for ale or other liquor, a young
man of twenty could, in thirty years OF ac-
tive life, easily lay up $4,000. 1t was
this amount which every moderate drink
er should consider he was foolishly was
ting, if he expected to reach the age OF
fifty years The speaker presented vast
array of other figures and arguments. con
elusive and to the point, to show the bene-
fits of total substinuence. and the evils of
indulgence in liquor. The ladies were
called upon as more responsible parties
than the men in this case, to exert their
influence by signing the pledge and other
wise.
Year: 1871

On Wednesday night Mr.. Avery ID Put
nam, well-known and highly respected
merchant, of New Y ork, entered Seventh
avenue car to ride home. His attention
was attracted by an intoxicated man stand
ing on the front platform and behaving in
a rude manner to two ladies sitting near
the front end of the car. He shut the
| door and the drunken man opened it.
| Again he shut it and again the door was
| opened. After this process had been re-
peated several times, Mr.. Putnam went
outside, shut the door behind him and
held it with his hand The conductor
came out soon after and asked the drunk
en- man why he wished to have the door
open. He replied that he wished TO go
into the car. The conductor told him to
do so, and Foster. for that was his name,


entered and sat down opposite the ladies


he had been annoying. MIR. Putnam also


returned and took seat by the side OF


Foster When the car reached Forty


sixth street, Mr. Putnam and the two la
dies, went to the rear platform to alight.
| The gentleman was already in the street


and had helped out one of the ladies, when
Foster rushed round side of the the car and
struck heavy blow upon the head of Mr..
Putnam with club or slung-shot. The
ladies screamed, crowd collected, the
ruffian escaped and the conductor started
up the car. Mr.. Putnam was taken to
hospital, where he died early on Saturday
morning. Foster was arrested the same
night at his fathers house, and after the
usual conflict of authority between the po-
lice justice and the coroner, was lodged in
jail, where he now lies. He is the son of
wealthy parents, who long since cast him
off for his dissolute habits. He had been en-
ployed as conductor by the Seventh Av-
enue Company for the past month, but
had been off duty tor several days before
the murder.