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Year: 1871

From HooPA.-Expressman John Clifford tells
us that new Indian Agent and commanding
officer have arrived at Fort CASTOR together
with number of other new officers, some of
them having wives. As the streams were up
and the snow deep, we are of the opinion that
some of the ladies just from the States take
this to DE rough country.
Year: 1871

Go AND SEE.-By reference to advertisement
in another column, it will be seen that Prof. L.
Gary, the Astronomical Lecturer, will give an
Entertainment at Washington Hall, this friday
evening. Besides highly interesting lecture
on Astronomy, number of Panoramic and Dis
solving views will be exhibited and explained in
such manner as to combine instruction with
amusement. Professor Cary has with him an
Improved Campbell Telluron," said to be the
greatest invention of the century, and which has
only been exhibited twice in this State, it having
reached him at Red Bluff and been shown in
Shasta for the first time. The Tellurion,"
judging from the various notices and engravings
we have seen of it, is very ingenious piece of
mechanism, and shows plainly the motions and
course of the earth together with the changes of
day and night, and fully explains the cause of
the change of the seasons, which is something
that most of our people have but limited
knowledge of. The various positions of the
earth sun and moon are set forth in practical
manner and in a way that all can understand
in fact, the Tellurion " is a solar system in
miniature, and something which most of us will
never have an opportunity of seeing again. The
admission to the exhibition is placed at only
so cents and we hope to see a good turnout,
thereby showing that the residents of Weaver
vile can appreciate something of higher order
than negro minstrel performance. Prof. Cary
goes North from here into Oregon.
Year: 1871

WEATHER SIGNs.-It is current saying in the
Atlantic States that the ground hog comes out
of his hole every Winter on the second of Feb
ruary and turns himself around. If he sees his
shadow, he goes back to his burrow and maps it
for six weeks, for there will be forty days more
Winter. Again, on the sixteenth of March he
comes out, and if his shadow can be seen, he re-
turns to his nest and takes another suooze for
the next three weeks, for there will be twenty
days more Winter. If, on the contrary upon
either of these days his body casts no shadow,
he remains above ground, for it will be Spring
thenceforward In Ireland, the country people
regard the second of February as indicating the
weather to follow it. We presume there are no
ground hogs in Ireland but the following coup
let according to which the people of that coun-
try guided in relation to the weather, will be
seen to correspond in substance with the ground
hog theory.
Year: 1871




most lamentable occurrence, resulting from
the accidental discharge of q cartridge pocket
pistol, took place on Middle street yesterday
afternoon about o'clock, the effect of which
has plunged two of our most respected families
in incOnsoable grief Two small children,
Willie Cooper and Johnny Stout, the former the
son of Captain George ii. Cooper, United States
Navy, and the latter the son of John Stout,
Esq, bookkeeper of the Bank tof Ports
mouth, obtained possession of a small
single-barrel cartridge pistol a diminutive
weapon, but capable of terrible execution, and
set out to amuse themselves by firing cartridges
about the academy lot. On the Presbyterian
church corner, Willie Cooper attempted to fire
the weapon in the air, and when it was in point
blank range of the face of the little fellow Stout
the chamber exploded and the charge entered
the brain of young Stout Immediately above the
left eye, and he fell back senseless on the pave
ment.


A number of laborers at work in the vicinity
who saw the accident ran to the spot and picked
up the unfortunate child and carried him into
the residence of Judge Watts, where he lay
perfectly comatose for about an hour and then
expired.


The children were very young aud altogether
unconscious of the danger 10 which they ex-
posed themselves in carelessy handling fire
arms. Willie Cooper is nine years old and
Johnny ssout was about thirteen.-NorJoh
Journal, Thursday.
Year: 1871

Very many men have some extra
ordinarily good IDEAS, which they
strive in vain to express. and yetthev
have not the sense to perceive their
sLortcoming, The most experienced
writers are those most aware Of their
own deficiencies for the more
they learn, the more they
see there is still to learn. As to
style and manner of composition. it
is the very thing that comes last.
The true authors are all their lives
learning how TO write.
Tru- ease in writing comes from art. not


chance:


y those move easiest who have Iearn'd


10 dance.
Year: 1871

A NEW TELEGRAPH PoLE.-A new
telegraph pole has been invented which
combines the two valuable properties of
being both useful and ornamental! 1t
is made of iron constructed in hollow
tubes, made in sections, so that in being
shipped one section can be slipped
within another. In pole fifteen feet
in length, the lower section is three
inches in diameter, the second two and
o half, and the third one and quarter
inches This iron pole has insulated
arms, which insures perfect current
of electricity, and is fast superceding
the old fashioned wooden ones.
Year: 1871

LAUNDRY Polish FOR LINEN-Add
to starch made in the usual way IA
small lump of white sugar, or bit of
white wax Of spermaceti, or few thin
shavipgs of white soap and teaspoons
full of salt After the clothes are rinsed
in the blue water, starch them, and dry
on the clothes line; then wringing them
from cold water, roll up tightly, and
let them lie awhile. Iron smoothly in
the usual way. Then place the bosom
or piece to be polished, on a board
with single fold of muslin over it,
pass damp cloth over the linen and
polish with IN iron made for that pur-
pose, such as may be bought at the
hardware or kitchen furnishing stores.
Year: 1871

Under the suggestive heading, "Too
much gas-not enough light" the Scien-
tific American has considerable to say in
relation to the poor gas inflicted upon
US by the New York companies. 1t
says: 1.-The various companies who fur
nish Illuminating gas to the citizens of
New York appear TO think that it is gas


that we want and not light. We have
plenty of the former-at any rate we pay
for enough--but somehow, in cold wealth.
er, the light becomes "small by degrees
and beautifully less" The journal re-
ferred to then has something to say about
the absurdity of paying for gas by the
cubic foot instead of by the volume of light
it affords. The writer says: "What we
want is light, and that is the article we
ought to pay for, and the only correct
measure is the photometer, not the gas
metre. In every other country but this
there is an Inspector appointed whose duty
it is to report upon the candle-power of
the gas furnished by the companies and,
if it is found to be below the prescribed
standard, the delinquent company is COM
PEELED to pay heavy fine. In London the
gas inspector is thoroughly competent
man. appointed by the government, and
beyond the reach of the companies. The
consequence is that in that city the CANDLE
power OF the gas is very much higher than
with us. Some of the London companies
take pride in keeping their gas up to fifteen
candles, which is the maximum required
of them. If gas is to be sold by the cubic
foot then the company may pump in
quantity of atmospheric air, or let it con-
sist of fifty per cent. hydrogen, or make
it of Il low grade on purpose. AS long as
they contract to furnish gas and not light,
they are at liberty to speculate as much
as they please; the lapse is largely our
own for not agreeing with them to give
us light, and not gas. The conclusion
reached is that what we want is to have a
gas of n fixed and known candle-power, to
have an Inspector appointed to. control the
manufacture. and heavy penalties attach
ed for any breach of the law precisely as
it is in London, where the whole business
has long since been reduced to system,
and frauds have rarely been detected. Let
Us have, not peace, but titteen-candle-
power gas"
Year: 1871

Yesterday two well dressed young men
entered the store of Burke, the halter, Full
ton street and Broadway. One of them
asked to look at ielt hat. A number of
hats were produced and laid along the
counter. Among them was very supe-
rior article which the shopman said he
could not sell under SS. After looking at
several hats the young man took off his hat
counter over the SS one He then fitted
a 81 hat and said he thought that would
do. He then took out we'll filled pocket
a book and handed Burke s shopman a two
dollar bill. Then lifting up his own hat
with the So hat inside, he said -


''Say, young fellow, give me some pa
per to wrap my old hat in"


The shopman said, Certainly" and
handed him a newspaper. The young
man wrapped up the parcel, and the two
young men left.


As soon as they were gone, the shop
man put on his hat and followed them sew
eral blocks, until at the corner Of Chambers
street he saw policeman. Then tapping
the young man with the parcel on the arm,
the shopman said -


Excuse me, sir, but think you did not
pay for that hat"


'.Why, of course l did," replied the
young man, taking the hat off his head and
looking at it.


IL don't mean that hat," said the shop
man; II mean the hat you have under
your arm"


Il don't mean your old hat" answered
the shopman, "but the hat inside your old
hat, which you took by mistake. The
price OF that hat, sir, inside the old hat
under your arm, is twenty dollars-paid
at once"


The young man looked at the shopman,
and then at the policeman who stood on
the corner The young man took out his
purse, and with exceeding courtesy hand
ed two ten-dollar bills to the shopman-
Nelc York Sun.
Year: 1871

That the skin Of the Ethiopian is


tolerably secure from change has ever
bee an undisputed fact yet according to
the most recent revelations of science


such is the case no longer. A San
Francisco doctor has discovered a pro-
cess by which a white man can be
transformed into negro, which IS
certainly no less remarkable than that
the African should be converted into a
white man. The surgical operation,
that has become SO common since its re-
cent discovery, Of transplantiog a por.
tion of the skin from some other portion
OF the body, or even from some other
person, to an ulcer, for the purpose Of
starting new growth Of cuticle, vas
performed upon the arm of a white
man Of rs years, and rudy COM
p)exion, the borrowed cuticle having
been taken from the arm of full
blooded negro. The experiment was a
success, 50 far as the ulcer was con-
cerned, but to the horror of the VIC
tim the black skin is spreading rapidly
and the pleasing probability is that he
will soon become negro. OF course
q corresponding operation on a negro
might 60 far toward making him what
our southern friends call "Caucasian." "
Year: 1871

"A colony in Maine was started I
few years since by wealthy man, who
was mora skeptic, and who deter
mined to keep out both rum and re-.
ligon. The place grew but the result
was so bad that now, in starting . new
colony, he has spilled to have church
from the first, Offering to contribute
largely IN its aid. He says that he
cannot keep out rum without the aid
of religion, and without religion he
gets only the worst men to work for
him. He is satisfied that no place can
thrive without the christian church,
ministry, and Sabbath.
Year: 1871

eS The fignres from the Kentucky election
look better, the more they come in. They show
a thorough and strong organization in every
part of the State, and gain since last year of
nearly 10000. A proportionate gain next year.
will give Kentucky to the Republicans, on Presi-
dent, by large majority. The Republican party
don't seem to he crumbling as much as it was
Year: 1871

O KENTUcKY.-TheK Kentucky election was held on
Monday, and resulted, as everybody expected it
would, in a Democratic victory. But there is a
very gratifying feature in the retums-they show
that large Republican vote has been cast in
every part the State, which has not been the
heretofore. The Republicans Of Kentucky are
becoming organized, and are taking firm stand
Throughout the State A continuance of this car
nest work viii increase the Republican strength
and there is ground for hope that even Kentucky,
the hardest State politically in the Union, may
yet become Republican.
Year: 1871

II We are glad to learn that DON CARLOS
nephew is getting $50 to be able" to sit down
again. 1t is two or three days since he has been
kicked ont Of hotel for trying to sponge his grub
Year: 1871




There was great cry, in the Spring, for low
assessments; and probably a majority Of the
Township Trustees were elected upon the prom
ie of putting the valuation down to the lowest pos
sib'e figures. From the looks of the above table,
it would seem that they have ovcrdone it. The
Atch s,n and Nebraska Railroad, valued at $780,
OO has been added since last year assessment, and
yet the total valuation of the County is some $780,
00O less than last year. Every other County shows
tremendous gains in taxableproperty. We know
that our County has improved greatly within the
past year, and yet she shows decrease valuation
lin fact, is the only County in the State that has
apparently gone backward This is all owing to
the mania for low assessments. What is to be
gained by it, we cannot see. We may save a lit
tie on State tax, but that is comparatively light,
this year, under any reasonable valuation. We
have just 50 much money to raise for County and
local purposes, and the rate will be increased in
proportion as the valuation is decreased, NJ that
there will be nothing saved there. And it is very
likely that the State Board of Equalization will
raise on us, after all. We have objection to
light taxes; but we do not like to our County
represented on the down hill grade, when there
is nothing to be gained by il.
Year: 1871

Summer showers frequently overtake per.
sons and " wet them to the skin - it is then
safer to walk steadily and rapidly on until
the clothes become dry again, than to stop
under a shelter and remain there still until
the storm is over. If home is reached while
the clothing is yet wet, take some hot drink
instantly, pint or more; 60 to the kitchen
fire, remove every garment, rub the whole
body with coarse towel or flannel, put on
wooden underclothing get into bed, wrap up
warm, and take another hot drink then 60
to sleep, if at night; if in the daytime, get
up in an hour, dress, and be active for the re-
mainder of the day. Suppose you sit still, in
the damp clothing; in few minutes chilli
ness is observed, the cold strikes in,' and
next morning there is violent cold, or an
attack Of pleurisy, or pneumonia which, it
not fatal in week, often requires weeks and
months and weary years to get rid of. The
short. sharp rule should be, if the clothing
gets wet, change instantly, or work or walk
actively, briskly, until perfectly dry.-HaH's
Journal of Health.
Year: 1871

W Near Sacramento, at the base Of GER.
tain hill, there lay for years an immense
boulder provokingly in the way Of every
team that assembled or descended. 1t was al
most impossible to avoid it, and frequent coll
lisions with it awoke many profane ejacula-
ton. AT last teamster, more angry than
usual, undertook to turn il over and out Of
the way This cost him much labor, but 10 !
when overturned just beneath il was large
and valuable nugget of gold. Many trial
and hindrance in life, if we would take the
pains to overcome it, would leave US all the
richer for the effort We must slay the lion,
If we would afterward find the nest of honey
there. Every temptation is bat one more
opportunity to triumph. Cares and troubles
are but clouds and storms that may lend a
richer hue to the sereneness that will follow,
Out of the alembic always should be distilled
purity. 1t is possible to extort some good
from every evil, some JOY from all woes, some
gain from every loss.
Year: 1871

herself TO death to prepare him for place in
your store, or that Of some other good man"


And she shall not work in vain" replied
the merchant


Both turned at ancc, repaired to the widows
room, and the merchant engaged the lad in
his store. Now he is partner with him in
thriving business aud all from that one act
of good breeding. We leave of as we began.
Few Of you children who walk our streets
have the iaintest conception of the number of
persons who are observing you, and are really
taking an interest in you. By and by, per.
haps, you may get some faint idea Of it when
you aspire to enter life as one Of US. Then
if you are Que Of those who have been winning,
day by day golden opinions, doors will open
perhaps, quicker and wider than you expect
ed - Boston Transcript
Year: 1871

Go AND SEE.-Mr. Emanuel Phillips, our en-
terprising young neighbor, always alive to the
necessities of his numerous customers, las re-
Gently malo important additions to bis already
extensive stock of goods, and is offering the
same ut prices to suit thetimes in proof of which
We have only to refer TO his advertisement III
another column of our paper, where partial
enumeration and price list of some Of his goods
will be found.


We recommend those re4uiriog anything in
his line to give his advertisement an attentive
perusal, then call nnd examine his select stock.
Year: 1871

TAxPAlERs, NorlcE!-Thc assessment of tax
es Oh the property in the Parish of st. Landry
will commence OH the LIST Of August, and con
Time to the LIST of September. This assessment
will take place at the Recorders office, by the
Sheriff, Recorder, and Clerk of the Dist. Court
according to law. Those interested w"uld do
we'll therefore to call before the lat of Sept"n.
ber in order to revise their assessment. other
wise they will forfeit their right of doing so after
that date, and will be compelled to pay the tax
imposed, whether just or unjust.
Year: 1871

Supreme couftz'"nuary ;sz!y Term


p. Langford, Abby s. Marshal


and William r. Marshall, appellants


vs.. The Board Of County Commission
ers Of the county Of Ramsey, respon
dents.


SLLABUS.


When the State constitution declares
':private property shall not be taken fol
public use without just compensation
therefor first paid or secured" but con.
tains no express provision as to the
mode in which the compensation to be
paid shall be determined, it is presumed
that the trainers of the Constitution
intended to leave that subject to the
discretion Of the Legislature to be regu-
lated in such manner as might be pres
cribcd by law. But it is not to be
understood that the discretion vested
in tho Legislature is an unlimited one.
Where private property is taken for
public use in ordinary cases, and the
Constitution prescribcs no particular
mode in which the compensation for the
property taken shall be ascertaincd as
to the question of compensation, the
owner Of the property has right to
require that an impartial tribunal be
provided for its determination and the
government is bound, in such cases to
provide such tribunal, before which
both parties may meet and discuss their
claims on equal terms.


An act of :he Legislature, which
authorizes the taking of private proper
ty for the purposes of a State road, ap-
pointing three commissioners, private
citizens, without the consent of the per-
son whose land is taken, and authoriz-
ing them, or a majority Of them, to do
termine the compensation due to tho
land owner, but requiring no notice of
the proceedings before the commission
ers, nor making any provision that the
land owners may appear at any stage
Of the proceedings for any purpose,
does not provide just or equitable
mode of determining the compensation
due to citizen for property taken for
public use, and is unconstitutional and
void.
Year: 1871

Professionalism and Popery-thc first
bold effort to crush religious liberty, by
personal violence. We say. LET IT DE
THE LAST! Let it never be said that
the despotic rule Of Catholic intolcr-
ancc has been permitted to gain foot.
hold in this country, SO firmly, as to be
able to place its iron heel on the nccks
of those who refuse to bow in submis-
sion to its mandates. There is no pun
ishmcnt known to the law, too severe to
he inflicted on tho Ribbon men of New
York city. Let it be mctcd out at
once.


1t is but justice to add, that the
leaders Of the Catholic church, Priests
and Bishops, are in no way responsible
for the riot, and oxcrtcd their influence
at last to prevent it.
Year: 1871

The Register has a new way of
keeping up an appearances of doing bust.
ness. It's last issue contained three or
four old mortgage sales, the time of sal g
having passed, and these were all in
serted twice, once on the inside and
once on the outside of the paper.
Year: 1871

"Dandy Jim," as the present quill


diver Of the Register is now iamiliarly


called, made very diluted attempt last


eek to "cxplain away" his rebel agent


and Brownsville correspondent. In


doing this he slipped his diminutivc


pedestal into tho very trap he was try


ing to avoid. He says he likes repent
ant rebels but has no sympathy with
those who still cherish southern feel
ings and s,u'pathiso with the "Lost
Cause If this statement of our little
quill driver is true, then he must enter
tain most intense dislike of the i @ =
ant agent Of the Register aforesaid, for
he is one of those rebel soldiers, who


has never changed his sentiments re-
garding the war, who under like circuu,-
stances would be as ready as ever to
shoot union soldiers, who believes the
war to break up the government was
just, and who "acccpts the situation"
only because he is compelled to do SO.
These facts VIC have from prominent
citizens Of Brownsville who have con-
verscd with the reformed rebel" and
whose word is beyond dispute and who
are ready to produce any amount Of tcsti-
mony on the point if necessary. There
seems to be remarkable fitness in these
associations which are clustering around
the Register since it ceased to belong to
the Republican party, 1t is said that
"Dandy JIM himself was an ardent
sympathiscr with the south during the
war, believed in the right of secession
and took large stock in Now York
Democracy, and that accepting the situa-
ton he now occupies he is pleased to
find SO many kindred spirits among the
Democrats and rebel soldiers, and is
entirely satisfied that the Register is
only hybrid concern-a cross between
what was once the Austin ring and
Mower county Democracy. For the
purpose of deception it keeps up faint
show Of being Republican but hereafter,
as in the past, the aid of its little inau-
enco will be given to the Democracy.
Year: 1871

In speech at Cincinnati on Wed
nesday Of last week, Gen. j d Cox, who
was recently Secretary of the Interior,
said that an army of one hundred thous
and soldiers would not be sufficient to
put in force the Kuklux bill which has
just passed the House of Representatives
General Cox thinks it is impossible to
restore peace and quiet at the South by
any amount of military force, so long a.
measures are agitated in Congress and
discussed in the press which are calcula


ted to irritate the Southern people and
make them diseontented and restless.
General Cox misapprebends the real
nature of the K1klux bill It's essential
design is not to restore peace and quiet
at the South, and to allay discomfort and
disorder. This is only an incidental and
comparatively unimportant part of the
business. The first purpose OF suspend
ing the civil law in that part of the eoun
try and sending down soldiers, is to force
the Republicans of those States to ap
point delegates to the approaching
National Convention of that party who
will be in favor OF the denomination of
Grant. Next, the elections there are to
be controlled by military means, so that
the electoral votes of these States will be
secured for Grant, whatever may be the
wishes of the majority of their citizens
To carry out these designs, General Cox
can very well understand that an army of
one hundred thousand men will not be
required. Probably force of twenty
thousand will suffice But if the next
President should happen to be chosen in
that way, how will the rest of the coun-
try like it And what will General Cox
say and do then ?