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Year: 1871

BINGHAM YOUNG AND HIS ONE HUNDRED
AND SIXTY W1vEs.-Old Brigham Young
has been indicted and arrested for having
one hundred and sixty wives, and especially,
We suppose, for being on good terms with
all of them. We look on the whole pro-
ceeding as being humbug of the first water
Young is q Christian. by profession, and
claims that he is worshpping God. with his
spiritual wives, according to the dictates
of his own conscience" and following in the
footsteps of King David who was, as we are
told in Holy Writ, man after Gods own
heart Young has the Constitution and the
Bible on his side, and it is by no means
clear, if he claims his wives as part Of his
religion, that hc can be "prohibited the free
exercise thereof" This is the language Of
the Constitution, and Congress has no power
to determine what is religion. Seriously
Utah is becoming populous and must soon
become State, and lot Of squirts like TolG
Fitch and Gov. Wood have got in there and
are playing for notoriety in the hope of get
ting to be United States Senators from the
new State Fitch has taken Brigham Young g
side, hoping for Mormon support, while
Wood is working for Gentle support; and
that is about all there is in this polygamy
squabble. Young will not be convicted, or
if be is, he will get off with some paltry fine,
and that will be the end of It.
Year: 1871

we are Informed that j. H. Nef, Senator
elect from this county, told the Chairman Of
the Democratic County Central Committee,
w. NJ. Crutcher, just before the election,
that if elected one of his first official acts
would be to introduce bill to reduce the
rates Of freights and fares on the railroads.
The resolutions Of both the Republican and
Democratic County Conventions declared for
and pledged their candidates to this action in
the event of their election. In this act Sen
ator Ncff will have the support Of nine-tenths
Of all our people of all parties, and we trust
his bill will be so drawn as to reach and en-
force the real object desired. Section 81 Of
the act passed May Goth, 1861, is the only
section that requires amendment to reach the
desired object. 1t reads az follows:


SEC 81 1t shall be unlawful for any such rail-
road company to charge more than ten cents per
mile for each passenger, and fifteen cents per
mile for each tun of freight transported on its
road; and for every transgression Of such limita-
ton, the company shall be liable to the party
suffering thereby treble the entire amount OF
fare, or freight, so charged to such party; pro-
ridsd that in no case shall the company be re-
quired to receive less than twenty-five cents for
any one lot of freight for any distance.


Strike out the word "ten" for passengers,
and insert the word "three," and the word
"fifteen" for freight, and insert "fve," or
any other equitable sum, and the object is
accomplished. The penalties in the section
should be made more severe and certain; but
even as they now are, the company probably
would not violate them. In this matter
Senator Neff will find plenty Of support. 1t
will not do to say in such bill, " the right
to charge and receive - is hereby granted"
etc., or that when the net earnings Of the
road amount to specified sum, then the
rates shall not exceed, etc., as the former
would be grant, and irrepealable, and the
other nulity, as the company would take
care that there were no net earnings. Such
provisions would be infinitely worse than no
change at all.
Year: 1871

WE BELIEVE IT.-The Sacramento Re
cord, paper that should be well posted OF
the acts of the railroad managers, asserts
that that company did do all that it could
for the election Of Booth and the Republican
ticket, and that, without their aid, he would
have been as badly beaten as was Gorham
in 1867. The Record further tells the Union
rather plainly that so far as its influence
went, it could not have changed the result,
and that Booth is under no obligations to it.
This is the substance of what the Record
says, as we understand it. We believe the
Record is right, so far as the action of
the railroad is concerned, and that if it
had sent its agents to all its eight thou
sand employees with command that they
should vote for Haight, that he would have
been elected; that is, if this had been done
privately, as it was for Booth. To the
Union, we believe, belongs the credit, if it
is any credit as matters now stand, of nomi-
mating Booth. Thus honors stand abou,
even between the Union and the railroad
company. and Booth is equally indebted to
both. And now, what will Booth do? He
cannot please both, and one of the parties
is sold. We hope it i, the company and we
fear it is the Union. Booth never said be
would veto a subsidy bill; he never said he
would use the power of his administration to
reduce the rates Of fare ard freight; and his
last and greatest indebtedness is to the mo-
nopoly-that of his election.
Year: 1871

The party press has had so much to say
about the change of school books that it is
hard for the general reader and persons not
directly engaged in educational pursuits to
decide who is right and who wrong. That
all may see the list of prices of the old series
of books and the new ones, we give them
below;
Year: 1871

Tuy PLACER HERALD consoles itself with the
fact that some of the Democratic candidates fol-
county offices in Placer run ahead Of the State
ticket-Mdrin Journal


It is, indeed, a matter of consolation that
many Republicans of this county had the
intelligence to see, and the honesty to vote
for the best men for office
Year: 1871

The Shakers are well-known bu,


exceedingly quiet, Industrious,


thrifty people, more intent upon
enjoying their. faith than making
converts to it, and ambitious to
preserve their principles and prac-
tices in their original purity, than
to improve and adapt them TO the
present state Of the world. Their
peculiar manners and fashions have
been ridicuIed, and some Of their
customs are open to serious criti-
cism; but their honest dealing,
temperance, purity, and inoffsn-
siveness are above al praise. No
prison bolt has ever turned upon q
and the civil law has never
laid a hand upon member Of that
fraternity
Year: 1871


of movement was the chief end at.
tanned, and they danced to the sound
OF the harp, Tyre, guitar, pipe and
tamborinc, and in the streets even
to the drum. According to Wilkin-
son, primitive form Of the modern
ballad, and especially the step OF
the pirouette, delighted an Egyptian
party upwards of three thousand
five hundred ycara ago. Their dres
SOS were transparent, and sometimes
they appear to have danced entirely
naked. The dance was often sup
plemcnted by gymnastics, tended
towards a species Of pantomimc and
dumb show.
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
most NECESSARY requisites to promote connubial
hanpincss Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect prospect hourly darkens to the view the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and hIlcd with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is hlirhted with our own.
Year: 1871

The postmaster at - Lake, Wis: wants TO
sell internal revenue stamps on COMMISSION az
the following letter received from hlm at the
Internal Revenue Office in relation to that mat
ter will show:
Year: 1871

In Seville, which is popularly supposed
to be in Spain, there is in use most fe
licitous invention 10 the way Of making
love, clandestinely. After dark, Young
cabelleros steal beneath their lady's lat.
tice--which, percbance, is in the third
story-and softly unscrewing the handle
OF their walking sticks, proceed to ex-
tract from the same, which are hollow,
length after length of hollow tubing,
screwing them together after the fashion
of japanese fishing pole, or the old APP
paratus wherewith sweeps clean chin
nies. A mouthpiece is fitted into each
end and one raised to the window above.
Soon, by the aid of this improvised
speaking tube, two souls with certain
unanimity of thought, and two hearts
with possible unison or pulsation, are
softly communing. Now all this is very
nice, seductively romantic, and all that
sort of thing, but mark what the knowl-
edge of il brought to certain youth Of
Baltimore.


He had read OF it, or heard Of it, and
happening to have surreptitious affsc-
tion for a young and wealthy lady,
which she as surreptitiously reciproca-
ted, he determined, with her conniyance,
to avail himself of it. He got a tin
pipe Of desired length, made by a timer,
and in each end of it placed, for want of
better mouthpiece, a funnel. Delicious
conversation went on, he sitting on the
top of a water-barrel and she leaning
from window above. They would con
verse for hours, and exchange all the
soft nonsense in the world, and then he
would unship his apparatus, put the fun
nels in his pocket, wrap the pieces in a
newspaper, and go home in a condition
of ETHEREAL bliss. The course of true
love never did run smooth, and one even
ing, the old gentleman, smoking in the
back garden at an unusual hour, saw the
young gentleman arrive, fix up his ap-
paratus, and commence his soul commu-
ming operations. He made up his mind
in minute. He went into the kitchen
and asked for a pitcher of boiling water :;
it was handed to him and off he posted
up stairs. Just as he reached his daugh-
terls door be commenced calling 10 her
So telling her lover 20 wait moment,
she came TO the door, "Nelle, my dear.
run up to my room ard get my speca-
cles; rll wait here till you come down"
She disappeared up stairs and lie stole
cautiously to the window. The moment
he touched the funnel, the amorous and
unsuspecting youth clapped it to his
mouth TO resume where he had lett Off
''my darling, you cannot imagine how"
Just then the old gentleman commenced
assiduously filling the funnel with hot
water, and the rest of the miserable
youths sentence was never heard. lie
wore flour on his face for a fortnight at
ter, and declines to go into society just
at present.
Year: 1871

We heard pretty little incident the
other day, which we cannot help relat
ing A young lady from the South, it
sician living in California. When the
engagement was made, the doctor was
rich, having been very successful in San
Francisco. 1t had not existed six
months, however, when, by unfortunate
investment, he lost his entire cheap"
This event came upon him, il should be
added, just as he was making ready to
claim his bride. What does he do {?
Why, like an honest and chiyalrous
young fellow, as he is, he sits down and
writes the young lady every particular
OF the unhappy change that has taken
place in his fortunes, assuring her that,
If the fact produced any change in her
feelings toward him, she was released
from every promise she had made to him.
And what does the dear, good girl do &?
Why, she takes lump of pure gold,
which b lover had sent her when in
prosperity, as keepsake, and, having
it manufactured into a ring, forwarded
it to him, with the following Bible in
scription engraved distinctly on the in
side:


"Entreat me not to leave the or to re-
turn fIom following after thee
whittier thou goest l will go and with
er thou lodgest will lodge thy people
shall he my people and thy God my God
where thou diest will die, and there
will | be buried the Lord do SO to me,
and more also, if aught but death part
thee and me-"


The lover idolized his sweetheart more
than ever, after lie received this precious
evidence of her devotion to him, both in
storm and sunshine.


We may add that fortune soon again
smiled upon the young physician, and
that he subsequently returned to the
North, to wed the sweet girl he loved,
and who loved him with such an undy-
ing affection. Nay more, the happy bride
and groom passed our city, not long
since, on their way to the home of the
latter, in the Golden State. Reader, this
is all true (; young ladies who read the
Bible as closely as the heroine of our in
cident seems to have done, are pretty
sure to make good sweethearts and better
wives.-N. 7. Times.
Year: 1871

The scientific men on the other side of
the ocean who are investigating the
causes of railway accidents from the
breaking of Car axles and wheels, have
reached results altogether contrary TO
the generally received opinion. DR..
Joule, Sir w. Farbairn and Mr. Spence,
all of whom have given great deal of
attention to the subject, declare that
cold and frost, so far from increasing the
brittleness of iron or steel render them
more elastic. Mr.. Spence submitted
cast iron at 60S Fahrenheit and the same
pieces at zero to practical trial, and
found the resistance greater at the lower
temperature. Sir W. Fairbairn finds
that change of temperature makes little
or no difference i'll the strength of wrought
iron, and DIR. Joule says that if there is
difference it is in favor of the lower
temperature. The last named investi-
gator says that the accidents from broken
axles arise, not by the changes Of tenn
perature, but from the neglect of rail-
way companies to submit wheel, axles
and all other parts of their rolling stock,
to practical and sufficient test before
using them Sir William Fairbairn be-
lieves that danger of broken tires arise
from the practice of heating them to a
dull red heat and shrinking them on TO
the rim of the wheels, instead of turning
the rim of the wheel and the inside of
the tire to a standard gauge, accurately
calculated to give the required amount
OF tightness with a larger margin Of
strength. The error seems to have
arisen from the fact that several acci-
dents have occurred during very cold
weather,
Year: 1871

What is year? 'Tis but a wave


ON liie's dark rolling stream,
Which is SO quickly gone that we
Account it but dream
'Tis but single throb


or Times old iron heat,
Which tireless now and strong as when
1t first with life did start.
What is year9 'Tis but turn


OF Times old brazen wheel;
Or but page upon the book


Which time must shortly seal.
'Tis but Il step upon the road


Which we must travel DER
A few more steps, and we shall walk
Lifes weary road no more.
What is year? 'Tis but breath


From Times old nostrils blown,
As rushing onward DER the earth


We hear his weary moan.
IT'S like the bubbles on the wave,


Or dew upon the lawn
AS transit as the mist of morn
Beneath the summers sun.
What is year? IT'S but type


OF life's oft-changing scene;
Youths happy morn comes gaily on,


With hills and valleys green
Next, summers prime succeeds the spring
Then autumn, with tear;
When comes old winter-death and all
Must find a level here.
Year: 1871


There is no death The stars 90 down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
Aud bright in Heavens jewelled crown
They shine forever more.
There Is no death | The duet we tread
Shall change beneath the summer shower
To golden grain, or mellow fruit,


Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize


To feed the hungry moss they bear,
The frost leaves daily life


From out the Viewless air.
There is no death The leaves may fall,
= The flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no death ! An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread,
He bears cur loved things away,


And then we call them dead
He leaves our hearts all desolate-
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers
Transplanted into bliss, they now


Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones
Made glad this scene OF sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song


Amid the tree Of life
And where He sees smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint or vice,
He bears il 10 that werd Of light


To dwell in Paradise.
Born inte that undying life,


They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them the same,
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near US, though unseen,


The dear, immortal spirits tread,
For all the boundless Universe


Is life. There are no dead
Year: 1871

"A WIlItI W the DUEGttN
thus describes the dairy department of
the Queens Model Farm which is situa-
ted about one mile from Windsor. 1t is
probably the most perfect, as it is the
most expensive thing of its kind in the
world:


"We entered beautiful cottage, and
were shown by one of the Queens ia
vorite servants into a room about thirty
feet square, the roof supported by six
octagonal columns of white marble, with
richly carved capitals. The floors were
OF white porcelain tiles, the windows
stained glass, bordered with May bios
SONS, daisies, buttercups and primroses
The floors were lined with tiles of por-
celain of delicate blue tint, with rich
medallions inserted of The Queen, Prince
Cons0rt and each Of the children.
Shields, monograms of the royal family,
and bas-reliets of agricultural designs
representing the seasons, completed the
ornamentation of this exquisite model
dairy. All around the walls ran a marble
table, and through the centre two long
ones, supported by marble posts resting
on basins, through which runs a perpetual
stream of spring water. RY this means
the table slabs are always cold, and the
temperature OF the dairy is chill, while
the white and gilt china milk and butter
dishes resting on the table are never
placed in water. We drank the delicious
milk, Just brought in bright metal buckets
lined with porcelain, the Queens mono
gram and crest glittering on the brass
plates on the covers. In the room where
the butter was made, milk skinned and
strained, we fasten our eyes on the rows
of metal porcelain-lned cans of every
size, made to lock, and sent to the royal
family even as far as Scotland, SO they
always have good milk and butter. The
churn was of metal also, and lined with
porcelain, made in two compartments.
The outside chamber surrounding the
cylinder could have warm or cold water
pouring in to regulate the coming of
the butter without disturbing the cream.
The lid was screwed on, and the station
airy stand on which the whole was turned
made the work easy and rapid. But
while over sixty cows are daily MIXED,
and as many more are grazing, the royal
family are more than satisfied, and the
Londoners more than dissatisfied, to see
rolls of golden butter sold from the
model farm tor saving money for the
Queen know the butter is sold, for
we breakfasted on it this morning, and
we paid for it, not as brfbe, but regu-
lar mar let barpain at the dairy"
Year: 1871

FIGHT WITH A GRIZZLY BEAR.-The San
Joaquin Republican of March l4th relates the
following


From j. A. Crow, of this city, who has
just returned from a trip up the river, We
learn rhe following particulars concerning o
desperate fight which took place few days
since between two hunters and grizzly bear
W. d. Fowler end George Day were out
hunting in the hills near 0ristemba creek,
on the west side of the San joaquin river, in
Stanislaus county, and came upon q large
female grizzly bear, which they commenced
firing at. The bear retreated slowly, and f.
naly went to her lair in some underbrush.
The men kept up steady fire at her at long
range, the bear fighting desperately, tearing
the brush and breaking limbs, but refusing
to leave her position. After while thev
noticed her carry off, one at q time, two small
cubs and hide them in ths brush. Finding
their range too long to be effective, the hug
ters undertook TO reach position nearer the
bear by going around hill, and Just when
they were ascending the knoll to get a sight
Of her she suddenly came over the brow and
dashed at them in most ferocious manner.
When discovered she was so near them that
escape was impossible, and the men stood
their ground. On sue came, tearing up the
bushes and biting the shrubs. When within
ten feet of Fowler he fired, and the shot broke
her neck. She FELL and shot from Days
rifle passed through her heart. 1t was mar
row escape. The hunters captured the two
cubs the mother had hid in the brush, and
another which still remained in the nest.
The two cubs hidden in the brush were coll.
ored precisely alike. while the one remaining
in the nest Was somewhat darker, from which
the hunters conclude that the old bear they
killed had only secreted her own young, and
that the one remaining in the nest belonged
to another bear and another family.
Year: 1871

a quaint writer says: II have seen wo-
men so delicate that they were afraid to ride
for fear of the horse running away AFRAID
to walk for fear the dew might fall; afraid
to sail for fear the boat might upset hut |
never saw one afraid to be married, which IS
more riskful than all the others put togeth-
er."
Year: 1871

4 gentleman learned in the origin of social
customs was asked what was the meaning of
the custom Of casting an old shoe after .
newly married counle as good star, on their
trip. He said ITO Indicate that the ehsn,.
es OF matrImony are very slippery.n
Year: 1871

NEW CoUNTY.-Through letters from,
and conversations with residents of the Ft.
Crook or Pitt River country, we learn that
a meeting of settlers in that locality will be
held in few days to consider the question
OF forming new county. In order to sue
ceed in their efforts to obtain new county,
they must act harmoniously and all pull
together. We understand that the people
OF Goose Lake and Surprise Valley are
willing to go into county organization with
the Ft. Crook people, provided the County
seat is located in Hot Spring Valley. If
the people of Surprise and Goose Lake are
willing to do this, and the Fl. ,,rookers
agree to let the Court House be located at
Hot Springs, there need be no trouble about
getting bill through the Legislature au-
thorizing new county. From the geo.
graphical situation of the country, we be-
lievs that unless the people of Surprise,
Goose Lake, and Ft. Crook sections agree
to do their "lawing" at Hot Springs Valley,
they will have to continue to go to Yreka
| and Shasta to do it.
Year: 1871

A DAILY NAIL NEEDED.-Mr. James
E. Carr having obtained contract for
carrying a weekly mail over the Scott
Mountain road, the Yreka Union gives
truthful reasons why daily mail should
be re established on that route "And
now while this matter is before the public
mind, we may as well say that there ought
to be daily mail over that route. Half
of Siskiyou county, considerable por-
tion of Trinity and klamath, and part
of Del Norte were very seriously incon-
venienced by the discontinuance of daily
mail on that route. There are certainly not
less than 1000 people who would send
and receive their mail matter by that route,
if there was daily mail on it. The dis
tance between Callahan's and Shasta, the
present termini of the daily mail lines, is
about 70 miles Along this route-in
Trinity Valley in Trinity county, and along
Clear Greek in Shasta county-there is a
large population which have only weekly
mail; and portion Of them, those residing
between Callahans and Trinity Centre
nave not mad any mail at all during the
past summer. The interests of the people
in the western part of this county, the
eastern portions of Del Norto, klamath and
Trinity counties, and the northern part Of
Shasta county require that daily mail
should be reestablished over this route.
This could be done without interfering with
the present through line over the Sacramen-
to route; and in fact should be established
entirely independent of it. As but about
10 miles more of daily mail is required to
complete daily line through from Yreka
to Red Bluff, via Trinity Centre and Shasta,
it is to be hoped that the people interested
will take hold of the matter in earnest,
and besiege Congress with petitions till
their prayer in this behalf is granted.