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Year: 1873

During the ninth year Of its existence, q
second series of stock was issued, and to this
series the loan Of the first series for the tenth
year were sold. Had this second series been
issued earlier in the history of the Delaware,
it would now be possible to pay off the hold
ers of the shares in the first series in full brt
as such was net done, certain per cent, only
will be received by them at the present time,
and the remainder will be paid over as fast ns
the second series returns to the FIRST series the
amount which it has borrowed. The actual
amount paid on each share is 1926 The fna
payment was made on Monday night last.
Year: 1873

Don't fail to call Mt the New Clothing Hall
And there you win find all that you may wish
for this Fall, in the line of Clothing for Men
and Boys. Cheap, cheap, is my motto, and n
better class of Goods than were heretofore sold
in Smyrna Don't forget to call on 5. l..
Kahn. Cnmmsrce Street below Main.
Year: 1873

From the Virginia City New Enterprise.l


In the large cabinet of specimens Of
ore. minerals and miscellaneous curios-
tiles. at the Palace Saloon thinker d
Sheppard's), is to be seen an ancient hu-
man skull, which is Q great curiosity.
The skull was found at the Ophir dump,
during the palmy days in the history OF
that mine, by Judge A. W. SANDY
Baldwin, killed some years since by a
terrible railroad accident in California.
The Judge picked il up as it rolled down
toward his feet from a car lead of ore
dumped by a miner. 1t is labeled as
having been taken out five hundred feet
below the surface, but from what portion
of taa lead it came can never be GER
tainly known. Most likely from some
drift at no great depth IRON the surface.
Although the facial bones are
gone the remainder Of the skull is
entire. Il is coated over with shell OF
qray mineral nsster, and where this
IS peeled off the substance beneath
is quite black and presents the appear
ance of having been stained BY sulphuret
OF silver. The outer ehell appears to be
silver ore. so confident vas Judge Bald
w;n that This. at least, was silver, that he
offered TO bet $1OO that 1t would assay at
the rate of $65 per ton. = there DO o
skull anywhere on the Pacific coast be-
longing to prshistoric man, this must be
that skull. tits certainly Of very unu-
sual and peculiar shape. it is very
short from base to summit, and exceed
ingly broad between the ears; indeed, it
buiees out wonderfully in the region of
the ears. No one capable of giving an
opinion in regard 70 the age OF the skull
has ever examined IT, The fact of its
being dug out of the heart of the Gem
stock lode makes it an object of more
than usual interest, whether or not it
may contain silver Although the skull
has been in the saloon for some years,
we are not aware that particular men
ton has before been made Of it.
Year: 1873

Desperate Struggle with n Berenved


Grizzly.


From the Watsonvllle Parjaronian.l


A few weeks ago DR.. Swain, Of this
place, went on hunting expedition to
a point about one hundred miles from
here, in the eastern part Of Monterey
county. In the company was an old
mountaineer called Rocky" who has
become famous as bear hunter. One
morning Rocky started out Of camp,
and was laboriously toiling along a mar
row trail on the side of steep canyon.
When in wild portion of the noun
tains, he saw on the opposite side OF the
canyon two young grizzlies playing on
grassy beach Of land. Immediately
his splendid revolving rifle was at his
shoulder, and he fred. One cub he
killed instantly, but the other lived long
enough to cry, almost like child, for
the mother bear. Soon cracking Of
bushes was heard behind, and Rosky
turned Just in time to see the mother
enraged and excited, almost upon the
slayer of her offspring The bold
hunter again raised his rife, but before
he could use it the bear by one stroke
of her powerful paw hurled it from his
grasp far out of his reach. A hand.to-
hand encounter was now the only
way out OF the difficulty, and Rocky
drew his huge knife. He raised it, and
swiftly it descended, cleaning through
the air, into the heart of the bear, and
none too soon, for as be struck the bear
also dealt him a powerful blow on his
side, which stretched him insensible
some distance from the scene OF the
encounter, the knife remaining buried
to the hilt in the bears shaggy side.
After time the hunter recovered sufi
ciently to drag himself to the camp,
where be was obliged to remain for sew
eral days before he recovered from the
terrible blow he had received. Other
members Of the party went to the place
and found the cubs dead, and short
distance from them the old bear also
dead. The gun and knife were recov-
cred. and for several days bear steaks
we're the bill of fare in that camp. DR..
Swain says the meat of the cubs was
delicious-fat and tender. There are
many grizzlies in that section, and only
the most experienced hunters, like
Rocky, have any business hunting them.
There is probably no animal in the
world more dangerous or difficult to kill
than the grizzly bear of California.
Year: 1873

Good night, dear child, good night;
Sleep in thy little bed,
So soft, so lily-white,
Beneath thy golden head.


Good night.
Like sunshine on a flower.
Thy tresses stray adown
The pillow in a shower.
And gild thy snowy gown.


Good night.
Feet, restless as the rain,
Your patter dies away
Till morning wakes again,
And calls you out to play.


Good night.
Good night, dear child, good night!
Breathed is thy evening prayer;
Thy watch of angels bright
Comes through the silent air.


Good night.
We yield thee to their care
Until the shadows flee,
Content that they should share
In our fidelity.


Good night.
Year: 1873

From the Danbury News.I


The historian Of this affair locates II
in Sugar Hollow. The heroes are two
colored men who have been on forsy
for eoops, and. having expended their
powder aud oEdor without success, are
on their return homo in a gory sick and
denressed mood During the transit
through tie Hollow, one OF them de-
tocted a coon perchod on the limb OF a
wayside tree. This was very forlu-
nate oceuTTence, but as the party was
without ammunition, it seemed as II
they would have TO take out the chance
in observation and a few desultory re-
marks. But one OF them offered TO go
up the tree and shake the coon out,
while the other remained on the ground
in charge Of the dog. he accordingly
ascended. When he reached the limb
the coon had gone out 10 its further end'
and there awaited the attack he
moved out on the limb as lar as be
dared, and proceeded 20 shake Il. While
thus engaged there was a sudden snap
between him and the trunk, aud be Just
had time 10 note this and hug TO the
limb when be went down, and after be
ing raped against the tree, swung out
again and remained suspended, with the
coon below him. Looking down 10 see
where the coon was, he vas somewhat
startled TO fnd that excellent animal
making a movement upwards.


With hands engaged in keeping him
self from being dashed 70 pieces, be
was no sort Of foe for the coon. Thus
situated, be cried to bis companion for
help, but that gentleman was povcrless
and being himself 10 position Of safety
very naturally suggested 70 the msn up
the tree that be pray. Pray said The
victim, whom The proposition appareuily
Year: 1873

The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, allud-
ing to the recent death of Mrs. General
Lee, thus touchingly refers to the cruel
injustice of which we regret to say our
Government has been guilty of prac-
ticing toward the venerable woman who
has now passed away:


80 For several years she had fondly
cherished the hope of ending her days
at Arlington, the parental mansion
her own home and the home Of her
children. There she was born, there
she had been married, and there her
children were born. Naturally all her
affections clustered around this, to her
hallowed spot, and as years rolled on
she became more and more anxious to
return to the old homestead, where lie
buried the remains OF devoted father
and mother, and where she had hoped
to have peacefully surrendered her spirit
to the God who gaveit, surrounded by all
the recollections Of happier days. But
in this she was doomed to disappoint-
ment, disappointment that, added to
her recent heavy bereavements, finally
broke down G sbstterd constitution, and
death ensued. She felt keenly the
wrong imposed upon her by the Govern
ment, that, without the shadow of right
or justice, but merely by the strong arm
of power, withheld from her her own
aud her ehildreg'a, in violation of the
very laws under which the property was
at first seized; and few there are in the
land, we should think, who will rot re-
greet that this injustice was perpetrated,
and who will not noF be willing that
restitution shall be made TO the descend.
ants Of her whose soul has passed to
happier home
Year: 1873

other instrument in the hands of their
oppressers.


Nothing short of an entire and COM
pletc abrogation of the treaty with China
will satisfy the representative Democra-
cy of Trinity. With all due respect to
the wisdom OF that body, we think It has
pledged itself to more than it will ever
attempt to accomplish. 1t is easy enough
to talk to those who see no deeper than
the surface of State questions, about alb
rogating q treaty which gives the United
States such great commercial advantages
as the Burlingame treaty gives. For
centuries the ports of China were prac-
tically closed to the world, and it was re-
served to the diplomacy Of Americans TO
effect that which other powers had sought
70 effect by force of arms. The idea that
this treaty will be interfored With except
to be so amended as to give the States
the right to establish certain police regu-
lations by which Chinese Immigration
may be restrained, is too ridiculous to be
entertained even by the gentleman whose
earmarks" are apparent in the wording
of the resolution. Public opinion must
precedc legislation in cases of this char
actcr, and so long as leading Democrats
employ Chinese servants in their kitch-
ems or Chinese miners in their claims,
the eloquenee of fnely-rounded resolu-
tions against the Chinese will be wasted
=" like sweets upon the desert air." The
most that can be asked for in reference
to the Chinese Treaty, will be TO procure
such notifications of it as will prevent a
further influx of that undesirable class of
people, and which, in connection with
combined action ON the part Of the people
will relieve the State of the swarms which
now infest the cities and the mines, and
crowd their disastrous competition into
every field for unskillcd labor. And this
is just what the Republicans of the Pa
cifc Slope hope and expect to accom-
plish.


1t would be a matter Of almost utter
impossibility to construct n Democratic
platform without due proportion Of
demagoguism, consequently we are not
surprised to see the bids for votes at the
hands of those who believe monoplies and
Chinese immigration both a curse to the
industrial interests Of the country. The
Republican party takes the only correct
ground upon all these questions, and
makes no appeal to the prejudiccs, while
it labors earnestly for the welfare Of the
masses. 1t has shown, in its twelve years
Of power. that it has the best interests of
the whole country at heart, and its acts
will court comparison with Democratic
clap trap professions.
Year: 1873

ABsENTEEIsM. - Among the serious
evils Of which the people of Ireland com
plain is what is called in that country
Absenteeism. They complain that many
Of their largest property holders live
abroad and leaving their estates entirely
in the hands Of agents, spend in foreign
lands the income derived from their prop
erty. 1t is urged that this is highly dct-
rimental TO the welfare of the country
and is productive of the worst results.


There is another sort of absenteeism
with which the people of Trinity county
have been afflicted and which they are to
approve or condemn in September next.
1t is well known that prior to Mr.. Tin
nin's election to the Assembly two years
ago, he had been for some time engaged
in settling up the affairs Of Tinnin &
Owens and Investing his means elsewhere.
Had he been defeated at that time Trinity
county would have known him no more
as an inhabitant. But he was elected
and he has graciously condescended to
retain his dwelling house in Weaveryile
and reside here some of the time, still
continuing to accumulate every dollar
possible by the collection of debts and
the sale of mining claims and other prop
erty to Cinnamon, and send the money
so gathered to the Bay and elsewhere out
Of the county. The good book tells
us that where q mans treasure is that
thoro his heart is also. We suppose no
one will doubt that Jim Tinnin's heart is
with his money bags. If reelected, he
will represent as he did in the last legis-
lature, the merchants and politicians Of
San Francisco, and not in any case the
people Of Trinity county. This the de-
mocracy Of this county endorse and justi-
fly. We ask the people of this county to
seriously consider whether w. j. Tinnin,
who has not dollar invested here that
he could withdraw, who will not invest
dollar for any purpose tending to the gen
eral good and who has impoverished the
county to the extent Of his ability to do
so, is fit and proper man to represent
them in the Legislature. While Mr..
Tinnin is wealthy and able to do n great
deal to benefit the county if he was so
disposed, his opponent is in humble cir
cumstances. But all that he has is here
with us, and all his efforts are devoted to
the development of our resources. The
people have to choose between the capi-
talist whose pecuniary interests arc else
where, and working miner whose all is
invested in Trinity county. Nothing but
party feeling run mad can prevent all
from viewing this matter alike.
Year: 1873

A FAILURE.-In obedience to the man.
dates of the Sacramento Union clique,
Governor Newton Booth delivered a care
fully prepared speech at San Francisco,
on the 18th instant, against the Central
Pacific Railroad Company and in favor
Of the Booth legislative ticket. Booths
speech is another Goat Island effort and
fiat failure. 1t is evident that the Gov
crnor cannot free himself from a con-
sciousness Of the fact that he is filing the
part Of mere tool and doing the dirty
work for a set of unscrupulous men. "IIC
needs must go whom the devil drives p
and Booth, though compelled, has nc
heart in the present canvass.
Year: 1873

Action brought in
the District Court of
the Ninth Judicial
District of the State


of California, in and
+ for the said County of
Trinity, and the Conn
plant filed in said
County of Trinity, in
the Office of the Clerk
of said District Court.
Year: 1873

EHY WOMEN lose THEIR BEA UTY.


Shut up in. houses nine-tenths of their
time, with either no exercise, or that
which is of n limited, irksome sameness,
they are, as q consequence, unnaturaliy
pale, soft and tender; their blood is
poorly organized and watery, their mus
cles small and flabby; and the force and
functions of their bodies, as whole,
run low in the scale of life. A spurious
fullness is often seen in the outline dur
ing girlhood, which usually melts Like
snow under an April sun whenever the
endurance is put to the test, as in per.
forming the functions of a mother. The
change in appearance from the maiden
of one year to the mother Of the next is
often so striking and enduring that it is
difficult to believe we are looking ON the
same person. The round, pleasing shape
is prematurely displaced by a pinched
sngularity, and an untirhely and I'M
seemly appearance Of age. Travellers
from other countries, who have had an
extensive means for observation and
comparison, have remarked upon the
great beauty of American women, and
the early age at which it is lost. Some
have ascribed this to the climate, but
more intelligent observers agree that it
is hot-house, enervating mode of life.
English ladies of rank, who, by the way,
are celebrated for keeping their beauty
even to q ripe old age, think nothing Of
walking a half dozen miles at time,
while American ladies would think such
thing perfectly dreadful. :" If Ameri-
can women, SO daintily and richly fed,
will sit in dark and sultry rooms the
ive-long day, they must expect to bloom
too soon, to hasten through this charm
ing period-at the longest in about ten
years-and for twenty-five years after
have the grim satisfaction Of being thin.
wrinkled, angular, and sallow.
Year: 1873

We suppose there must be, at the most
modest calculation, between fifteen hun
ired and two thousand persons m this
vicinity who get their newspaper sea ding
for nothing. including the unconscIol liable
who steal papers from other
peoDle's doors. or borrow from their neigh
tors, or loaf around where newspaper is
subscribed for, and paid for, and monopo,
liZe it to the exclusion of the rig ghttul
owner. We have had several subscribers
stop their subscriptions, for no fault of our
carriers. as they admitted, i'll non delivery,
but because their papers, after being de
livered, we're taken by some individual, as
short of conscience as Of cash, who would
take possession of it. Thus, newspaper,
which ought to be well supported by a
community for the general good it does
that community, is made to support the
town, in a measure-that is. it is expected
to live without resources, and to advertise
| the life and business Of town without the
support which is requisite to enable it t.
/ keep up to metropolitan standard OF ex
cellence. An individual should blush Il


read paper habitually which another in


dividual pays for. There are too man.


people who read papers which they do no


pay for, and this is for their eyes especial
Iiy, with the purpose Of soaring their con


science, if they have any, and for the pur


pose of appealing to those who do sub


scribe and pay for newspapers, to kee


them filed and not permit them to go ou
of their possession, in Justice to themselvt


as well as to the printer whose capital an
labor are invested in a business whic


serves TO advertise the commercial statJ


of q city in proportion TO the enterprise i


substantial patronage enables 1t to dispia.
l--Ndshpilk Bonner,
Year: 1873

There is no occasion for any man to wor-
~ himself about the prospect OF any legIt
innate business. All legitimate trade rs
not only certain to go on, but it Is certain
to be benefited by the crash which iilegit
innate trade melted by an irredeemable
shinplaster currency. has brought upon the
country. Legitimate trade will be de
stroyed. and the more complete the de
struction the better for all legitimate anc
honest industry. The end OF the swim
ding period is at hand 1t is only wher
the swinding period is ended, and tn
swindlers of all varieties have gone to thei
own place, that period of honesty can be
Gin. CHicdQO Times.
Year: 1873

There is a rumor on our streets, said 10
have come through private sources, that
the Union National, of Chicago, has per
manently closed or will do so this evening,
We called at our First National to inquire
if they had any special information OF pub
lie interest, and was informed that they
had not. but they had some Information
which made them feel good. We doubt
if there is reason to think business vii
soon improve very much.
Year: 1873

Somebody that THE ARGUS call big
oted Protestant fool" nailed caricature
of the Pope to the door of the First Pres
byterian church, and attached Grape to the
door knob, last Monday. The edifce had
recently been bought BY tue Catholic
church. Whoever committed the deed, or
whoever commits any deed under cover of
the night that he is afraid to father in day
light is sneaking coward. If the author
Of this act dislikes the Catholic faith let
him show himself man, produce his rea-
sons, and oppose it openly and honorably.
--.Mosine Rerietr.
Year: 1873

This is the confding way in which The
Toca Falls Sentinel talks to the men in
that State whom its party called the 'Pota-
to Bug Party before they became formid-
able:


Trust the strength of the grand old
party to right your wrongs. Come along
and let us weed your garden and cast al
the noxious rubbish out The farmers o
Iowa, can, with the aid of thousands o
honest Republicans in other employment
and pursuits, accomplish all they desire
and quickly too.
Year: 1873

John Jackson was walking along the
river bank one day, when he saw piece
of string attached to a peg stuck in tho
ground. He picked up tho string, OF
which one end was 10 the water, aud hau.
led iu three dne bass, which by some
means or other had strung themselves
through the gills on the line. jackson was
so asIonished by this circumstance that he
did no! know what to say, but he aelerm'
ined to take tho fish home and show them,
Before doing so, however, hO looked about
to see il anybody could give an eSpIana'
ton Oft affair, but he only saw gentle
man fishing some quarter Of a mile of. and
not wishing to interrupt him in his sport
picked up bis prize and walked home with
it. John Jackson bad bis fish for supper,
and pronounced them very fine, but to this
day he cannot explain how three bass
could possibly string themselves through
the gills, tip themselves around peg, and
go back to the water again. The gentle,
man who bad been fishing must have made
just such Ouothor curious capture and lOst
it, for he was heard later in tho evening
talking very loud, and asking somebody
very profancIy, what the something had
become Of it.
Year: 1873

We clip tho following from tho Port
land Argus: "a young Maine nan, who
is engaged in the commercial travelling
business for Chicago house, was travel.
ing out ln the far West, when he was tax.
en- possession Of by two men, who simply
informed him that they were officers and
wanted him. HO expOStulatOd, explained
demanded explanations, &C, but all in
vain. No one the train knew him, aud
there we're those who did know tho Off.
GERS. All that he could get out Of them
was that he was the man thOy wanted, 80
To this way he was taken some ninety
miles into the interior. Upon arrival be
had no longer to remain in Ignorance Of
bis supposed offense, tho whole village be-
ing out to welcome him with cries as
"here's the id horse thief, caught at
last, Let's string him up"


The officers made some show Of resis-
lance, but the excited mob took possession
Of their victim and marched him into town,
near the centre Of which q moose was al
ready strung over the limb of tree
Our friend thought it was all up with him
sure. Expostulation was received with
derisiou, Everybody recognized him as a
notorious horSe.thicf, whose deprGdationS
had been continued and extensive, A
horso.thief in that country is looked upon
as something worse than an average mur.
dorer. There was pot a plying eye in
tho crowd, and the UNIVERSAL cry was
"Lynch him!" Ho tried to pray, but the
commercial travelling business had ruined
him from praying! WhilO waiting uodCr
the moose happy thought struck him!
His Masonry! He is Royal Arch Ma
son!


In all that crowd there must be Ma.
sons He gave the grand hailing signal of
distress We are not at liberty to explain
how it was done, for several reasons, the
chief Of which is, we don't know, But he
gave it, and in an instant one Of the FORE
most citizens Of the town spraog to his
side and gave some more of his Masonic
signals, and the prisoner was quickly sur
rounded BY twenty or thirty determined
mOu,s4ho halaAbq utCWaaF Eilll.
drawn pistolsIT Our friend explained to
the leading man who be was. They or
ganizod committee Of investigation, tol-
egraphed to Cairo aud verified all bis state
meuts, and the brutal mob sunk away
heartily ashamed


Our friend was made as comfortable as
possible by his Masonic friends, but he
says he never experienced such intense
anxiety as he did when he stood under. tbe
moose.