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Year: 1871

UPSET AND RUNAwAY.-On Monday last, Mr..
VIM. Clement, while on the way to his ranch on
Reading Creek with wagon loaded with provi-
sions, met Mr. j. S. Hoyt, the Hay Fork express
man, who was coming this way-also in wagon.
The grade being narrow, Mr.. Clement turned
aside to allow the other team to pass, but one OF
his horses becoming unruly crowded his mate of
the bank, and the horses, wagon, Mr.. Clement and
his son, together with the load went rolling down
the hill into Weaver Creek, only a short distance,
however. The horses becoming disengaged started
down the creek at furious rate but were stopped
before they had gone far, by horseman who hap
pened to be coming this way. Mr.. Clement and
his son were luckily uninjured and no damage
was done except to the wagon.
Year: 1871

CHINAMAN MURDERED.--A Chinaman who
lived at the end of the alley through Chinatown,
was found murdered on Monday morning in the
little shanty where he lived The body, when
found, was lying on his bed IN such position as
to convey the idea that he had been stabbed while
sitting the side of the bed and had fallen back
ward. Coroner Bachelor summoned jury of
six men, who, after hearing such evidence as
could be adduced, returned a verdict to the effect
that the deceased was about 40 years of age a ma
tive of China, that his name was Ching Fong,
and that he came to his death by the hands of some
person unknown to the jury. DR.. j. C. Montague,
who made post mortem examination of the body,
expressed the opinion that the deceased had been
stabbed at some other place and carried to his
house after life extinct which opinion he based
upon the fact that scarcely any blood was visible
where he was lying. Ching Fong a Chinese
money lender, and doubtless was killed for what
money he was possessed Of, as the lock of box
which it is supposed contained his valuables was
found upon the table, bearing the appearance OF
having been forced
Year: 1871

10 OUR PATRoNs.-With the close of the pres
ent month and year the Sixteenth Volume of the
JOURNAL will end We do not desire TO corrv
over 10 the new year any more old accounts than
we can help therefore all parties indebted to us,
without exception, will be furnished with state
ments OF their accounts on or before January 1st,
lo'2' and are respectfully requested to settle the
same without unnecessary delay.
Year: 1871

Town SITEs.-The people of Shasta have pur-
chased their town site from Government Susan
Vile has taken initiatory steps towards the same
end and the Yreka Journal advises the people of
that town to do likewise. Now that Land Office
has been located at Shasta and the matter can be
attended to more easily than formerly, we would
respectfully suggest to our property holders that
they take the necessary steps towards securing a
Government title to the land on which Weaver
willie is built.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER RUNAwAY.-Wh plowing in the
field of Sturdivant & Whitmore, near Junction
City, with gang plow, the team became frightened
and ran of, throwing the driver, Mr.. Davis, to the
ground and injuring him slightly. The lever which
operates on the plowshare slipped back thereby
driving it into the ground to such depth that the
team could make but little headway and were soon
stopped.
Year: 1871

EaE1 THE PROPRIETOR WOULD MOST
iii respectfully announce to his many old
s-saEkAl.x1 friends and also the travelling public
that he has leased this well-known brick hotel
and will at all times be found ready to wait upon
all those who may favor him with the light of
their countenances. The TABLE will be sup
piled with the best the market affords. The
rooms are large and well ventilated, and new
spring beds throughout.


BsS" Stages arrive and depart daily, both
North and South l6-xv-tf
Year: 1871

Some of the Radical papers are now en-
gagged in an effort 10 sully the name of
Washington, by striuging together all the
wicked and malicious things said Of him
by his enemies in the political ezcitements
that followed the Inauguration of the Gov
ernment. It is in perfect keeping with
to degrade everything that is great and
virtuous, pure and lovely. They have
warred upon everything that is great in
the country, and patronized everything
that is base and mean,
Year: 1871

The f1ierds of Convention in Brunswick
county have nominated Mr. SAMUEL r.
CH1sN1s as O candidate for Convention
This is most worthy and popular romi-
oation We regard his election as quite
certain.
Year: 1871

There is one important. objection
which has often been made through
ignorance of the first rule in cook


ing vegetables. 1t is observed that
a meal from them isitot satisfying.
l have found it frequently happen
that the person who thus: objected
did not even know how to boil a
vegetable. The rule is simple, but
must never be forgotten. Every
kind of vegetable intended to be
served whole should, when put to
boil, be placed at once in boiling
water; and this applies especially to
potatoes and vegetables from which
the outer cover has been removed
Now it often happens that potatoes,
etc., are, to save time, placed in cold
water left to boil gradually. 1t is
lust this which allows the nutritious
matter to escape, and renders the
meal unsatisfying. When, on the


contrary, the water boils from the
moment the vegetable is immersed
in it the albumen is partially coagu


lated near the surface, and serves to
retain the virtue of the vegetable.
The reverse is of course the rule for
making soup,or any dish from which
the water is not to be drained. By
placing the vegetables in cold water
the albumen is slowly dissolved,and
actually mixes with the water-a
process most necessary for the pro
duction of nutritious soup. 1t is
to be hoped that the poor,who have
a special need for the most their
money can produce, will learn in
what ever haste they may be, not to
boil all the albumen from their po-
tatoes, reserving for their need, only
the starchy matter-Food Journal.
Year: 1871

Strawberry vines may be trans
planted very early in the growing
season, and at any time thereafter,
until apple trees are in full bloom,
provided the plants are removed
with ball of earth. If there are
many leaves already developed, it
will be better to clip off half of them,
than to allow them to exhaust the
vitality of the growing plant. No
tool should be used during the
growing season, that will mutilate
the roots. If stable manure can be
obtained, let top-dressing two
inches deep be spread around about
the plants. Ifthe soil is sufficiently
rich, straw, salt, hay, sawdust, tan
bark, shavings, or any other coarse
material may be employed as a
mulch. In case there should not be
a sufficient depth of mulch to smoth
er weeds and grass, let such plants
be pulled up rather than dug up
with hoe. In order to produce an
abundant crop of berries, the grow
ing plants must be supplied with
rich fertilizing material. If it is
desirable to derive the greatest ben
eft from guano, let the guano he
put into an old barrel with some
stable manure, then add water suffi-
cient to leach out the soluble ele-
ments of fertility, which should be
applied with watering pot. Let
all sorts of fowls be kept away from
strawberry plants, as they will de-
stroy the tender buds which contain
the fruit.
Year: 1871

Anybody can raise watermelonSs
but comparatively few persons, how
ever, raise them in perfection.
Mere dropping seed in little mound
of earth will not produce good mel
ons. Careful cultivation rich soil
and judicious management are quite
as necessary to insure large, luscious
melons as anything else that is pro
duced on the farm. A correspond
ent, who has never failed raising
fine crops of this fruit, uses the fol
lowing mode of cultivation :-''As
am very successful raising water
melons, l thought l would send
my plan. The spot of ground that
you expect to plant prepare well
early in the season by ploughing
deep: early in the season lay OF
your hills eight feet apart each way.
dig out holes two feet deep, two feet
square, in each hole put half peck
rotten Gotten seed, half peck hogpen
manure and tablespoonful ofsalt;
mix well with hoe, adding soil un-
til You get the hole full up to three
inches from the surface, then draw
on light, loose dirt until you get II
level; do not elevate it, for by so
doing YOU cause them to die out
when summer comes; draw your
hoe arouud to form a furrow, plant
half dozen seeds in a hill, soon as
up thin out to four; second hoeing
thin to two. Continue to hoe them
every four or five days, and just be
fore the vines start to run, side with
plough, first one way, then the 9th
er-I mean cross-ploughing. In
about ten days give them another
ploughing and hoeing. Continue to
keep the ground loose justas long as
Won can do so without injuring the
vines. for in no case should they be
moved. Drive little sticks across
the vines thus:-N, to keep the
wind from blowing them about. By
the above plan l have gathered over
900 melons from half an acre of
ground, some weighing over forty
pounds.
Year: 1871

Shortly after Mr.. Buchanan's re-
turn from Russia in 1884, to which
he had been sent by President Jack
son in 1882, and Immediately fol-
lowing his election to the Senate of
the United States by the Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania, to fill the un-
expired term of William Wilkins,
resigned, who in his turn, was sent
to succeed Buchanan in the same
foreign mission, Buchanan called
upon Old Hickory with fair Eng
lish lady, whom he desired to pre-
sent to the head of the American
nation. Leaving her in the recep-
tion room down stairs, he assembled
to the Presidents private quarters,
and found General Jackson unshaved
and unkempt, in his dressing gown,
with his slippered feet on the fender
before blazing wood fire, smoking
a corn cob pipe of the old Southern
school. He stated his object, when
the General said he would be very
glad to meet the handsome ac-
Quaintance of the new bachelor
Senator.


Mr.. Buchanan was always.careful
of his personal appearance, and, in
some respects, was sort of mascu-
line Miss Fribble, addicted to spot
less cravats and huge collars; rather
proud of small foot for a man of
his large stature, and to the last OF
his life what the ladies would call
ga very good figure" Having just
returned from visit to the fashion
able continental circles, after two
years of thorough intercourse with
the etiquette of one of the stateliest
courts in Europe, he was somewhat
shocked at the idea of the President
meeting the eminent English lady
in such guise, and ventured to ask
if he did not intend to change his
attire, whereupon the old warrior
rose, with his long pipe in his hand,
and deliberately knocking the ashes
out of the bowl, said to his friend I:
Buchanan, l want to give you a
little piece of advice, which l hope
you will remember. l knew a man
once who made his fortune by at
tending to his own business. Tell
the lady 1 will see her presently"


The man who became President
in 1856 was fond of saying that this
remark of Andrew Jackson humili-
ated him more than any rebuke he
had ever received. He walked
down stairs to meet his fair charge,
and in a very short time President
Jackson entered the room, dressed
in a full suit of black, cleanly
shaved, with his stubborn white
hair forced back from his remark
able face, and advancing to the
! beautiful Britisher, saluted her with
almost kingly grace. AS she left
the White House, she exclaimed to
>her escort, "Your Republican Presi-
dent is the royal model of gentle
man .7Ie
Year: 1871

A young lawyer of Philadelphia
wrote to an old limb near Chica-
go, thus: lis there an opening in
your part of the country that ! can
get into?" Answer: There is an
opening in my yard, about thirty
feet deep, no curb around. If that
will suit, come on"
Year: 1871

a cloud of smoke into the lady's face,
and walked on.


Such consummate impertinence.'
said. You would hardly think that
l had never seen that man before to-
day


.AcQuaintarceship does spring up
rapidly sometimes was the meaning
reply, and l glanced down, but the
speakers head was averted, and it
seemed to me that she spoke in husky
| tones.


For the next three DAYS the number
of passengers who showed on deck was
strictly limited, in consequence Of the
state or the weather, and really the
offices uf steward and stewardness
could have been 10 sinecure. For my
part only own to being qualmish on
the second day. and paced the deck
hopefully in anticipation Of the advent
Of my lady friend. But go on deck
when would was sure to encounter
the cool, easy, assured nod of the bag
man, whose consumption Of cigars
must have been enormOu. He was
as free and obtrusiye as ever but one
evening, just as it was turning dark, l
had the pleasure Of smoking my pipe
in peace, for l saw him in deep con-
versation with a man l had hardly
noticed before, from the fact Of his
being one Of the second-class passen-
gers.


To NV great astonishment though
after had gone into the saloon, the
bagman came str"lling in, followed q
short distance, behind, by the man "a
whom he had been speaking and thii
latter, seating himself on the opposite
side Of the table in an distracted man
ner, sat thinking for while, and thsu
walked slowly past NJ and ont q tha
Year: 1871

A NOBLE USE OF TALENT.-General
George Il. Pickett, who, although on the
wrong side, has, IN his conduct since the
war, displayed the modesty and intelligence
of General Lee, by remaining silent upon
the various political affairs which have di-
vided the sections, "a sure evidence that he
was good fighter and brave man, is
again initiating his commander, by pursuing
business for the support Of himself and
family.


He offers his services to the people of
Virginia as general agent of the WASH
ington Life Insurance company of New
York, and as an evidence that he means
business and does not wish to confno it to
partisan surroundings, advertises his COM
pany and its business in the JOURNAL.


His conduct, to which we refer above,
entities him to the confidence Of the public,
and we are sure gentleman Of his ability
would not connect himself with an organi-
cation that was unsound. We cheeriully
recommend the company and General
Pickett as their agent to our friends.
Year: 1871

GRAND EXCURSION OF ODD FELL
Lows.-St. John Lodge, Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, of Chester will on
Monday, lay the corner stone of their Hall
at Chester, and have made arrangements
for grand excursion from this city on that
day.


Arrangements have been completed by
which as many as may wish to 80 can find
comfortable accommodations both OF the
route and at Chester. The tickets
have been reduced to the nominal price Of
80 cents, which will enable everybody to
attend.


We call attention to the advertisement ia
be found elsewhere in the JOURNAL, and
trust its inducements offered will cause q
large number of the friends Of this charita-
Bile institution to encourage it by their pres.
ence.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, July 2l.-Henry Ward
Beecher says in the Christian Union
OF this week: "OraDgemen should
parade next week with not one in
scription rubbed out. They should
not do it on an empty promise that If
protected for once they will then do it
no more. They ought to move
through the streets Of New York until
nobody would think Of mOlesting
them. When that time arrives 1t will
be a matter Of no public importance
whether an annual procession is kept
up OF not. But as long as a dog wags
his tongue against an Orange pIOces-
sion. or a bewildered magistrate for
gets his duty toward them, the public
good requires their continuance. II
the Orangemen of New York wait till
next year, they will betrsy a sacred
duty. By accident they have become
the representatives of the principle
which lies at the foundation of modern
civilization. They do not now repre-
sent a spent fact in history, but a living
principle. 1t is not the battle Of the
B1yne in Ireland, but a question Of
liberty ia New York"
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, July 21.-The re-
cords in the Treasury department
show that up to yesterday sixty-seven
millions of the new funded loan have
been subscribed for. This saves the
Government treasury, in annual in
terest, six hundred and seventy thou
sand dollars. Should Boutwell, ex-
pend one years interest in placing
the loan on the market, he viii then
receive a saving interest of six hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars an
nuaIly for nine years. Therefore, the
statement that the Government would
sustain a loss by the loan is incOnsis-
tent and erroneous.


The Tribune in a financial article says
the continued threats Of a rupture be-
tween the Northwest and st. Paul
people leave but little doubt in the
public mind that the former harmOni-
Gus relations can be secured only
when their ultimate object shall have
been attained. The public will do
well, however, to leave the quarrel to
be fought between the interested par
ties. Northwest shares went of at
one to two per cent on considerable
sales, and st. Paul was weak on a
light business. There was the usual
gossip about Lake Shore. The price
is seeking a lower range. This stock
is looked upon by many as a test OF
the market, and it Is thought that the
course of future speculation rests, in
a great measure, on the result of the
meeting next Wednesday. 1t will be
remembered that, according to their
last report, it was only by the strict
est aTithmetical solutions that the
company declared an eight per cent
annual dividend, the precise figures
rejecting about nine per cent as net
earnings on the capital stock of thir-
ty-five million dollars. Should the
result Of the next meeting be calcu-
lated to increase the share capital to
fifty millions, by an addition Of fifteen
millions Of new issue, the question Of
future immediate dividends would be
at least prOblematical. While these
considerations may not govern the
controlling clique in their future ac-
tiOns, yet it ought to have weight
with future purchasers.
Year: 1871

Master and Lord he viii not learn TO call him
Friend. Our fathers buiit the foundation wallss
they lived TOO much In the cellar: but we shall not
improve upon their doings by getting too hgh and
neglecting the foundations The way TO love u
through conscientious service. '.Ir any man love
me let him keep my commandments s.If any man
Will do my Will he SHAH know OF the dOctrine.n
There Is no wav to true Christian life except
through obedience. true discIpeship should De


STEADY PRACTICAL, SINCERE:


never hot, never cold. Nowhere Is c0mpaniOnShip
with Christ revealed as an Independent privilege.
While there Is in the present dav desire Tor
more loving Gospel Is there not too little OF the
responsibility OF discipleship There is a great


beray, great largeheartedness, but there Is little
OF work with our own hands In the vineyard OF
God. We shall never get warm by paying
others to do our work. We should apply our wealth
with our own hands and water IL with our tears.
Our Lord, when He was earth. might have healed
by word, yet lie laid His hands on the lsprous
man and on the lame man. He touched diseases.
and so taught us not to do good at arms length.
The centre of the sphere OF service Is ones se but
the boundary is limited only by the power OF the
s)ul The effect OF duty Is to enlarge the heart. and
If properly does ones duty IN the household the
heart will overflow into the community The fOun-
da0n of religion Is duty and duty Is glorified by
love. The reward Is the companl0nshlp and sym
pathy OF God.
Year: 1871

The Return OF and sermon by Rev. JOHN


Rali--d;od's Demand Upon His Minister'S


Congratulations and Declaration OF Chris


tian Duty.


The Presbyterian church. Fifth avenue and Nine
teenth street. was filled even TO the passage ways
yesterday morning by congregation evidently
anxious, in a devotional way, to welcome the return
Of Rev. John Hall, the pastor of the church, who
during the summer solsdce has been seeking
health abroad. After prayer and singing, which
IN TINS church Is, with the aid OF precentor and
unadorned organ, congregational, the reverend
gentleman selected as his text the First Epise OF
Paul to the Corinthians, L., lIFor Christ sent me
not to baptze but 10 preach the Gospel; not with
wisdom OF words, lest the cross OF Christ should
made OF none elfect.'


Before entering fully or directly upon the subject
suggested by the passage the reverend gentleman
took occasion TO say that he was very thankful to
God for the benefit he had derived from the Iest he
had taken-the longest and most beneficial he
pertaining 10 4 minister OF Chrst's Church-and he
did not think lie could better give evidence of his
thanks thar by recognizing the peculiar duties
taching TO the minister OF Christ as declared by
Paul in the text he mad read.


Ii would be seen by the language Of the text that
Paul placed the preaching OF the Gospel the first
and highest OF his duties AS minister of Christ and
that all other duties were secondary 10 that even
tnat OF baptlzing and the celebration OF the Lords
supper. But, In addition, 1t should be ob.
served that while Paul placed the preach
ing OF the Gospel highest among
ministerial duties he also added how the Gospel
should be preached, mot with wisdom OF words lest
the cross OF Christ should become OF none effect"
To this declaration OF Paul he gave a marked con-
sequence, and during somewhat elaborate dis
course gave TO IT more OF emphasis than TO any
other OF the points involved In the verse he had
chosen. lie noted the temptation, to cergymen
who have talent for word painting TO endcavor to
more fully impress Gospel truths upon their hearers
by leaving the wonderfully beautiful simplicity Of
the language used bv Christ for the con-
veyance OF His doctrine and employing more
ornate and sensational forms OF speech. Such
course he discouraged and, In concluding his SER
mon, declared his preference for Cnrst's simplicity,
ana implored It's imitation not only 10y the clergy,
but also by those VINO hold subordinate positions
teachers IN the churcn ana It's sunday schools, and
by parents VINO strive to rear their children IN tine
knowledge ana fear or God. On the conclusion OF
his discourse. Of which, OF course, the above is
simply glimpse, the congregation joined in the
concluding hymn, and with Il bcncdictI0n retired.