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Year: 1871

The Sacramento Reporter says "There
Is wise and Industrious dog In the
eastern part of our city--One that could
be easily taught to read. The next door
neighbor to his master takes newspa-
per- and every morning, before any one
isup the dog goes in and takes the pa
per Off the steps and deposits 1t at the
door ofhis owner. The lady of the
house did not know where the paper
came from until she watched the fellow
one morning, as he came up wagging
his tail aud depositing the paper at her
fret. Hereafter she will watch that
dog, lest some one finds fault"
Year: 1871

THE Mosr EXuAUsrlNG LABOR: The
idea is often ridiculed by uncducated
people that students, and those whose
professions require constant mental cX-
ertion, really work as hard as those en-
ysged In manual labor. But from the
chemical experiment of Prof, lIough-
ton. of Trinity College Dublin, it is
proved that two hours of severe mental
study abstract from the human system
As much vital strength as is taken from
it by whole day OF mere hard work,
Year: 1871

A dispatch from Scranton, says it seems
to be the general sentiment among the
business men that the only chance the
miners have is to go to work without
naming the terms, and arbitrate the wages
af(erward, and the indications are that
the companies are ready to mike such
arrangements. The men it is thought
could be induced TO arhitrate the wages
belors entering the mines, but they repel
the idea of entering the mines without
knowing beforehand what they will re-
celye for their work Considerable coal
was yesterday mined in the TrippsstOps.
Rumor states that the men at work were
threatened, but investigation shows there
Is no truth in it The military is station
ed at a convenient distance. I'D .r..l
Year: 1871

+ sAta.-. - NEW YORK, Mays.


The Time Washington special says
the first step toward the execution Of the
Ku-Klux law, is probably the issue OF q
proclamation by the President, which
may be expected in u very short time,
calling attention to the provisions Of the
law and his purpose to enforce 1t promptly
and thoroughly whenever 1t may be vio-
lated. There Is considerable evidence Of
the good moral effect Of the law in sup
pressing disorders vt the South already
exerted.
Year: 1871

FEvHE UNDERSIGNED GIVES NOTICE TO


the Property Holders of Shasta County, that
in accordance with the requirem nts OF law he has
entered upon the performance of his othcial duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


81 If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath or affirmation. false list of his, or her
their taxable property, or a. false list OF taxabie
property under his, her, their control, such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment ofperJury J;
and any property willfully concealed. removed,
transferred or misrepresented by the owner or any
agent thereof to evade taxation shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount OF tax
for that year. which would otherwise have been
assessed upon 1t and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax when collected shall be paid
to the person PERSONS who shall furnish the
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


If Tax Payers were to have list Of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work.
C. W. TAYLOR,
Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, April I'd, 1871. nd.
Year: 1871

gHvHE IMPRESSION OBTAINS AMONG mary


4 persons that the value of Accident Insurance
be appreciated only by travellers, those
whose avocations are necessarily of a hazardous
nature Still statistics show that one in every
Of the entire population meets with an
Accident every year Every prudent and careful
will act with reference future contingencies.
Bodily injury by accident is of the most fre-
quent Of distress IF distress to man 5 family
if fatal to i'm and to himself also if only dis
abling him from business,


In either this mode of insurance comes to
you with certain relief.


Erery man is liable 10 accident, " Good Luck
cannot always be deperded upon.
The question to be settled precisely the same
as in fire insurance Is it not c2eaper to let a
responsible company take the risk than it is TO
carry it yourself? Is not the protection offered
,c0rth more than il costs.


What Accidents Have to be Paid For.
Year: 1871

A Western editoc who saw
an item to the effect that
Rhode Island was suffering
from the potato-bug, wanted
to know why the Inhabitants
didn't turn out with their sol
diers and kill the monster.
Year: 1871

CHLoRAL.-It is strange how
widespread is the delusien that
this powerful and frequently
unmanagable drug is a safe
and universal panaeea. Men
and women in every grade Of
life are forming the habit of
using it on the most trivial oc-
casions without directions from
a physician. Men use it to
procure sleep, and women to
calm their nerves.. Its rapid
action, and the fact that it
does not leave behind it the
usual reaction consequent
upon the use of most narcotics,
have given it a wonderful pop
nlarity. And yet both expe-
rience aud the testimony of
medical men have shown it to
be extremely dangerous. The
/, dose that at one time may do
no apparent harm may work
deadly mischief when tried a
second time. The very nature
Of the drug is imperfectly un-
derstood, and it is suspected
by many physicians that it
often uudergoes a change
while tightly bottled, and Sc
becomes a deadly poison The
public cannot be too earnestly
warned against its use, except
under competent direction,
Year: 1871

HARDLY ITALIAN.-The Kalama Bea-
cor thinks our winter climate is not quite
ITALIAN but that it presents remarkable
contrast to the weather on the Atlantic
Aope. Personally we are not posted as
:, the climate of the other Coast; but if
Ais winter is as much of contrast to the
SSGther there as it is to the general win.


& weather here, We pity the unfOrtut
Otes who hare to endure it.
Year: 1871

Kalama is finding fault with the SER
vice Of the mails, and appeals to Mr.. Un-
dSrROOd. the postal agent. Experience
IN the matter does not encourage much
hope for the desired improvement. We
need = change that win raise the mail
service above the convenience of the Col
umbia River Steamboat Company before
an improvement can be hoped for.
Year: 1871

Zens.


The system against which l havo protcsted
which recognizes the public printing as party
spoils, to be seized and divided out among
partisan press, must NECESSARILY corrupt tho
press, corrode the fountains of public intelE-
gence, and strike down everything like purity in
egisation-consequenc fatal to the republic
and If we would avoid them. il is time for every
patriot to be up and doing all he can to correct
the evil Respectfully, &c,


.JNO BANTER
Year: 1871

We make the following extracts from an
editorial in the Boston Transcript:


The outrage at New Orleans, whereby
United States troops were employed against
the delegates favoring Governor Warmoth,
deserves the prompt attention of the ad-


immigration, anu the summary punishment


of all the federal officials responsible for


the disgraceful transaction. Casey, Pack
ard and the rest merit immediate suspen-
sion from their offices for so deceiYing and
imposing upon General Reynolds, then in
Texas, that he lent the military for the use
Of these intriguers. The administration can
not afford TO lose its well-earned fame for
moderation and peace by allowing itself to
be compromised by an implied or never so
remote Endorsement of this altogether un-
Unsuitable act. Let every federal officer at
New Orleans concerned in itbe given notice
to Quit.


There is something quite whimsical in the
efforts made TO fasten upon General Grant
the odium rightly attaching only to his New
Orleans superserVieeable adherents In
good time, the President will snow to the
country that he maintains the same respect
for law he has heretofore shown throughout
his whole career, and is not TO be persuaded,
by any consideration, to employ the mill
tary. except in legitimate way to quell
public disorder, and preserve the reign OF
good government. Those who expect to
ind, IN the occurrences upon which we are
commenting, the evidence of the Presidents
intention TO play the role of a military die
tator, and force himself on the Republican
party as its next Presidential nominee, and
then to secure his election by the ''strong
arm of the nation, will be grievously dis
appointed. Tie President needs not to re-
sort TO such means, or run such risks. In
dications are abundant, on all hands, that
the opposition to him in the Republican
ranks is only nominal; and when he is once
in the field for reelection, what reasonable
grounds are there for supposing he can be
beaten by the Tammany Democracy
Year: 1871

Rumored Attempt to Assassinate the King


of Spain.
PARIS, August 24.-Rumors are current to
the effect that an attempt had been made to
assassinate Amadeus, King of Spain, and
that the king is injured The rumor is not
confirmed.
Year: 1871

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
GOLDEN RULE ROBBERY DISCREDlTED


THE FIVE PER CENT LOAN
ONLY TEN MILLIONS LEFT
MEETING OF EX.CONFEDERATES
Turning Backs Upon the Past
ANNIVERSARY or THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
EMPERORs' MEETING AT GASTEN
ENGLAND WARNED TO WATCH
BARK FROM NEW ORLEANS STRANDED
THE CREW SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A KING
Year: 1871

Bodies Found.


POUGHKEEPSIE, Feb. 13-P. M.
The locomotive was raised tonight even with
the abutment OF the bridge. and viii be landed upon
the track tomorrow All the gearings show that
she was reversed.
No bodies have been found. Polk the diver will
make another descent tomorrow In search OF the
engineer.
Year: 1871

Let me tell you that during nv
six years residence in America I
saw nothing which surprised me
so much as the way in which the
Yankees eat and drink. WHY, I
really think it is worth an admis-
sion fee to stand st the end o,
dlning-room and see a hundred
Yankees at the dinner table Each
one has something to eat in one
hand and something to drink in
the other. When the food hand
goes up, the drink hand is down,
and when the food hand goes down
the drink hand goes up 1t always
reminds me of one of those walk
ing beams on a steamboat when
one end is up the other end is
down Now, sir, l think this is
the reason that the American peo-
pie are such dyspeptics. Why,
sir, believe that in a worlds ex-
hibition Of dyspeptics your country
could show more in number. and
stronger in quality, than all ,he
rest Of the world Dio Lewis' 3
Talks About Peoples .S,omacAs.
Year: 1871

A Chicago youth fell in love with
a Colorado maid, whose father
was 80 opposed to The proceedings,
that he drove the young man from
his house with wrath and revol-
yer Upon this the earnest youth
had the stern parent arrested for
threatening his life; and when
the old gentleman was safely lock-
ed up, by the judicious use of ten
dollar bill. he induced the same
justice OF the peace who had i'm
prisoned the father, to marry him
to the daughter. This done, the
old man was brought up for t;ial-
when he concluded to swap forgive
ness with his enterprising son in
law, who thereupon magnanimous-
ly withdrew his complaint.
Year: 1871

ONLr 4 GRAIN or SAHD.-A man
who had for years carried an old
and cherished watch about him.
one day called on its maker, and
told him it Was no longer useful,
for it would not keep time correct
ly


Let me examine it. said the
maker; and taking power glass,
he looked carefully and steadily
into the works. till he spied just
one little grain Of sand.


Il have it. he said. i can ge.
over your difficulty
About this moment. by some
powerful but unseen power, the lit
lie grain suspecting what was
coming, cried out, Let me alone!
l am but small thing. and take
mp so little room. cannot posi-
hly injure the watch. Twenty or
thirty of US might do harm, but |
cannot, SO let me alone


The matchmaker replied, You
must come out, for you spoil my
work, and all the more so, that
you are so small, and but few
people can see you


Thus it is with us, whether chill
dren or elders-one lie, one feeling
of pride, vanity, or disobedience,
may be such a little one that none
but ourselves know of it; yet God
who sees all things knows it, and
that one sin, however little it may
appear, will spoil all our best ef-
forts in His service
Year: 1871

HAsH.-Itis related that a board
ing-house keeper in Arkansas was
once disturbed by report that his
boarders were mutinous because of
the too frequent appearance of
hash on the breakfast-table. Ac-
cordingly he descended to breaa-
fast the next morning, laid one
portentous pistol On each
side OF his plate at the head of the
table, and said: Amy gentleman
who says he don't like hash. lies
MIR. Brown hc continued, turning
to the nearest boarder, will you
take hash ?
Year: 1871

A sly old deacon, wishing to
give his pastor a hint to put more
juice into his sermons, said to him
one day, 4 must get a seat nearer
the pulpit, for by the time your
W rds reach my ears, the people in
front OF me have so taken the pith
cut of them that they are as dry as
dish water.
Year: 1871

Josh Billings says, Most p eople
decline to learn only by their own
experience. and guess they are
more than halt right, for don't
spose q man could get correct
idea OF molasses candy merely by
letting another feller taste it for
him
Year: 1871

Forsyth, Georgia, can claim the
champion beat. Finding himself
bad off for his regular invigorator,
he put gallon of water in two
gallon demJohn, and presented
himself at the grocery, asked for
gallon of whisky. 1t was duly
enclosed in the dcmijohn, but of
course there was no trust, and the
liquor had to be returned. A
gallon was poured out, and the
beat went on his way rejoicing in
the possession of a half gallon of
good grog He turned up drunk
an hour atterward.


He took her fancy when he
came he took her hand; he took
kiss; he took no notice of the
shame that glowed her happy
cheek at this. He took to cominr
afternoons he took an oath he'd
ne'er deceive; he took her fathers
silver spoons; and after that he
took his leave.
Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inclined to
extreme bitters, and is intended for use in
cases when some alcoholic stimulant is re-
quired in connection with the Tonic proper
ties of the Bitters. Each bottle of the Tonic
contains one bottle OF the Bitters, combined
with pure SANTA Cruz Rum, and favored in
such manner that the extreme bitterness of
the Bitters is overcome, forming a prepara-
ton highly agreeable and pleasant to the pal
ate, nd containing the medicinal virtues OF
the Bitters. The price of the Tonic is $3.50
per bottle, which many persons think too
high. They must take into consideration that
the stimulant used is guaranteed to be of a
pure quality. poor article could be fur
nished at cheaper price, but is it not better
to pay a little more and have good article ?
medicinal preparation should contain none


but the best ingredients, and they who ex-


pect to obtain cheap compound will most


certainly be cheated.


They are the Greatest known Rem
aAiRS
Year: 1871

Soue writer says, and with truth, that
the strong attachment of subscribers to
we'll conducted newspapers is fully con-
6rmed by publishers. Stop my paper.
words of dread to new beginners in the
business, lose their terror after paper
has been established term of years. so
long as paper pursues just, honorable
judieious course, meeting the wants of
its customers in all respects. ties of
friendship between its subscribers and the
paper are ss hard to break by any out
side third party as the links which bind
old friends in business or social life.
Occasional defect and errors 10 a news
paper are overlooked by those who have
become attached to it through perusal
for years. They msy sometimes get dis
satisfied with it on account of something
which has slipped into its columns, and
may stop taking il; but the absence Of
the familiar sheet at their house or Office
for few weeks becomes an insupport-
able deprivation, and they hasten to take
it again, aud possibly apologize for have
ing stopped it. This We believe to be
the common experience in the history
of all established newspapers. No friend
ship on earth is more constant than that
contracted by the reader for Journal
which makes an honest effort to meri,
his continued support.
Year: 1871

MR EDIToR:-I see that the County


Court is awake and alive to the true in
terests of eur county, in improving the


condition OF our roads, aud will soon


take action to have all the bottoms and


bad places ditched and placed in good


order. This is commendaDle, and should


receive the support of every good citi


zen of our community. as upon this de-


pends the amount of business done in


our county, aud the inducements held


out for investments in either produce or


land. No one thing does so much to


build up and advance the true interests


of country as good roads and facilities


for getting 20 market with our products.


Not one fourth ,f the land in our coun


ty is in cultivation, and we never will


induce emigration here to clear up aud


improve the same, till the country wakes


up and puts inaction all its powers for


development, the most essential of which


is good roaS.~nd n means wholly with


in our power | have never seena coun-
try where so little work was required as
here to accomplish this object The
writer of this we'll remembers when the
State road in front of the farm of John
II. Tyler, and the Dresden road in front
of K. G. Prather, and the State Line
road in front of John Shepherds, we're
the worst places in this county, and yet
by the private enterprise and individual
labor of the late j. p. Tyler, in the one
case. and that of Prs.her and Shepherd,
in the others, have rendered that portion
of our roads good and amongst the best
in our county, and at comparatively tri-
fling expense Those men deserve the
utmost credit for their labors and the
success of their efforts, for it is a living
example of what may be done, if our
citizens generally would but adopt their
plan.


If the citizens would take hold of this
matter, and the surveyors of the roads in
the county would adopt this plan-ditch
and throw up the roads-we would have
good roads, throughout the same, but if
not, we trust that our County Court will
have the nerve to require them to do il,
IN all the bottoms aud through the mud
iy, spouty lanes.


And while upon this subject, I will
say that one of our Magistrates who
passes over the State road in coming to
town, assures me, that there is no place
on the road as bad as the Harrison
Hill, within the corporation. Will not
Dur city fathers take hold of this and
remedy the evil2 When the ground is a
little wet and slippery, not over half
Ioad can be pulled up that hill, and it is
wrong, when Hickman is recipient of
the country business aud trade. that
barrier should be left, or found, when
we reach the corporation limits, and one
too that can be so readily and cheaply
remedied.


A continuation of Moscow Avenue
straight out, or . road round by the old
depot would remedy the evil complained
of and at triiing expense.


Will not our corporate authorities
turn their attention to this complaint
from the ecouniry-when We are SO deeply
interested in it2 d.
Year: 1871

dents.


Carl Schurz understands better than do
some AmeTicans-snd the more shame
to them the danger there is in investing
q military leader with unconstitutional
powers under the supposition that he
can be trusted. No free people should
allow such precedent to be set. Says
the Missouri Senator:


tGive him riches with lavish hand;
cover him all over with gold; steep him
with luxnries; but let not your gratitude
to one make you unmindful of your duty
to ALL l beseech you. let not gratitude
seduce you to throw the laws of the Re
pubic at bis feet.


mo nation deserves to be free and
great, no nation will remain free and
great-nay. sir, that nation has already
ceased to be free and great. that will pay
debt of gratitude at the expense of its
constitutional rights and liberties.
Year: 1871

A FEARFUL cattle plague is raging in
some Of the South American States, and
the hide crop Of the next twelve months
will be enormous. There are grounds
for apprehension that the epidemic will
be imported With tbs hsdss.
Year: 1871

VI SuuANSs


WASHINGTON, January lS.-The
House, in committee of the whole, yes
terday, finally went through the Legis-
lative and Executive appropriation bill,
and reported it to the House


There was long debate on motion
to increase the salaries Of Circuit and
District Judges, each one thousand
dollars, and it was finally lost 1t is
now feared that when the amendment
made in committee of the whole, in
creasing the salaries OF the Supreme
Court Judges, comes up to-day, 1t may
be beaten. A separate vote has been
called for on it,and the result has some
what weakened the feeling in favor OF
increasing the salaries OF any Judges.
With few exceptions the Democrats
propose to vote against it.


The Income Tax.


Judge Kelly yesterday received
copies of an opinion adverse to the
constitutionality Of the income tax
given by Hon. w. NJ. Evarts and
Spencer Miller. Judge Kelly will lay
this opinion before the committee on
WAYS and Means, and will ask fol
designation of an early day, when the
parties in favor of the repeal Of the tax
may be heard in that interest. The
committee must report ere long In
response to the resolution Of the House
directing inquiry into the expediency o.
the repeal.


Land Grabbers Delaying Business
Of Congress.


The House has not gone to business
upon the Speakers table during the
present session. Never before have sia
weeks of the short session passed with
out the House going to the table fol
reference to and action upon bills
passed by the Senate. There are now
torty-seven Senate bills upon the table
many of which are important, and
would be passed if they could be sepa
ted from twenty-three land grant bills
with which they are overlaid and in
terspersed. The majority of the House
refuses to touch the pile on the table fol
fear the land jobbers will succeed II
getting through their schemes by making
a combination Of all members who's
districts is interested in any of the pro
posed grants with the solid carpet,bas
vote, a large proportion OF whose Con
gressional career ends the fourth o
March. Meanwhile the friends Of th'
land grants will not consent to have an.
bill taken from the table for action ou
of its order, and hope to force their OF
ponents to begin at the top of the Pill
upon the Speakers table, and work OF
all the bills in the general rush Of tn
last night of the session.
Year: 1871

IF we bury thermometer fifty feet
below the surface Of the earth the
mercury will remain at the same point
tho year round, in winter and summer
showing that the influence Of the sun
does not reach below that depth. If
we carry the thcrmomotor fifty feet
lower, the mercury will rise one de-
gree, and will rise in the same ratio
for every fifty feet wo go down 1t
can be easily calculated at what depth
all known substances will melt This
would not exceed fifty miles. 1t will
bo thus seen that tho crust--or solid
part-of the earth is exceeding thin,
in proportion to the diameterj not 50
thick as au egg shell, in proportion to
the egg. With q crust so thin aud
constantly cooling, and producing a
pressure upon the internal masses, II
is not strange that the bed Of the
ocean should be elevated 10 single
day, and whole cities have been sunk
in the same space Of time. The side
ofa v,lcanoo mountain once broke
away, and the livid masses flowed out,
forming a river twelve miles wide


which, in its course, melted down 81,
hills 900 feet high, filing up valley
600 feet deep, aud spreading over
surface 100 square miles.
Year: 1871

We are indebted to valued friend for very
fine description Of the great fire in London in
1865, compiled and condensed from authentic
records, and regret its length and the late hour
at which it was received precludes its publica-
tion in the present number. It will appear In
our next