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Year: 1871

A GIFT ENTERPRISE FOR TRINITY.-For some
days past, many of the prominent citizens of
tnis county have been discussing the feasibility
of Gift Enterprise to aid in the commencement
and construction of the Stuarts Fork Ditch
We learn that they have finally concluded to
t'set the ball in notion and that those who
are to take the initiatory steps will meet in few
days to arrange the prelimnaries SO far, moth
ing has been decided definitely, but it is pro-
posed to sell 100, 900 tickets at So so each, anG
to present liberal scheme, reserving about $780,
600 for the benefit of the ditch. Men of promin-
ence and means are to take charge of the enter
prise and the public rest assured that every
thing will be conducted in a fair and business
like manner. AS to the ditch, we have referred
to it and the benefits to be derived from its con-
struction so frequently, that it is unnecessary to
say anything more at present. 1t is an absolute
necessity to the county, and with a starter of
500, 900 we believe that it can be built. When
the scheme is matured and everything in readi-
ness we propose to fully rehearse the advantages
to be derived from this ditch. AS to the Gift
Enterprise, many other towns have started SINH
lar ones and succeeded in carrying them to a
successful termination, and as the object here is
laudable, we see no reason why this one cannot
be made a complete success.
Year: 1871

SAFE AND SoUND.-As we predicted last week,
Cush Given and Johnny Colbert turned up all
right. The drowned horse which was found,
and which caused the report as to Cush S prob
able death, belonged to a mail rider who was
drowned some time since. Expressman Clifford
says that Nit Myers saw Mr.. Given and had a
long talk with him and that he had decided not
to purchase any hogs but buy beef cattle, with
band of which he is now en- route for junction
City, where he is expected to arrive in few
days We could not believe that we would
never see our old friend Cush again. but still
safe
Year: 1871

JUNCTION Cry SToRE.-Inanother column will
be found the advertisement of Kuper, Karsky &
Co., of Junction City. They claim to have the
best assortment of general merchandise in the
county. People of that section can find any
thing that may be wanted at their store-from q
cambria needle to crow-bar. Mr.. Karsky in
tends going to San Francisco next week, for the
purpose of purchasing supply of Spring goods
for both the Weaverville and Junction City
stores. Look out for big announcement and
splendid assortment of merchandise in two or
three weeks from this time.
Year: 1871

GLAD TO HEAR IT.-Expressman Scanlan tells
us that Mr.. j. A. Burger is doing better this
Winter, in his claim on Canyon Creek, than ever
before. He manages to pick up about $50 per
day to the hand in nuggets and lets the " small
fry pass into the bedrock bitches and Aume
We are also told that Adam is certain that this
pay will hold out, as he has already prospected
several hundred feet in advance of where he is
now working Canyon Creek always was ore
of the best mining sections in the county and it
still holds this reputation. They have some of
the very best of water-rights, and plenty of
ground that has never been prospected.
Year: 1871

LOUIS RAAB's team has been running this
week, carrying new goods to his Junction City
store. Louis is bound to keep supply on hand
and don't intend that the people of that section
shall be without q grub
Year: 1871

JUDGE FELrER returned Thursday evening from
visit to Junction City. He says the river is
higher at that place now than it has been for
two years and that it has not been much higher
than at present since 1861.
Year: 1871

New RIvER.-From a private letter received
here from New river we learn that the miners
generally are doing well, and that they have
had great deal more water than in other por-
tions of the county John Reach is reported to
have done exceedingly we'll in his claim this
Winter
Year: 1871

CHOICE BACON AND LARD.--Hocker received
this week lot of excellent A No. bacon and
lard put up in Shasta county this season. Hook
tells us that he ordered the best to be had re-
gardless of price.
Year: 1871

JUNCTION CrrY.-We paid short visit to juno
ton City last Saturday and Sunday The miners
were all at work, consequently there were but
few men about town. The proprietors of the
Carter House attend to a traveller as though they
had served thorough apprenticeship at the
business. We found Thede 4 Baumgartner TAX
ing the world easy, Osthoff, Kuper, Gross and
Louis Raab, ditto. Thede lately received let
ter from F. Walter, saying he was closing his
business and should come to California as soon
as that was accomplished. Mr. Walter wrote
from New York and sent Thede handsome
short-stemmed meerschaum. Last week the
skeleton of some mammoth animal was found in
Keno fiat; the greater portion of it was sluiced
away before it was noticed. 1t was found i'm
bedded in a strata of clay and most of the
bones crumbled to pieces upon exposure to the
air. We saw two pieces in tolerable state of
preservation. One of them is supposed to be a
part of the hip joint, and is several times larger
than the corresponding part of largest-sized
OK the other is supposed to be a part of the
animals tuSk. The bone, conjectured to be a
tusk, was about nine feet long, as large as a
mans thigh at the large end and about two and
one-half inches through at the smaller end
These remains are certainly great curiosity,
and could they have been obtained entire would
have been interesting to look at. 1t seems prob
able that the formation in which they were
found is the same as the Union Hill claim of
Marshall, Mason Co., near Douglas City, noted
for developments of q similar character VIM
Cothier & Co. last week struck very rich de-
post on the bench below Keno fiat and it is
believed have just as good ground as that above
them. Keno fiat is paying WE'LL and so are all
the claims that are being worked
Year: 1871

TiP Tor.--As usual, the tip.top holida,
goods are at Cartwrisht's A sight of the
beautiful there is worth quarter. Ladies
like jewelry better than anything else as
presents, Cartwright will sell YOU n set or
piece, just as cheap now as any time during
the wear.
Year: 1871




The Democratic press is suffering
great tribulation in its search of a candi-
late for the presidency who can beat
General Grant. Several such have been
found and advertised. but the Democra
cy is affected with 6ckleness,. the affect
ions of the party arc not steadfast and
its judgement of the ability of the man
who for the moment happens to be b!es-
~ed with favorable mention as he who Il
the possessor of all the qualities neces-
Sarv to accomplish the object sought Is
constantly shifting. We trust that some
body will preserve list ofali the men
who have been passed before the people
eoch as the coming man land if the friend
of these possible candidates have any re-
rsrI for the fame of these d istinguished
;odividuals, they will preserve files OF
Democratic Journals published during
the period when each one was Invested
with the imaginary elements of character
supposed to be necessary to beat Gener-
al Grant in the presidential race. Hav
II run through the entire list of Demo
era from which by any possibility there
can ne candidate selected and having
abandoned the task as hopeless one,
the Democratic file leaders are now ran
sacking the Republican camp IN search OF
\ man on whom to bestow their seduet-
i've smiles and who is willing TO betray
the people by assisting to reconstruct the
disozsanized forces of our political enc
mics and lead them in forlorn hope
Year: 1871

A celebrated writer says: All horses
must not be fed in the same proportions,
without regard to their ages, their con-
stitutions, and their work, because the.
improperly of such practice is self
evident. Yet it is constantly done, and
is the basis of diseases of every kind.


Never use bad hay on accoust of its
cheapness, because there is not proper
nourishment la it.


Damaged corn is exceedingly injurious,
because it briggs on inflam<nation Of the
bowels and skin diseases.


Chatf is better for old horses than, hay
because they can chew and digest it bet
ter.


Mix chaf with corn or beans, and do.
not give the latter alone, because it makes.
the horse chew his food more, and digest
it better


Hay or grass alone will not support a
horse under hard work, because there is
not sufficient nutritive body in either


When horse is worked hard its food
should chiefly be oats if noS worked
hard, Its food should chiefly be hay, be-
cause oats supply more nourishment and
flesh making material than any other kind
of food hay not so much.


For saddle or coach horse, half a.
peck of sound oats, aud eighteen pounds,
of good hay, are sufficient. If the hay is.
not good, add a quarter of peck more.
oats. A horse which. works harder may
have rather more of each. One that
works little should have less.


Rack feeding is wastssul. The better
plan is to feed with chopped hay, from a
manger, because the food is not then,
thrown about, and is more easily chewed
and digested.


Sprinkle the hay with water that has.
salt dissolved in it, because it is pleasing
to the animals taste, and more easily dr.
gested. A teaspoonful of salt in buck
ct of water is sufficient


Oats should be bruised for an old horse.
but not for young one, because the for
mer, through age and defective teeth.
cannot chew them properly ly the young
horse can do so, and they are thus pro-
perly mixed with the saliva, and turned
into wholesome nutriment
Year: 1871

iAOhi IiO hluuO1C k1uu) llucS


A strange occurrence took place on


last Friday night, at a neighborhood


two miles southeast of Granville.


Among the families residing in the


neighborhood mentioned above is that


of George Stafford, among the most re


spectacle in that section. Mrs. Stafford


has young babe, and since it's birth


has been in very poor health, suffering


of late most intensely from gathered


breast. On the night in question a
number of friends and neighbors had
assembled at the residence of her hus-


band, as it was feared that night
would be her last on earth. In the
forepart of the night she suffered
the most excruciating pain, but about
midnight she became so much better
and felt so much easier, that all retir-
ed. During the evening, however,
there was some conversation about
well one of the neighbors had been
digging, and after events showed that
the conversation had deeply impressed
itself on her mind After all had been
asleep for two hours, Or perhaps more,
some one awoke and made the astonish
ing discovery that the patient was
The household were at once
aroused, and the entire neighborhood
was searched without finding the
least trace of her. The
night was a bitter cold one, and
nothing less than her speedy death was
unless she was speedily
rescued. At length some one suggested
that she might be in the well already
mentioned. Scarcely expecting it to be
the case, and fearing that if it was they
would only find her mutilated corpse,
they proceeded thither A pumpstock
had been put in the we'll In the bot
tom of the well barrel had been sunk,
which was full of water, and some
eighteen inches of water above that. A
rope, with a lantern attached to it, was
let down into the we'll AS it neared
The bottom one of the party saw hand
reach out and clutch at it. A larger
rope, which had been used in drawing
lirt out of the well, was pro
cured, and one of the party descended
20 her resuce. This person found
her in her night clothes, standing ON
,he edge of the barrel. She was speed
ly brought to the surface and taken
nome. Subsequent investigation show
I'd that she must have left her home
md bed in state of delirious uncon-
made her way to the well
spoken of in her hearing, and descend
ID to the bottom of it by means of the
pump. 1t is simply impossible that
ihe could have jumped into the well
without meeting a horrible and speedy
leoth n Subeauuant ayamipo N ~ on ch nu-
ng two severe wounds, one below each
lnee, and both penetrating to the bone,
md both looked as if they had been
made by the edges of the barrel She
had fallen part way down the /
veil. At present her condition is very I
,recarious.
Year: 1871

A NEW paper having been started in
an Indiana town, the editor of the old
paper greeted the new editor with the
following compliment: "He is as
meek as lamb and harmless as mule
and as stupid" and subsequently ad-
dressed him thus: " After making the
charge in his sneaking way, and inter
iaarding it with some hypocritical cogita-
tlons on honesty, beslimed with Gro
codile water shed ON account of the fate
OF the poor, he asks us to copy the arti-
Gle. No, thank you. Your eyes are set
too near the top of your head for cor
respondent Of our paper"
Year: 1871

FROM the Cleveland Leader.


The complete success of The machin


cry employed to drill the Mont Gents


Tunnel has strongly attracted the at


tention of engineers and mechanics to


the subject of compressed air engines


and already it is proposed in this


country to try the experiment of adopt


ing it on large scale. The Mont Gems


machine for cutting and boring the rock,


was mounted on car wheels, and, as


the work progressed, was moved along


the railway track laid in the bottom of


the tunnel. The power which operated


1T was supplied in the form of com


pressed air, which was sent in through
long tubes. The water power of a


mountain stream outside the tunnel


worked the powerful air pumps by


which the air was compressed, and, this


being carried in pipes to the boring


machine far inside the tunnel, at once


set that machine in motion and sup
Piled fresh, pure atmosphere for the


workmen. In precisely the same way
1t is proposed to utilize the wasted
water power in many large American
towns. Take, as an example, the city
OF Rochester, New York, whose water
power is abundant and constant in all
seasons. There it is proposed to erect
water wheels which will run night and
day throughout the year, forcing the
air into a large loaded magazine
like a gasometer From this a
system OF strong underground pipes are
to be laid to the various manufactures
throughout the city where steam is now
used. The first cost of the apparatus
would be, of course, considerable, but,
once erected, power could be furnished
to almost any extent at no higher exl
pense than that required to keep the
water wheels and pumps in order. In
princople, the plan is similar to that of
our own water works, in which one en-
glne pumps water for the houses and
workshops of the entire city, and it is
difficult to see any good reason why it
should not be equally successful. A
writer in the New York Post asserts
that the experiment is certain to be
tired IN the spring at Rochester, and if
that should prove successful an attempt
Will be made to harness the enormous
water power of Niagara for the benefit
OF Buffalo. Should the plan succeed
1t Will have an important effect on the
value of mill sites. Manufactures
could be built upon much more cheap
and convenient sites than is now
possible when all establishments which
use water power must be built upon the
bank OF the stream which supplies it. |
no matter what may be the cost of such |
q location. The other advantages to !
be gained by the new system are
many and important. What is known |
as one horse power" costing, in the
form OF steam, $3.50 per annum, will
then be furnished at an average ex-
pense of Sl2 year, the damage of sud
len and disastrous explosions will be
forever ended, the machinery of manu-
factories greatly simplifed, and the
heat, smoke and noise incident to steam
avoided. With the success
Of the Mont Gents machine as a basis,
here is certainly enough plausibility
n the new plan to command wide in
crest in the result of the experiment at
Rochester


PuTT ATET Do nanfoipo oxra, 400
Year: 1871

There are some very interesting an
ecdotes told Of Queen Elizabeth and
her subjects 1t might interest a few
Of the readers Of this paper to hear
them. Ii is said that once when the
Queen was going to her boat that she
came to q large mud-puddle, and as the
ladies in those days wore white satin
slippers, Queen Elizabeth stopped a
moment, as if not knowing what to do
when Sir Walter Raleigh gallantlg
stepped forward and threw his beanti-
ful satin cloak over the obnoxious pud-
die for the Queen to step on; she inn
mediately knightcd him, and from that
moment he was numbered among her
great court fayorites On another oc-
casion Queen Elizabeth laid wager
with Sir Walter Raleigh 1t was that
he was unable to weigh the smoke
from his pipe. The latter, determined
to win the bet, took the tobacco before
be put it in is pipe, and weighed it !;
he then smoked it, and weighed the
ashes subtracting the weight Of the
ashes from the original weight Of the
tobacco, he concluded that the differ
cnce had evaporatcd into smoke. II is
needless to add that he won the wager
There is an anecdote told of the Earl
Of Essex and the Queen. 1t is said
that one day when the latter had Of
Tended her Majesty, that she boxed his
ears, an insult which the Earl returned
by clapping his hand on his sword, as
though she had been a man, and swear.
ing he would not have taken that, even
from his father, An instance of the
strong attachment that existed between
the Earl Of Essex and Elizabeth, is that
she gave him ring, and told him that
when he needed assistance to send
it to her At length Essex foolishly
endeavored to excite the Londoners TO
rebellion. For this he was condemned
to death, but the Queen would have
pardoned him, had she received the
ring, but it never came, and offended
at Essex's obstinacy, the Queen with a
heavy heart left him to his fate. But
the unhappy Earl had been betrayed


He had given the ring to a lady to be
sent to Elizabeth, hut unfortunately
the ring fell into the hands Of lady
whose husband hated Essex, conse-
quently the Qneen never received the
taisman. She afterwards heard of
this troachery, but alas, it was too
late. There is also an anecdote told
of the Queen and Sir Henry Beding-
field When she was the Princess and
was in the tower, he was her iaier,
and treated her very cruelty, when she
became Queen aud he knelt at her feet
10 ask forgiveness for past conduct, she
said "lhe Queen Of England does not
remember that which happened to the
Princess Elizabeth"
Year: 1871

son on the 4th and 5th, and joined Us
yesterday at Port Gamble, where she
lectured in the evening. Port Gamble
is one of the many numbering establish
ments on the Sound, of which the reader
may get a very accurate idea from the
description given by Captain Crandall
in the OregoRidn some time since; only
the Captain didn't tell that mans idea
that he must support woman is practic-
ally and not theoretically considered
here. The wives of the mill men live in
houses by themselves and the men take
their meals at the company's cook
house, leaving the women nothing to do
but keep their homes. Yet these women
are strong sufIragists, who with one ac-
cord agree with the slave Tom, that
they "would like to have a little more
that is their own and Il little less that is
masters"


Tonight we join the King county del
egates to the Woman Suffrage Conven-
tion, and will proceed to Olympia to fin
ish the work inaugurated there some
two weeks since.
Year: 1871

experience would bring most of them to
their senses"


''Then, why is it that so many of them
are ready TO try the experiment over
again?"


at is simply because they have moth
ing else to do. While society makes no
demand upon man, never saying he
must or must not marry, it says patron
izingly to all women, you must marry!
Marriage is your normal sphere > and
woman, finding nothing else to do,
blindly and ignorantly takes charge of a
man, who thinks Ire is going to support
herr and he does-generally over the
wash-tub and cook stove, from which
narrow sphere she must not bulge, or all
the Grundy's of both sexes will cry out
for shame.'n


TO be con- auod.i
Year: 1871

CHATTER ANVIL.


The county records showed the mar
riage and divorce.
Nothing further remained but an inn |
perative necessity upon my part to rein
state myself in the favor of Mrs. Lewis
and prove to her that her suspicious were
baseless as a dream. For the idle clam
or Of the outside world 1 did not care a
fig.


"What is the world to me, that should
court its fulsome adulatiOn >" said to
my boys.


''The world is something to us, moth
err" was the children's sensible reply.
'It is your duty, for our sakes, to prove
that you are not what the people accuse
you of being"


''But, my dears, if 1 should undergo
the dreadful and disgusting ordeal of at
tempting TO prove my character ire
prOachable and should succeed (which
of course L should do, could not stop
the tongue of slander. The only way to
treat such stories, is to let them die a
natural death. But with Mrs Lewis
the case is different. She was my friend
in my afiliction and 1 must cling to her
now in hers"


But this was easier said than done.
Her pride and affections had been sorely
wounded. OF the fact that her mothers
betrayer was her fathers son, she was
happily ignorant. Nothing was in the
way Of our speedy reunion but this un-
fortunate estrangement, and was firm
in my resolve to overcome this one inn
pediment to my future happiness before
the nuptials should proceed.


William was naughty and determined
He had never spoken with the man VIII,
had blighted his childhood by the deel
wrong inflicted upon his elder sister
He did not know until he learned tn
truth from my lips that DR.. Armstron
had caused his release from prison
soon as he found that the real Offende
was his own unfortunate son. Thi
knowledge seemed to soften his dislike
and prevailed upon him to accompan
me to the Doctors handsome home.


There was look of Loneliness and deS
Olation around the place which L ha
never seen before. Mrs. Lewis, the sen
sible and charming widow, was nowher
to be seen. The Doctor was sitting i
one of the parlors in an untidy blouse
his shaggy face was livid and his has
gard eyes were bloodshot.


Hand in hand we stood before him
my betrothed and l.


'Dr. Armstrong" said /, solemnI,
"we have come to crave your blessin,
to forgive the past, to tender life-lon
friendship and to beg that you will he;
the estrangement between your daugl
ter and myself You know that a
guiltless. Will you make my troubl,
friend believe it?"


The Doctor tremblingly arose an
taking the hand of each of us in b
own, he asked forgiveness, if throul
Year: 1871

OCEAN DRIFT.-A bottle was recently
picked up on the south beach Of the
island of Key West, with Il memOran-
dunn enclosed, showing that it had been
thrown overheard from a Norwegian
brig at point six hundred miles to
the eastward of the Island of Martinique.
From an examination of the chart it
appears that this bottle, driven by the
currents known as the drift of Northeast
trade winds, must have passed into and
through the Caribbean Sea around the
Island of Cuba and into the Gulf of
Mexico to the beach at Key West. This
long course covers a distance of nearly
three thousand miles, and from the date
on the memorandum the rate of progress
of the bottle must have been over thir-
teen miles a day, it having been driven
along by the currents for two hundred
and eighteen days.
Year: 1871

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Devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion


Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
OF the Masses