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Year: 1871

A MERE touch of fame, and then it
goes, on the hearth, first a mere fringe of
flame on the edge of dense smoke, but in
a minute the smoke is gone, and the flame
is running merrily through every crevice
of the wood This is the fire in its amia-
BILE mood.


Sometimes it sulks. 1t will not be coax
ed. The whole house is cold The
shivering children are crying. The wood
is green. There are no kindlings. The
poor widowed mother lays the green oak
wood upon the few gathered embers, and
STOPPING to the Goals, blows with Ler own
scant breath, to bring the fire to fame.
The sickly blaze hovers a minute, seems
not to like the prospect, and vanishes.
All, the cold winter mornings in the
houses of the poor Like all other things,
fire seems to bedocile to those who have
enough, and fractious to all who suffer
lack.


But what generous and frank way a
good fire OF wood-the royal hickory
has The space above is all flame the
space below, solid Goals of fire; while the
middle space is filed with net-word of
brilliant effects, on which one might gaze
for hours with delight. We do not under
value the artificial fireworks, and enjoy as
much as any other boy of our years the
grand displays OF emulous pyrotechnists
But, after all, there is more homely pleas
ure in gazing into transmutations, the
figures in the Goals, the showers of sparks,
the coquetting flames, that wink and blink
along the edges of the fire, than in all the
transient glory of wheels and rockets. A
fire is so domestic! 1t is so obliging, so
benevolent, so obedient so open-hearted!


Don't trust to Appearances The maid
mat iaH arfh af Of has
Only yesterday you said TO the husband,
Be sure and bring home an iron pail for
ashes. Bridget has nothing but the wooden
pail" 1t was forgotten. The ashes were
cold. There was no tire-at least only
mere spark. That lay near the wooden
bottom. 1t got hold of the wood. 1t was
not in haste. A whole hour it was in per-
suading the wood to partnership. Little
by little it ate through To the air Then it
took courage, got out upon the floor, ran
into the base board, and crept up the par
titiOn. All night it mined and wrought !;
and too late, when the outcry was raised it
had gained a victory, Down went the
roof Down went the walls. Away went
the small household treasures


If thou art poor, here is tive-Years
blow. 1t may be a setback for life. If
thou art rich, money will rebuild, Yet
there are some things that money cannot
do. 1t cannot make Il cradle in which
your children laid. 1t cannot bring back
the little couch ON which your boy lay di,
viuely beautiful before the dust returned
TO dust 1t cannot give you back the lit
tie s0ugenirs Of friendship, nor the pic
lures that you have looked at in joy and
in sorrow, till they seemed to became part
ners of your inward life. A home is not
built by money, but by the heart, Money
Year: 1871

THESE must be baked in iron pans, each
little pan partitioned by itself, as they will
not rise if baked in mass. Remove the
cream from sweet milk, and for sufficient
quantity for two pans, add one egg and
salt; stir in the flour slowly until some
what thicker than pancake batter; beat
thoroughly, as it will add TO their lightness;
have the oven very hot, rs they must bake
in fifteen or twenty minutes, or they will
not be light; place the pans on the stove,
and when hot, butter, and with the spoon,
drop each little pan full place Immediate
ly In the oven. Garry TO table hot. Cold
gems steamed or warmed are nearly as
good as when fresh They should be on
every table, for even dyspeptics can eat
them with impunity. Western Rural
Year: 1871

THE Boston 1rarelsr saysi "a lady.
who had been boarding at Southern
Hotel among sick and dying Northern
people, writes indignantly to her friends
about the cruelty Of sending hopeless in
valids away from the convenience and com
forts of home, 10 suffer and die among
strangers, without any home comforts and
alleviations. And yet, physicians are con
tinually doing this same thing. Having
patient for whom they can do nothing,
they send him South, with the delusiye
hope of recovery, when there is nothing
before him but a sad and solitary death,
away from homo and friends In the in
cipient stages OF disease, and when the
patient is well enough TO take care of him
self, aud to bear without great suffering
the rough and tumble of "a life abroad
il may be an excellent prescription TO try
a Southern climate but where disease has
got firm hold, the cases are very few Ia
which an experiment is advisable or safe"
Year: 1871

The people of California are to decide
at the next election whether they will
accept an amendment to their State
Constitution which provides that the
Legislature shall have no power to
make an appropriation Of money for
any purpose whatever for a longer
period than two years.
Year: 1871

ess What fur
did you fool me fur last night you pro-
mist to go walkin with me and you full
ed me and went to the fare with that
long legged - don't do so no
more for luv you morn can tell If yu
want me agin. for your one true. lover
wunst more will be and if you don't
lie drouned miself ded in the canawa
river and you'll be sorry cause you tole
me mite love you and yude be tru to
me forever, now rite to me or lie be
six or ded your broke harted luver


G. -
Year: 1871

A young man of the name Of Joseph
recently tickled q young lady in church
on North Bars Island in Ohio. The
lady squealed, and the preacher barred
his arm and sailed into the worshippers
powerful" He said women and men
should no more sit together under the
:droppings of his sanctuary. But, even
with the possibility OF being tickled.
before their eyes, the ladies refused to
be separated, and on the very next
evening all sat together. The preacher
was indignant, and brought the male
portion of his congregation before
justice of the peace. A jury was de-
manded, and no juror shonld be amen
ber of the church. Three days the
trial lasted, but at last the oppressed
went free, and now in church they
tickle each other as of yore, to keep
awake in an amusing manner.
Year: 1871

A suicide, which is shown by the
evidence to have been very shocking
case, came to the knowledge Of Coroner
Jones on Friday The Coroner was
notified in the usual way that young
man had committed suicide at his resi-
lence in Pacific street, and that it
would be necessary for him to hold an
inquest over his remains.


The Coroner visited the house in
question and found the body of the uar
fortunate victim, Mr.. Frederick d. Og-
den stretched across the doorway in
The basement, and the floor covered
with blood, which had gushcd from
ghastly wound in his throat, Coroner
Jones said he meyer saw more shock
ing spectacle. The deceased was about
twenty-eight years of age and resided
with his mother and sister. He was
very intellectual young man, but was
at times subject to fits of melancholy.
He was the nephew of Judge Edmonds,
the great Spiritualist, of New York,
and who has been engaged as counsel
for him in some real estate transactions.


The loss of some property appeared
to affect the mind Of the deceased to
such an extent that it became apparent
to his relatives and friends that his
mind was deranged. The best ply
sicians were summoned, and they ad-
vised him to travel. He did so for
some months, but it did not have a
beneficial effect, and he reached home
even more melancholy than when he
left it. His mother and sister deemed
it advisable to keep all sharp instru-
ments beyond his reach. On Friday
his sister requested him to get some
coal from the cellar. On reaching the
basement he found his mother cutting
some bread with a large knife, and i'm
mediately made an attempt to take it
from her. She clung to it with all the
1 strength she possessed and screamed
for assistance. Being unable to get the
knife from her he got the blade in such
a position that he could draw his throat
across it, and did SO, despite her efforts
to prevent him. He pressed his throat
upon the blade with such strength that
it cut his head half off. His sister,
hearing the cries of her mother, ran
down stairs and raised his head up,
when the blood spurted over her mother
and herself. He fell upon the floor
and noundered about until he reached
!; the doorway; where he stopped, and
after lying a few moments he breathed
his last. -
Year: 1871

members of the House of an attempt
to expel him from the House, not on
the charge of bigamy, but for things
which he admitted during the trial,
but the session is SO short that the
subject will probably be allowed to
pass.
Year: 1871

Clark Mills visited Gen. Grant lately,
for the purpose of getting from him an
authentic account of the particulars at
tending the surrender of Gen. Lee, to
aid him in his proposed work of the
representation of that event in relief for
his monument. On this point the Pres
ident said f haH ~


Lee came in with flag of truce to see
on what terms we would receive his sur
render. stated the terms, and Lee said,
please reduce that to writing" | took
some manifold paper and made several
copies, and handed one to him, saying,
There, / believe that is about as
talked, Lee read it and signed, and
then passed it back to me and signed it.
The manifold copies were then distributed
to several Generals. The transaction took
place in front of my tent and with little
pine table between US. To remark Of
Mills that he had seen picture repre-
senting the surrender as having taken
place in a room with a carpeted floor,
and in the midst of the staff officers Of
both armies, Grant replied that the pic
ture was gotten up to show off the aids.
That was more like the turning over OF
the surrendered forces on the next day,
but the real surrender took place as
above stated
Year: 1871

A workingman, who spent his even
ings at the tavern, once persuaded his
dog, who had followed him, to swallow
some liquor 1t made the poor brute
tipsy, and he tumbled over. and played
such queer antics that the topers roared
with laughter.


The next night the man took his dog,
so as to have some more fun, but when
they got to the door the animal would go
no further. They coaxed and drove and
the tavern-keeper broughtNut some cake;
but it was all of no use. Caesar had
taken the pledge; one trial of the liquor
was enough for him. He was not 20 be
caught in a rum-trap the second time.


1t proved to be as good as temper
ance lecture to all those topers. Caesar S
master was never known to enter tav-
ern again. He made up his mind that
he ought to know as much as his dog;
and some of the other topers followed
his example. . ~


Know as much as dog We some
times hear of some men who are drunk
as a beast. But beasts don get drunk
They are wiser in this srespect than some
men rr .IN
Year: 1871

Hon. A. S. Wood, member of the
Legislature from Yazoo county, and who
has been patient for several months in
the Lunatic Asylum, committed suicide
on Sunday evening last about eight
o clock, by hanging himself from an iron
bar of his room window. He employed
for the purpose long towel, such as is
used on rollers, one end of which he fas-
tened to the bar, and making a loop Of
the other end. placed it around his neck.
His head, when found, rested against the
window sill, the distance from which to
the floor of the room being about three
feet. He evidently threw the full weight
of his body on the towel in a desperate
resolve to make the work quick and
effectual He had been seen in the pas
sage about fifteen minutes previous, and
was found dead by one of the attendants
who had entered the room with medicine.


The deceased was a native of Vermont,
and thirty-six years of age. He was
committed to the Asylum soon after the
adjournment of the Legislature; had
frequently applied for a razor, and on
one occasion was detected putting a
carving-knife in his pocket while at table
The deceased had informed the Superin
tendent that he had fit of insanity about
fifteen years ago, and that the disease
was hereditary.
Year: 1871

The LOCK- STITCH which it
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
recurring oNE-THIRp LESS cotton than
any otler kind of stitch. Being thesame
ON both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear
Year: 1871

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right--which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operator require
an inclination of the body forward (detri-
mental to health) and are hard andfire-
some to use.
Year: 1871

Prineipal and interest payable in GOLD COIN,


as authorized by ordinance Of the General
Council of the city, for the purpose of funring
a like amount Of the due debt Of the city, are
Year: 1871

y The symptoms of Liver


Complaint are uneasiness


and pain in the side. Some


times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels


in general costiye, some
stimes alternating with lax
1 with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation of hay
ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility and low
Con, aftn, rs many IF
Year: 1871

most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through TI life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view the mind
becomes shudowcd with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is bIightcd with our own.
Year: 1871

PARIS: 1t is very difficult to arrive at just
conclusion upon tie condition of affairs that
prevailed IN Paris previous to and just after
the surrender. One S own common sense, and
his appreciation Of the possible, might frame a
satisfactory idea Of the state of things in the
besieeed and sore pressed French capita. which
would probably approximate to the. truth
One might imagine that here was weeping and
suffering, there indifference and sufhciency OF
the physical needs of man here bravado, and
recklessness, there terror and melancholy.
But, as we read the romancing stories OF cor
respondents, the Parisians are made to present
themselves In so great a variety of guises that
they appear to have dropped all mere human
characteristics, and to have como out IN the
garb of the 'heayy villain Of the meiodrama
or in the motley array of participants ina car
niyal.


A stray correspondent, who managed to work
his way into Paris immediately after the arms
tice, was at first threatened by some drunken
Gardes Nationales as being Prusslan. Els,
Gaping this danger, he sought lodgings, and
gave to his entertainers a ham which he had
brought with him in his haversack. The ham
was eaten in short order, and, the rumor OF the
repast spreading abroad, the neighbors. flock
ed in to take a look at the bones and to inspect
those who had eaten the rare delicacy. Wash,
RhIOt
Year: 1871

Especially, who have become the Victims, OF
Solitary Vice, and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to an untimely
grave thousands of young men of the most eY-
allied talents and brilliant intellect who might
otherwise have entranced listening Senates with
the thunders of eloquence, or walked to extacy
the living Tyre may call with full confidence.
Year: 1871

HELDACHE-MiX half and hall Of Renne's
Magic Oil aud water, and sAturase the head
with the mixture, then put q few drops Of
! the Oil clear, on the temple and where the
pain is severest also swallow 3 or drops
Of the Oil, If sick at the stomach then find
your pain if you can
Year: 1871




The course of Gen. Grant has pro-
voked strong opposition for leading Re-
publican organs. He is growing weaker
and weaker in sections of the country
where he had hoped to become the stron-
gest. The Chicago Tribune concludes a
lengthy critical article on Grants course
as follows:


ssThe President went into Office with a
very emphatic assurance that he would
have no policy to enforce against the
will of the people. 1t cannot be doubt
ed that his Missouri interference and his
San Domingo policy are both departures
from this pledge. Whenever a Presi-
dent or faction seeks to imperialize the
theory of our government, or of the Re-
publican party, by preaching the duty of
the many to obey the one, just so often
the very essence of republican can
always be distinguished from the var
nished imitation by the course he will
take"
Year: 1871

The San Domingo commission is full,
and will leave New York this week, in
a Government steamer for the eastern
end of the Island of Hayti, where the
Job is located. The commission is q
better one than We expected, but for all
that the President probably has private
assurances. Old Ben. Wade heads it,
and as he has been out on poor pasture
for long time, is likely to do any thing
that will meet with favor in the Kings
eyes. President White, of Cornell, New
York; University, and DR.. Howe, a well
known philanthropist of Boston, are the
other members, with Allen G.. Burton,
formerly minister to Bolivia as Secreta-
ry. They will probably make what viii
appear to the public fair presentation
of one side of the question, taking the
President real estate auctioneer's puff of
the island, in his message, as text
But will have to look elsewhere than in
the report for the whole truth as to the
character of the inhabitants, the con-
slant civil wars in progress on the Island,
and the financial and political response
bilities that will follow its acquisition.
Year: 1871

We find the following in the Builder:
"One ounce. of gum sandarac and one
ounce of mastic are to be dissolved to-
gether IN pint Of alcohol, to which an
ounce Of white turpentine is to be added.
At the same time very thick glue is to
be kept ready mixed with little ISM
glass. The solution Of the resin in al
cohol is to be heated to boiling in n glue
pot, and the glue added gradually with
constant stirring, so as to render the
whole mass homogeneous. After the
mixture is strained through cloth, it is
ready for use, and is to be applied hot


1t dres quickly and becomes very hard,
and surfaces of wood united by it do
not separate when Immersed in water.
Year: 1871

A LARGE TRANSACTION. BY last Wednesday
evenings stage there arrived in town Mr.. James
Madden, an agent of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company, who filed, with our County Clerk,
document TO be recorded which covers more
Ground and is intended to secure larger amount
of money than any instrument which ever before
found its way into the Recorders Office of this
county This document is Land Trust Mort
gage, to which the Central Pacific Railroad
Company is party of the first part, and Charles
Crocker and Silas w. Sanderson are parties of
the second part. 1t was executed October
lst, 1870, and was acknowledged on the 3lst
of the same month before Charles J. Torbert
Notary Public of this State anG Commissioner
of Deeds for the State of Nevada and the Terri
tory of Utah. 1t appears from its terms and
tenor that the object of its execution was to ena-
bic the party of the first part to raise means to
complete their San Joaquin Valley Railroad
from Lathrop to Vsalia, and their California
and Oregon Railroad from Rosevile to the
Northern boundary of this State. For this pur-
pose they issue and entrust to the parties of the
second part ten thousand bonds of one thou
sand dollars each-repreSentlng altogether ten
million dolars-runnng twenty years with in
terest at six per cent, per annum, principal and
interest made payable in United States gold coin,
at the city of New York. For the purpose of Sc
curing the payment of this amount the indenture
mortgages all of the lands of the Railroad Com
pany except such as are necessary for right of
way, machine shops, depots, etc Each of these
bonds bears a one dollar revenue stamp which
item alone, on the whole number of bonds, will
amount to the neat little sum of ten thousand
dollars. Besides this, the cost of printing, At
torneys fees, Recorders fees and other Incl
dental expenses will amount to considerable in
the aggregate, and taken altogether, there has
been quite fortuue paid out by the company
for the simple recording of this one document.
The reason for this mortgage being recorded in
this county is that the law requires it to be done
in every county in which any of the land is sit
uated, and as portion Of the land granted is
within the limits of Trinity county, it necessar-
lily had to be brought here for record
Year: 1871

How THE BASIN WAS FoRMED Mr. Isaac Wood
bury tells US that when be first came to Weaver
vile, in 1858, the Indians here had tradition
that Trinity river formerly ran through where
the Basin now is, and at that time Old Baly
lowered great deal higher than now The dig
gers, he says, informed him that there was a
venerable aborigine, then living, supposed to oe
more than one hundred years old, who had fire.
quently heard in his childhood tale of how a
remarkable change had taken place in the sur
face of this locality. The story ran that many
years ago Trinity river flowed peacefully along
the base of the mountain range that skirts the
northern portion of the Basin. Upon its banks
dwet numerous and contented tribe, happy
and strangers to want. One ill-fated day, dark
clouds filled the sky; the earth trembed and
opened on all sides as if gaping for victims /;
the top of Old Bally tumbled down on every
handi the river was crowded ont of its channel
and changed its course. The rightened and be-
wldered redskins could find no way of escaping
from this complication of terrors; turn which
way they would they were confronted either by
the rushing food wide impossible opening
in Mother Earth. To end with nearly the whole
of the tribe were swallowed up or swept away
We have heard many theories advanced as to
probable manner in which this Basin had been
formed but think that this is the most commend
able of any. No doubt there is considerable
truth in the tradition.
Year: 1871

The agent of the " Automatic Clothes Washer
and Boiler" is still in town, but will remain
only short time longer, His invention has
been tested by many of our lady friends during
the past week, and all who have purchased a
boiler, are more than satisfied with their invest
ment. Don't let your wife rub and scrub her
life out any longer, but buy one of the new boil
ers and let her make washing pass-time rather
than laborious task
Year: 1871

ELECTED TO OFFIcE.-By private letter re-
ceived from Mr.. Elisha Hall, formerly of Doug
las City, we learn that he is in Ingersol, Cam
ada West, and that he has been elected to repre-
sent his ward in the City Council. Hall says
that there was great effort made to defeat him
on account of his having said he did not intend
to make that his permanent home, but it was no
go, and adds that he yet intends to settle on the
Pacific Slope. Speaking of his election, Hall
says: /" am congratulated on all sides upon
becoming one of the City Fathers of course
strut and put on airs and try to fill the dignity
of the position if never do any other part Of it.
And well may feel proud of the position, as
was put forward nominated and elected en-
tirey by the exertion of friends and by effort
of my own" He closes his letter by wishing to
be remembered to all his Trinity friends.
Year: 1871

WITHOUT FoUNDATIoN.-We understand that it
is charged that the Republicans of this county
instigated the arrest of Sheriff Jackson. We
don't believe any man in this county had the
slightest connection with it, and if there is that
person he is as likely to be Democrat as any
thing else. The people of this county, without
distinction of party, prefer to have the tax col
lected, and we have convincing reasons to sat
isfy us that the Chinese moved in the matter of
their own accord. Such barefaced misrepre-
sentations will be found very poor capital to
work upon and will recoil upon their authors,
because our citizens know better.