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Year: 1873

ADVANCED SEAsoN-The Placer Brewery folks
were moving their first crop of hay on Wednes-
day 10Th of March, in small field in Auburn
1t is barley, and had reached hight of some
three feet. The ground is rich, and will send up
one or two more crops this season, before the
moisture is all gone. We guess this pole will
knock the persinmons in the hay line in this
section But all crops in this part of the coun-
try are advanced, and look finely for this season
of the year.
Year: 1873

BALL IN THE SSow. We acknowledge the re-
ceipt of Il complimentary ticket to grand open
ing ball of the tourist season at Cardwell's Sum
NIT House, on Friday evening, April 4th, 1873
The committee Of arrangements number many
prominent gentlemen in Sacramento and along
the line of the railroad far east Reno, and
every preparation is being completed for a most
novel and enjoyable ride and party. 1t will be
most pleasant and novel to go from the warm
valleys to to the summit in afternoon, dance
ali night surrounded by mountains of snow, and
return the next morning
Year: 1873

RosEvILLE, March 18th, 1872.


The sun arose in all his glorious efful ence
upon Roseville, the prettest village of the foot
hills, st. Patricks day in the morning; with not
a cloud to mar the beauties of the azure sky and
reflect back the radiance of the FURNISHED sum-
so long withheld by reason of the Winters an
cry scowl; and as the last rays were lingering in
the west, well dressed young men could be seen
rushing promscuously about preparing them
ter's Hall, on that delightful evening st s
o'clock the and elegant hail presented a
grand aud imposing appearance, it being
well filled with the youth and beauty of the sur
rounding country and the brilliant chandeliers
displayed no contrast between the many gushing
damsels, who We'd with each other which should
be the star of the evening, and we can only say
we watched their fairy forms and dainty feet
keep time with the splendid music dispensed by
Smith a. Fuller's quadrille banl that close prox-
unity lent epchantment to the view At II
clock some 80 or GO couples repaired TO the
junction Hotel, where sumptuous repast
prepared, the table being well supplied with the
inest edibles of the season, and the manner in
which the contents of the well .adon paters DIS
appeared, spoke well of those who had charge OF
the pastry department 1t was along in the wee
hours Of morn before the disciples OF Terpslcnore
wended their way homeward all acknowledging
that more pleasant, magnificent and enjoyable
time was never had in Roseville


CORRrSpoNIrNT
Year: 1873

NOT IT.-The family OF Mr. King near Rose
vlle was thought to be afll cted with the unnamed
Tehama disease some two or three weeks ago
are now, ws learn, all in fair way to recover, it
turning out to be but severe type of typhoid
fever. Mrs. King died, and six other members
of the family were very low, but are now all out
of imme date danger
Year: 1873

NOT FoUND.-The lost girl from IL to 10 years
od' vino strayed was stolen or run off from
her home, west of Newcastle, some two weeks
ago, the circumstances of which we gave last


week, has not yet returned or been found. Last
Wednesday, people from Auburn and the whole
country around, turned out and made a general
search, but without result. The general impress
sion Is that she is alive and WELL but not in this
county. Various rumors suggest as to her
whereabouts, but we prefer not to publish them
Year: 1873

The most dangerous foes of Christianity
are not the Remains and the Theodore Park
ers and the FrOthinghams, who openly assault
the faith of the Bible 1t is so evident to
all Christian people that such men are on
the wrong side, that their influence is COM
paratively limited. But it is the indifer-
ence and the dullnesS on the part of those
who profess Christianity that do the worst
damage. When in pulpit or prayer meet
ing, or religious newspaper, man speaks of
God and the soul, with eyes half shut, and
manner in which there is no thrill, he prac-
tically denies the tremendous truth Of the
gospel. If there be a heaven and hell; if
there be living and radiant Jesus: if this
moment be the last in which some soul will
have opportunity of escaping eternal disas-
ter, how can man be stold while talking
on religious themes. If one ought ever to
sparkle and fame, it is when he touches the
questions of the soul. There can be no
good apology for dull prayer meeting talk.
If man has gorged too much supper before
he came, let him keep silence. If he have a
heavy article on some Christian theme, let
him first carefully correct the spelling, then
punctuate it; then page it; then fold it up
then burn it. How dare you stand up there
in meeting with somnOlent manner slander-
ing our religion. Sit down! Let some man
with a soul On fire take the time. How
many religious meetings have two or three
exhorters that act like icicles which only gel
enough thawed out during the service, to
drip, drip, drip in cold talk.


Do not stand there taking the time telling
US what sinner you are: we all knew tina
long ago but tell US of some victory gained
of some glimpse of the pinnacles that yOl
caught from the mountain-top. Hide no
that one tear of emotion in promisCuous u.s.
of INTERCHANGEABLE as if you merely ha(
cold in your head, and could not be be
trayed into any emotion at all. We neec
more brightness and elasticity in our Chris
tian work. If holiness be I" ON the bells o
the horses" we care not how much the,
prance. The more speed and the more spring
the more music.


Let not professed profuudity be any ex
Year: 1873

will want to know something more. He has
the example of the Mikado in Japan, who has
so recently appeared in public. He is sur
rounded by number of men of influence
who speak the language perfectly and are
thoroughly conversant with Chinese affairs,
such as the Rev. DR.. Martin, President of
the College, Rev. DR.. Williams, Secretary
OF Legation, both Presbyterians the English
Minister Wade and others. There is now a
strong anti-foreign party, but they cannot
stand before the pressure brought to bear
upon them. The ice has been broken with
sledge-hammer blow. For ten years more
the progress may be slow, but China cannot
much longer maintain her isolation. If the
national pride which rises higher than the
architects of Shinar planned for the top of
Babers tower, could once be brought low,
and they be made to see their thousand years
backwardness, there would be hope. If a
movement does take place, the rapidity of the
revolution may exceed that in Japan.


The question Inay be asked, What is the
bearing Of all this upon Christianity? Much
every way. The call then is for united
prayer for the young Emperor of China.
Brethren, pray that the sceptre of righteous
ness may be given to this mighty monarch
who holds undisputed sway over one-third
the inhabitants of earth H. G. D.


SOOCHoM.
Year: 1873

HUMILITY is the truth, but pride is lie.
No MAN is free that does not command
himself.


A SERMON like a tool may be polished till
it has no edge


NoTHING is so formidable to the busy as
the visits of the idle.


We MUST JUDGE, not of faith by persons,
but of persons by faith.


Fora man merely to do no harm is to be
no better than a stone.


He WHO rides on chariot built by hope,
has poverty for his companion.


The Levitical rites were nothing less than
the gospel itself in hierOglyphics.


In THE Scriptures there is enough both
for the strong to eat and the infant to suck
BETTER leave the ark to shake as it may
please God, than put unworthy hands tc
hold it up.


Prosperous PRovIDENCEs are for the mos
part a dangerous state of the soul The
moon never suffers an eclipse but at the full
THAT MANY persons perish, is the deser
of those who perish; that many are saved
is the free gift of Him who saves them.


IN MY pursuits of whatever kind, let thi
come to my mind: "How much shall l valu'
this on my death-bed.-President EdVards


FIwAYT man to fly, I must contriv,
to fad him wings; and if would success
fully enforce moral duties, I must advance
evangelical mOtives.-John Ne0tOn.


IT HAS been observed by some eminen
divines, that ministers are seldom honOre
with much success, unless they are COntinu
ally aiming at the conversion of sinners.


DR.. Owen.


A PREACHER may rise early, go to be
|, late, study hard, read much, devOur tn
marrow of the best authors, and when he ha
done all, unless God give his blessing, n
will be as lean and meagre in regard to tru
{ and useful matter, as PharaOh's lean kin
were after they had eaten the fat ones
Year: 1873

cuse for dullness in religion. Because a
subject is deep is no reason why it should be
obscure; you can see the bottom of Lake
Winnepiseogee thirty feet. Mists about a
religious theme are no evidence of learned
ness. We cannot worship London fog.


The most damaging attack upon Chris
tianity to day is the stolidity and half-heart-
edness of many who profess to accept it.
OhriStian at WOrk.
Year: 1873

TITUsvILLE, Pa, Feb. 11.-Further de-
velopments of the disaster near Scrubgrass
yesterday, show nothing further of more Sc
rious character than was reported last eve.
ming. The tanks loaded with oil on being
precipitated down the embankment burst,
and the oil suddenly ignited and spread
rapidly in every direction, carrying the
flames even some distance out on the water
of the river, cutting off every way of escape
for the drowning passengers except through
a lake of fire. In some instances they
plunged under the flaming waves and swan
to point of safety. Ths coach was an
iron one, and turned over one and a half
times, and then pla1ged its occupants into
the river, holding them there by wall of
fire. The man Casey, who was among he
list of killed, lost his life while striving to
rescue the train boy. 4
Year: 1873

1t will be good for animals, but better
yet for men, when a generation shall be
taught that all living things are The Lords,
and that in their narrow sphere they have
rights OF happiness which cannot be wan
tonly destroyed without moral culpability.


We must begin and teach children not to
sbhor insects, worms and harmless reptiles.


As it is, children are educated to dislike
almost everything in creation that is not
good to sell or to eat. 1t is q large field up
on which you enter. But besides the NOR
al sense of men, which is gradually deyel-
Oping in tee direction of the lower range of
life, the progress of natural science is bring
ing men into far more kindly relations with
the great under realm than have heretofore
subsisted. A simple Irish woman said to
friend of mine, who was about to be mar
ried. "Mary, my dear, always keep pig;
you viii find them such good company
when you are lonesome"


Whatever social virtues may be developed
by the pig, we think it emiBently true that
that there is great deal of company in the
vast and minute life beneath us, which will
prove very good company to all who study
their habits and sympathize in their happi-
ness.-Henry Ward Beecker.
Year: 1873

the nuisance farther away. It is no greater
hardship to be compelled to move fourteen
miles now than it was in 1867. Having become
an intolerab1e nuisance, this establishment
must bear the fate Of all such bad neighbora,
and move on. It's products arc sold at the East,
and each mile its factory mo7es eastward it will
be that much nearer to market


Tho talk about sacrificing the business OF Chi
cago by breaking up this nuisance in HYDE Park
is idle. There was q time when this olfa1 vas
thrown into the river, and it wss then declared
that to stop that nuisance would be to drive the
packing businesa away. But tho law was en-
forced; then came tho factory at Bridgeport,
and at last the one at Ainsworth; aud now, in
the progress Of the city's growth, is tho require
mcnt that it go further of. But admitting that
We have no choice, and that VIC must endure this
fearful nuisance or stop killing arimals by the
million, tho question with which We begin thia
article arees whether hog and beef killing ia the
chief end Of MANI and whether our moral and
physical health, comfort and enjoyment, must
be subordinated to the privilege Of a few por-
sons to slaughter animals and dry their
offal in the open air7 Is that tho end for which
We vera brought into tho world? Are the
health and comfort Of tho 10000 people OF
Chicago and its suburbs nothing against tue
great charter to slaughter animals and convert
their offal into manure?
Year: 1873

The Soldiers Bounty Land bill, now pending
in the Senate, is bill to confer the smallest
possible benefit upon tho soldiers, ut the lnrgest
possible cost to the country. The Government,
long ago. Offered it's public lands (by the Home
stead law to actual settlers, including soldiers,
for nothing. Thin bill virtually repeals the
Homestead law, for it Sweeps away the entire
public domain. II the Homestead act was
wise and beneGcent measure, this Bounty bill is
al ,1nwise and nefarious one. We lay down tho
proposition as indisputablo, that no man needs to
get land for less than nothing. ANY soldier
can get 160 acrcs Of land for
nothing. He ought not to have it my cheaper.
If it is the monoy-value of the lnud that is
wanted, then far better would it be to appro-
pirate the amount from the Treasury, and renew
the incomo-tn1 to raise it, for the land is fixed
and limited quantity, while tho money TINT can
he raised by taxation is practically without limit.
II the amount of money which the soldiers
would actually get ont Of the Bounty Land bill
could be accurately estimated and separated
from the expected gains OF spectators, it would
not require an enormous appropriation to satisfy
their claims.
Year: 1873

known a. '*ordinary DRINKS in the Police Courts,
follow the same rule. In other words, the num-
Der OF those who take drink because It is hot
ia greater than those who tako drink because
it is cold Whether this discovery will Se tested
so accurately as to introduce excessively warm
weather as new palliation for tho czimo OF
murder, or to induce the 1efor1ue1s to Etriro for
M equalization OF temperature all tie year
round, remains to he seen. .
Year: 1873

man of the Democratic General Committee OF
Kings County, the Ring organization; and this
at once disqualifies him, if he were in every
other respect perfectly fitted for the place.
He may be strictly honest in every dealingI
of commonplace and business life. but yet, as
the head of political organization, be made
the tool of party. The moment he should
step from the Craftsmanship of party organ
ization to the Treasuryship of a great mu-
nicipality he would be a suspected man; nine
tenths Of the people would believe him as
ready to lend his Office to the Ring as he has
been content to lend it his respectability
heretofore. He is to-day the least fitted man
in Brooklyn to restore confidence.


Now what is Mayor Powel's duty IN this
condition of affairs Clearly he ought to
have removed and arrested Mr.. Sprague the
day Mr.. Ropes satisfied him that the Treasury
had been robbed. If he had wished to do his
party q service, he should have shown thus
promptly a disposition to punish crime in his
own party ranks, or made pretense of doing
so. His duty now is to carry out the
threat he has been making for two or
three days past and remove Mr. Sprague
at once and nominate successor above
suspicion such as attaches to Mr.. Whit
ney He can find plenty of men of his
own party capable of filling the Office, and
so aloof from the Ring, so Indifferent to its
Establishments, as to be able at once to restore
full confidence. We could readily name sew
eral men whom the people will be willing to
trust but we add only at this time that they
expect from Mayor Powell the nomination of
no Ring tool such as Mr. Whitney must be-
come by virtue of his position in the party.
He might not aid schemes of further plumber,
but Mr.. Whitney might be easily induced to
help conceal past frauds which would injure
his party if made public and it is precisely
the secrets of the Treasury which the people
now demand shall be made public. They
want no more partisan obstacles placed in
their way to Reform.
Year: 1873

Charles A. Sprague the City Treasurer of
Brooklyn, has resigned his office; his resigna-
ton, as we have stated, is in the hands
of the Mayor. The Treasurer has had
the assurance to attach conditions to a
resignation which should have been forced
from him by process of law which would
have lodged him with Rodman in the county
jail For two years or more he has had
knowledge of and been accessory to the rob-
berry of the City Treasury, if indeed he has
not been principal and Rodman merely the
agent in the theft. Rodman's defense for
using city funds is very well understood to
be the same which he set up for using the
Trust Company funds Mr.. Mills ordered him
in the one case; Mr.. Sprague in the other
Mr.. Spragues condition of resignation is that
it shall not take effect until Mayor Powell has
nominated and the Common Council has con-
firmed his successor.


Now this condition was not attached by
Mr.. Sprague. He would be only too glad to
retire at once and forever 1t is dictated by
the Ring, and it is intended solely to give the
Ring-by whom we mean Kingsley, McCue,
Fowler, and McLaughlin-time and oppor-
tunity to drum up and buy up the scattered
Aldermen to confirm the nominee selected to
continue the Ring tactics or to conceal the
Ring frauds in the City Treasury. To lose
control of the City Treasury is just now e1-
posure, ruin, death to the Ring; its secrets
made public will strengthen the popular feel
ing of Indignation, and rob the Ring of its
only strength in this crisis-the power of
money. Hence the condition; hence the delay
in the retirement of Mr. Sprague. 1t is solely
a ruse of the Ring.


Already it has been announced that ex-
Alderman ID. ID. Whitney is to be Mr.. Sprague's
successor Mr.. Whitney is indorsed by the
Ring papers of Brooklyn as a respectable and
honest gentleman. We know nothing of his
personal character, and do not care to inquire !;
we are indisposed just now to accept or give
certificates of honesty or respectability for
public officials until they have won them by
good service. But Mr.. Whitney has one dis
qualification which forbids his being thought
of for a single moment as the City Treasurer
of Brooklyn. 1t ia suicidal in Mayor Powell
or the Common Council to contemplate the
appointment of a man in his unfortunate posi-
ton. We are told that Mr. Whitney is tue Chair.
Year: 1873

The anti-railroad ticket in California has
been successful, so far as can be learned from


the meager returns received. A majority of
the Legislature elected is opposed to the rail-
road monopoly, and the probabilities are that
tbe senator TO be chosen to succeed Mr.. Cas-
serly will be independent OF the great ran
road interest that has so long controlled the
politics of the State and made such selfish
Year: 1873

A correspondent of The TRIBUNE takes up
this morning Treasurer Spinner's recent letter
on the return of back pay from legal point
of view, and shows the fallacies in the Treas
urer's argument.
Year: 1873

The letter of our London correspondent
published this morning contains some inter
estipg speculations respecting the attitude of
Mr.. Bright in regard to the question OF
secular education. The opinion which MI
Bright finally concludes to express on this
subject will undoubtedly exercise an import
ant influence on the fortunes of the Liberal
Darty.
Year: 1873

The Brooklyn Ring, at last forced to make
some show of prosecution of Rodman, have
announced that he is to be indicted on Mon
day. This intelligence was conveyed to Rod
man, who, at length convinced that he is to
be sacrificed, threatens to turn upon those
who would sacrifice him. An important IN
terview held with the prisoner by TRIBUNE
reporter yesterday is printed elsewhere, and is
full of significance
Year: 1873

The election of Gov. Noyes, Republican, In
Ohio is claimed by his friends as being as
sured by 10000 majority. The struggle for
control of the Legislature and the United
States Senatorship dependent thereon will
be more animated than that for State officers
Secretary Delano's friends persistently deny
that he is a candidate for Senator, and say
that he has expressly iprohibited the use OF
his name. This is an interesting fact to put
on record.
Year: 1873

To-day France is to be relieved of the visi-
BILE signs of her defeat by the Germans. The
last installment of the war indemnity is to be
paid and the army of occupation is to be
.withdrawn-unless pretext for its continu-
ance is furnished by foolish demonstrations
such as that at Luneville. Now that France
is to regain her Independence she should prove
herself worthy of it by endeavoring to pro-
mote her industrial interests, and live in peace
with her Deighbors.
Year: 1873

The JUDICIAL ELECTIoN.-The costly
biennial farce known as the judicial
Election, is over again, and its results
are generally known, The special cleo
tion where none but officers of judicial
character are chosen, rarely brings out a
vote Of more than hree-fourths that cast
at the general election of the same year,
and this year the falling off is more
marked than ever. Less than one-half
OF the vote of the State was thrown, and
the candidate of the Jndependent"
or Peoples party, is elected by plurali-
ty vote which will probably aggregate
six or seven thousand.


AS we anticipated, the great bulk of
tie vote for the third party candi-
date has been drawn from the Republi-
can ranks, which leaves Dwinele, the
Republican nominee, with the least vote
Of the three. This result is due to sever
al causes, chief of which is the fact that
Governor Booth is in full sympathy with
the new party, and his personal friends
and admirers have made its fight their
own. The numerous appointees of the
State administration were all in sympa-
thy with their chief, and have made use
of all their personal influence, which was
of course, mainly among Republicans, to
advance the chances of the party whose
success would give the Governor appar-
ent prestige as a Senatorial candidate.-
Nearly all the circulars sent out by the
Independent committee were addressed
to Republicans, and but for the unlocked
for apathy on the part of the Democrats,
would have so divided up the Republican
vote as to have insured the election Of
Mckee.


1t is not to be inferred from the results
just reached, that the new party has
majority, or even a plurality of the vote
of this State, if full turn out of electors
were drawn to the polls. 1t has worked
with untiring zeal, for its managers we'll
knew that defeat now would wipe it out
of existence. 1t has marshalled its whole
strength and shows that to be about one
fifth of the entire voting population. And
while it has been active in every quarter,
its opponents have been apathetic and
careless Of results.


Doubtless much of this feeling of apa-
thy arose from the fact that each of the
three party candidates, were men who
were esteemed as being as suitable as any
that could be found for the high position
to which they were named. 1t is no.
t!ceable that personal attacks upon the
character of either OF the candidates was
not feature OF the judicial campaign.-
Probably the remark made by Dwinclle
at the conclusion of the Curtin trial, inhu-
enced many votes against him in San
Francisco it should have had effect il
it did not, for judge that descends from
the bench to congratulate a red handed
murderer, shows himself unfit for judi
cial position. But the remark was made
so shorO time prior to the election that
1t was only in the cities and through the
medium of the daily press that its full
significance could be understood. The
strongest Republican journals in the
State commented on it in a manner that
must have turned many votes from Dwi-
nellie to the opposing candidates. But in
the State at large, Dwinelle was known
only as an able jurist, the peer of his OPP
ponents in every respect.
Year: 1873

THE skeleton Of an unknown man was
found about ten days since on the Oregon
road, opposite Whittle's Ferry, on the
klamath river. His Henry rifle was
found about fifty yards from him, and
about Sl5 beside him. 1t is supposed
he lost his way and possibly froze to
death last Winter during the Modoc
troubles. He must have been stranger
as no one seems to be missing from this
section of southern Oregon.