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Year: 1873

The Danbury News says:


1t is little singular how well pair
of boots can he made to fit at the store.
You may not be able to get your foot
half way down the bootleg at the first
trial, but that is because you havn't
started right, and the bootmaker sug-
rests that you start again, and stand up
to it, and he throws in little powder
from pepper to aid you. And so you
stand up, and pound down your foot,
and partly trip yourself up, and your
ewes stick out in an unpleasant manner,
and every vein in your body ap-
pears to be on the point of burst
ing, and all the while that dealer
stands around and eyes the opera.
ton as intently as if the whole affair
was perfectly new and novel to him.
When your foot has finally struck bot
tom, there is faint impression on your
mind that you have stepped into an open
stove, but he removes it by solemnly OBJ
serving that he never saw boot hit quite
as good as that. You possibly may sug,
gest that your toe presses too hard
against the front, or that some OF the
bones in the side of the foot are too
much smashed, but he says this is always
the way with a new boot, and that the
trouble will entirely disappear in a few
days. Then you take the old pair under
your arm and go home as animated as
relic Of 1872, all the while feeling that
the world will not look bright and happy
TO YOU again until you have Drained
that shoemaker. You limp down town
the next day and smile all the while
with your mouth, while your eyes look
as if you were walking over an oyster
bed barefoot. When no one is looking
YOU kick post or some other obstruc-
ton and show fondness for stopping
and resting against something that will
sustain your weight. When you get
home at night you go for those old boots
with an eagerness that cannot be de
scribed, and the remarks that you make
upon learning that your wife has dis
posed of them to woman IN the
suburbs are calculated to Immediately
depopulate the earth of shoemakers and
women generally.
Year: 1873

The existence of a religious sect called
"Derbists," whose adherents are mostly
recruited in the two departments of the
Drome and the Ardeche, was scarcely
known to the great majority OF French
men until soldier belonging to TINS
body was tried by court-m@tlal few
days ago for insubordination. The tehets
of this sect are principally embodied IN
the doctrine that human life is absolute
ly sacred, and that the profession OF
arms is in itself crime. In obedience
to this teaching, young man VINO nad
been sent to join his regiment refused to
carry arms, declaring that he was ready
to submit to any punishment, even that
Of death, rather than repudiate his prln-
ciples. The Colonel had no alternative
but to send him before a court'martlal
for breach of discipline; and in the
course of the trial the schoolmaster, who
had been called as a witness, stated
that though he had done all IN his
mower to eradicate these ideas, the pris-
oner had held fast to his original pur-
nose. When he told him that, in the
event of a battle, he would always be
able TO fire in the air, the young man de-
clared that he would not do that because
il would be an act of treaehery toward
the government, and he preferred stating
the case to his superiors when called
mon to Join the army. On similar
grounds he refuses to purchase a subst-
tute, and in reply to the warning OF his
scboolmaster that he would render him
self liable to be shot. for insubordination,
he avowed his readiness to add another
TO The three millions Of martyrs who
have already died for their faith. bis
behavior at the trial vas most exemplary,
and when questioned by the President
Of the court, he confessed that he had
disobeyed the military laws, but had
eeted ia conformity with those OF the
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Year: 1873

prize and walked home with it. John
Jackson had his fish for supper, and pro-
noynced them very fine; but to this day
he cannot explain how three bass could
possibly string themselves through the
gills, tic themselves around a peg, and
go back in the water again. The gentle
man who had been fishing must have
made Just such another curious capture
aud have lost IT, for he was heard later
in the evening talking very loud, and
asking somebody, proianely, what the
something had become of il.
Year: 1873

Mr.. John Jackson was walking along
the river bank one day, VIXEN he saw q


piece Of string attached to a peg stuck
in the ground. he picked up the string,
of which one end was in the water, and
hauled in three fine bass, which by some
means or other had strung themselves
through the gills on the line. jackson
was so astonished By this Circumstance
that be did not know what to say, but be
determined 20 take the fish home and
show them. Before doing 80, however


he looked sbOut 10 see If anybody could
give him an explanation Of the affair
But only saw gentleman fishing some
quarter Of q mile of, and not wishing q
/ Interrupt him in bis sport, picked up hii
Year: 1873

A lady who was passing along Chapel
street, New Haven. wore a handsome
gold chain, which attracted the attention
Of dashing cut-purse. Armed with a
sharp instrument, he made a streke at
the glittering chain, but movement of
the lady just at that moment caused him
to fail Of his object The knife, how
ever, struck the ladys dress and cut it
from shoulder to shoulder.
Year: 1873

A short time ago son of one of the most
prominent citizens of Denver, Colorado, in a
fit of anger, deliberately shot and killed an
other young man and fled. Naturally enough
the occurrence created great sensation in
the city, and efforts were made by the Off
GERS to arrest the murderer Some blame is
attached to them for lack of diligence or ab-
solute neglect of duty in allowing the young
man to escape. After the excitement over
the event had som ewhat subsidized, the father
of the youth presented himself before the
authorities and pledged his word that in two
davs after his son should be delivered to the
officers. He is said to have been placed en-
tirely out of the reach of the authorities, and
had his father desired to shield him from
justice he could have accomplished his final
escape. True to his word the parent was
before the officers and delivered the lad into
their custody. The Denver Nems, COM
menting upon this act, says it is seldom,
very seldom indeed, that such all act is done.
To redeems such promise required, in a
father, the incest sense of homer, the highest
nerve, the largest amount of self-control.
Let the public note the fact as one which
displays genuine heroism, and the truest
qualities of manhood. -
Year: 1873

A pretty correct idea of the value at which
the notes of the Spanish Bank of Havana are
estimated by their holders may be derived
from the fact that our greenbacks are eagerly
bought up in Havana at twelve and thirteen
per cent. premium. Gold is nominally quoted
there at sixteen per cent. premium, but as
our currency, which is worth eleven per
cent. less than gold, sells readily at twelve to
thirteen per cent. premium, it follows that
gold would really sell at twenty-five to twen-
ty-six per cent. premium, if there were any
there for sale. The truth is, that beyond the
mythical five millions of the precious coin
which has for three years headed the pub
lished assets of the Spanish Bank, and in
whose existence nobody has particle of be-
lief, there is no gold in Havana, and 50, in
the lack of specie, all the holders Of the
Spanish bank bills grab for our greenbacks.
Year: 1873

A law case arising from the burning of a
building in Massachusetts has just been de-
cided by the Supreme Court. The case is
this: The building of company was on
fire and the engines were playing upon it,
having their hose stretched across railway
track, which freight train passing run over
and cut in part, and the burning building and
contents were consumed. The owners sued
the railroad company to recover for the loss.
The questions involved in the case were
whether the hose was -rightfully put across
the track and whether the loss by the fire
was not SO remotely connected with the
negligent act of the company as to preclude
recovery. The Supreme Court decides
that the tiremen had right to lay their hose
across the track, and that the negligent act
of the railroad company was a direct and
efficient cause of the loss. 5t
Year: 1873

A Desp perate VeMture-H0Sv a Man got


out OF u Paradise Of SnObs.


From the Washington Star
|. We wagered small sum with friend
once that he could not get out of that para
disc of snobs called the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
without being forced to fee the waiter; He
was peky ew s in IL haa aa 3ehaSad AKA passsd ssssd
with credit from under all sorts of social
batteries in the battle of life. We watched
him closely. He marched from his room,
valise in hand, and began his descent of. the
grand stairway, scorning to take advantage
of the elevator. He passed servants cycling
him as il he was Il sneak thief as he was.
His first skirnlish came off in the hall oppo-
site the dining room, and our friend proved
the victor. The last fight was trying. Di-
rectly facing it is that heavy battery of clerks
whose diamond shirt fronts, shiny hair, stun
ming clothes, and elevated manners so Cypress
poor humanity. We saw our friend draw q
deep breath and beg in the descent. He took
the fire OF lofty contempt from the clerk
battery, and turning to the left encountered
heavy reserve of whisk brooms. This
charged on him in platoon; while one de-
tachment attacked his baggage another as
saulted him on flank and rear with whisk
brooms. He fought through gallantly. He
had nearly reached the entrance when huge
African bore down upon his right and the
two passed out struggling for the valise.
Victory hung doubtful, when, unfortunately
for our gallant friend, two ladies of his ac-
quaintance, who happened to be passing,
paused to bid him farewell. This was fatal.
He relnquished his valise, bowed to his
friends, was thrust into hack and meekly
paid the African-a counterfeit ffty-c6nt
fractional currency that lie held in reserve
in case the worst came to the worst.
Year: 1873

A strong and sensible writer says good,
sharp thing, and a true one, too, for boys
who use tobacco: lit has utterly ruined
thousands of boys. It tends to the weaken
ing and sp.tening of the bones, and it greatly
Injuries the brain, the spinal marrow and the
whole nervous fluid. A boy who smokes
early and often, or in any way uses large
quantities of tobacco, is never known to make
man of much energy, and generally lacks
muscular and physical IS well as mental
power. We would particularly warn boys,
who want to be anything in the world, to
shun tobacco as most baneful poison"
Year: 1873

Say we'll is good, but do well is better;


Do well seems the spirit say well is the letter;
Say well is gody and helps to please;


But do well lives gOdly and gives the world ease;
Say well to silence it sometimes is bound,


But do well is free on every ground.
Say well has frends-some here, some there, q.
But do well is welcome everywhere.
BY say well many to Gods Words Glove;
But for lack of do well it often leaves
If say well and do well were bound in one frame,
Then all DONE all won and gotten gain.
Year: 1873

\ bitter word in madness spoken, .s-
An idle step in haste begun,
Oft leaves behind some fatal token


TO blast the friendship We have won.


a@.
Though all is past and all is over .rs.-
When clouds were hanging overhead,
Let silence with its mantle cover
The true and false that have been said
We all have faults, for we are human,
Their judgments rest alone with God;
And all are doomed, both man and woman
TO yield to Hates malignant rod. ...
Injustice has its day and season,
And truth its pure and living springs; 4.
But, oh! the sadest shock to reason
Is that which false affection brings.
Deserted homes and bonds that sever
Without the aid of chance or time,
Will prove a source of grief forever
And pave the way that leads to crime.
We yet might hope among the living
And live in peace without applause,
Were there no spirits untOrgiving,
No wounds without guiltless cause.
While from the past the soul can borrow
A recollection fraught with pain, n
/ would not add one pang of sorrow
To those that others now sustain.
But broken is the poisoned chalice
For one who would have borne his part.
And naught is left but hate and malice
And memories that chill the heart.
Year: 1873

II looks as though SAN Cox up in the
Eighth District would be elected TO Congress
without opposition. We arc GLAD Of II. lie IL a
good fellow, makes good speech and ia apt to
vote on the right side. We trust, too, that
when he gets back there BIAtNB's friends will
no longer be able to boast that he runs the
Democratic party well as the Republican
There is great need Of men Of stern principle
and immoyahle veg ht In Congress.
Year: 1873

The cares, anxieties and msfortunes of life
have as much to do with shortening it as dis
ease. They are in fact the source Of many all
ments and physical disabilities. Nervous weak
ness, dyspepsia, affections Of the liver disturb
ances of the bowels, headache hypochondria
and monomania are aihohg these distressing
fruits. 1t is, therefore. of great importance
that persons whose minds are oppressed with
business responsibilities, or harrassed by family
troubles, or excited dy speculation, or perplexed
by multiplicity OF enterprises, or in ANYWAY over.
taxed or overwurked, should keep up their
amina by the daily use of a wholesome tonic.
Thousands of persons thus circumstanced are
enabled to bear up against the difficulties in
which they are involved, and to retain their
strength, health and mental clearness by the
regular use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitte,s.
Diseases which are prone to attack the body
when debilitated and broken down by over
much brain work or exhars ing ply sical labor,
are kept at bay by the resistant power with
which this Incompatible tonic endows the
nervous system and the vital organs. At this
season when the heat is evaporatng the ele-
ments of strength from every pore, an invigcr.
ant is absolutely essential to the safety and
comfort of the public, and is required even by
the more robust if they desire to keep their
athletic capabil ties in status quo. Hence a
course Ct Hostetter's Bitters is particularly
useful at this period of the year as q defense
against the il visabe disease afoat in a sultry
atmosphere, II is the most potent of all COM
plants which affect the stomach, the liver and
the bowels, and interfere with the perfect d.
gestion and assimilation Of food, it is the
standard remedy.
Year: 1873

The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes under date
Of April 4:


"Samuel Randall was informed by the
Attorney General to- day that he could not
have access to the records of the Depart
ment of Justict, for the purpose of seeing
what papers were fled to induce the Presi-
dent 10 pardon Brown, the Philadelphia re-
peater. The refusal was placed on the
ground that the pardoning power Of the
President, under the Constitution, was a
personal prero -aJive, not subject TO be
called in question either by Congress or the
people. This would indicate that the At
torney General aud the President intend 10
nav no attention to the resolutions which
passed the House calling for information in
this somewhat notorious case"


1t thus appears that the creature has set
himself above the creator. The people
made Grant President; he exercises the
pardoning power by the authority thus con
ferred upon him, and in the exercise Of that
power in the case of the notorious Philadel-
ph'a repeater he outraged both decency and
Justice, and now when the people, through
their representatives in Congress, call upon
him for the papers which influenced his
action in this matter, his super-serViceable
Attorney General tells them it is none Of
their business; and that his right to par
don is personal Ir3rogative which cannot
be called to question. The next answer
will probably be that the King can do no
wrong" and querulous people must be si-
fenced. There would be as much decency
in such an answer as the one given for the
outrage perqetrSted upon the people of
phiIadelnhia.
Year: 1873

A CLEVELAND (Ohio) woman whose
son parts bis hair in the middle, has written
to the Government to know if she is not
entitled to pension. The chief Of the pen-
sion bureau writes back that she can not
receive pension unless be pastes his hair
down in scollops On his forehead, and wears
a seal ring on each little finger, in addition
to his first mentioned infirmity.
Year: 1873

THE Gallatin Examiner, one of the best
papers in the State, comes to us greatly en-
larged and printed on new type. We con-
gratulate our contemporary On this evidence
Of the prosperity it so richly merits.
Year: 1873

The San Francisco Examiner urges the
turning of the Colorado river into southern
California for irrigation purposes. This is a
grand undertaking, and lis results in enrich


ing and calling out the producliveness of the
soil of southern California, western Arizonl
and New Mexico c,nnot be estimated by
man. Two objections may arise. First,
the right to the waters of the Colorado is an


international question that must be settled
by treaty between the United States and
Mexico. Though the sources of the Colo
RADIO are almost wholly in the United States,
the river proper, from the Mexican town of
Algodomes for a hundred miles, to the gulf,


il wholly in Mexico; hence, that Govern
ment might, and surely would, object to
having its waters diminished Second, the
question of irrigation iself assumes many
phases, and ought to be well considered be-
fore attempting it on SO large a scale. The
irrigation of so vast body of semi-ropical
country as s contemplated, must work all
entire change of climate, and from the dry,
healthy plains that now exist must follow a
condition of climate like that of the Chagres
river, where white man takes his life in his
hand to attempt to live ther,. That the
land would be rich and prolific in its trop-
cal productions, no one will question; but
that it must be abandoned to African or Chi
nese lbor is equally certain. California owes
its healhful climate to Its dry Summers.
We have seen the effects of irrigation and
ditch water IN our own county, and want none
none of it, except isolated garden spots. We
have seen the settlers from the tules and
Sacramento swamps seeking the dry plains
and foothills of Placer, shivering with the
chills, ready to purchase at almost any price
so they could again find health for their fam
lilies. But we only started out to say that
we want our Government to keep its fingers
out of this Colorado irrigation business.
What individuals may do is nothing TO us.
Year: 1873

1t is a rare thing now days to find an Off
cial, or one that is seeking an office Or con.
tract, that is not the advocate of lberality in
paying for all public services. A fellow that
can barely live out of Office, no sooner gets
one than he becomes extremely liberal, thinks
he should be paid handsomely so as to com
port with the dignity of the Office, though he
may be the verest bungler and incompetent.
If his salary or fees are not at once raised,
he at once begins 10 form com mbinations to ef
feet this purpose, and is ready to lick the
hand of every man that W Il help him and
curse all wio oppose or expose his plans.
This thing reaches from the pith-master to
The President of the United States. 1t would
be proper to except from this rule about ten
per cent. of officials. You never hear OF one
of these snortng liberal fellows resigning an
Office or refusing to run for n second term
unless he sees better chance. These kind
of officials are great protectors Of dummies
vio bid TOO low for contracts, and whenever
a fellow bids below what they think right
they rule him out, just thr ugh generosity
md to keep him from running himself. Well,
the country has had enough of this liberaity,
to say nothing of the stealing. which is closely
allied to it. The position of the people and
their official servants have been transposed
long enough, and i: is now time both were
placed back in their old positions, where the
people are masters and the officials their ser
wants. Sei-abnegaton must be among the
requisites for official pos ton, Or the people
must be slaves. The official tha5 carries
selfish or personal considerations into Office
commits moral perjury, and ought to be
oathed as leper by the whole public. Do
not misunderstood us While political par
ties exist it is the duty of an official elected
by party, ererytiu,g else being equal, ana
the public and individual veal being rigidly
guarded, to favor the men of his own party
with his legitimate patronage or resign his
Once, Dut ms must not 6Xtenu 10 placing
incompetents in Office or over charges for
anyone's benefit. The official is charged
with and sworn to perform lis duties accord


ing to law and his best ability, ana so are
Ill his deputies, and when this oath is will
fully violated to the extent Of farthing, he
is perjured official and the world can look
upon him in no other light. The examples
now set in high places is becoming demoral-
izing in all official positions, and the tax
payers owe it to themselves to put stop toit


10 do this, examples must be made of every
official not squaring hs acts by the law and
his oath, from the highest to the lowest.


rhe people of this county and State are to
have contest with the powers that be this
Fall, and it is time they were looking into
the acts of officials and selecting those who
are to be turned out and those to fill THEN
places.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER RA1D.-The Southern States
have been about cleaned out of everything
worth stealing by Grants carpet-baggers and
now that the grass for thieves is getting
short, they have turned their heads towarde
Salt Lake, intending to rob the Mormons in
the name of religion and morality. These
Mormons may have faulty religion, though
they do have the example of King David
and Solomon, who were men after God :
own heart, to justify their religion by. Om
Government is prohibited by the Constitu-
ton from interfering with any religious be-
lief, but what matters this to Grant and his
carpet-baggers while there is wealth at Salt
Lake that they can on some pretext grasp
If King Solomon and his temple was at Salt
Lake, Grants thieves would rob him in the
name of religion of the last cent, and mold
up his church ornaments into coin. They
talk of morality, when the best man among
them would rob a church and run the preacher
for bis boots. The only thing that will save
the Mormons will be for them to raise mon
cy and send to Washington and buy up IA
majority Of Republican Congressman.
Year: 1873

We print on our first page part of a story
Of the minea, because it is good story. and
the scenes are laid in this county, in Ophir
and Auburn. 1t is original in The Golden
Era. The story will be finished in our next
issue.
Year: 1873

The Supervisors, we think, acted as fairly
as they could under the circumstances in
dividing the county into Supervisor districts.
The industrial interests and population could
hardly have been better arranged, and if
there was political leaning it amounts to
nothing. as the only fights in the future will
be rings and railroads on one side and
the people and tax-pavers on the other.
Year: 1873

ACCORDING to q San Francisco
newspaper NJ. Alfred Parafs new
method manufacturing butter from
flesh fat is now in operation on a
large scale in that city. The COM
pany manufacture butter out of suet
from fresh beef, and assert that the
article viii in every respect equal
that made Of cream. The suet is
first ground and thrown into a huoc
tank containing about one foot of
water. The mass is next raised to
blood heat, and after half hours
stirring it is left to settle. The
scraps fall and the pure fat remains.
This is collected, wrapped in cloths
and submitted to presses of trench
dous power The oIcine oozes
through the cloth and is conveyed
into another tub, where. after the aG-
dition Of a little milk nd rcnnet, it
IS agitated in the ordinary manner of
cream TO produce butter.