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< ''"tO. 1 Udl utIU Denmark, in Madison county and v,a~ sn,.', very early. It is well known that ,ooro ,a;, has fallen in West Tennessee this seaso, tbar in any other part of the State; hence the ex. treme wet weather must have had some aoencv in the production of this animalculm. Ifs oi. so we'll known that moisture and heat will nro. duce and multiply animal life. millions her hour, and therein, we judge, is the secret of this destruction of the oat crop. IT is one of those cases of natural phenomena which occnr only at d certain stage in the growth of plants and under peculiar states of temperatnre and weather. It may happen next season. or it may not occur aSain for many years.-SoutAern Homestead.
 0-F- The following article, from the Macon (Ga) Telegraph, IS true,-every word of it. Read it and see, though written for another To. callty, how well it fits Arkansas
 Peoples Tickets" Peoples Parties" and
 Reform Politicians"
 Whenever, fin the course of human eventsn political organization is thoroughly defllnct- very dead--a'id it's leading members feel tbe Jtct, there appears to arise at once in their minds an alarming horror and disgust of .'pogty.v They begln to have lively apprehersions for the peopIe,-to realizefeelingly the tyranny and the abuses of party" which they discover threaten to engulph and enslave the popnlar wiN and. like the fox in the fable. they see no remedy but Tn reducing everybndy's party to the same condition with their own. nartv meeting with them now becomes nothinq short o' consplracy--a party nominee is an unscru. pulous demaSogue and trckster, or the tool of that cla~s--the party itself sink of corrupton and Imquty-a pandora's box; and no chance Is lett Tor the country but for generl upris;no of the 'unparted people" to put the mercena. res to flight They speak ieelingly because they have felt the sting of ''partv:, which word to them lS, of course, now synonymous with "the other side" So long as "nartv,, meant tielr side and served their views and purposes, 1t was good thng--a patriotic thino Tn fact, 1t was the salvation of the country which would go to ruin without.
 Then they nominated party tickets in secret council, and duly abeled them party tickets, if 1t was good policy; but if not they snrnno them on the moment at the polls and rnshed them n, II they could; and the man who d,d not stand upto those party tickets they thonobt very poor klnd of man and no patriot. Tn fact, they black -balled him. But now that tbis particular and favorable signifcation of the word 'Party" is lost to them-now that ovants have given it the ugly meaning of atJe ot6ey Sde '--hoW that 10 them it is suggestive only of past defeats and future disappointment what wonder that they See world of miscbiefin it2 It IS a ffowIng cloud 'twixt them and fortune and calls for constant study to eispel it. Such then, with politicians, is the simple difference betwNt ''my party" and "your partvo If we had party which could promise anything. we should stand to 1t; but having none. the busi ness now ln hand for us is to put you, if possi- ble, in the same condition.
 Now we come to the era of mo pqyfy" poIi- tcS which for some months past seems to be imminent in Georgia. Editors have become teAriuliy exercised about the dangers of marty. lhey are alarmed for the country in the hands oi party. They see the most horrid abuse>. the most corrupt practces-the most shameless tyranny Tn party. They bewailthe liberties of The people sacrificed in party conventions and meetings and indignantly appeal to that noble spirit oi lndepe deuce inherited from revolu- tonary sires. They appeal to the people 'to throw aside the degrading shackes of par ty," and Tn order to aid them. set up .people's hcNeis,' peoples parties" and reform move m9ntS," on all practicable occasions. The thor ough-paced plrtzans--lhe sly old political rev. hards Who get up these devices--are not. it is true, often successful. But wherever they do succeed, they accomplish precisely the reverse ot the pretenSe set up. The pretense is to vim d'cate the popuhr will. The hjuq done is ef 'ectnaIly tn smother ii, hv putting a mere mi non'y into place. The promised reform. retrenchment and economy, in nine cases out q ten, end in aggravated abuses and reck
 less protnSon. There are so many to pay for hard work in eifectiug so difficult victarv-so htle promise Of pnrinanpnce in it. and so many
 impatient, GiStruStfnl and dscordant interests tn concIate, in these coaitions-that they are m no condition to administer public interests with economy, even if they have some good de- Nlre to d' H. We see in our neishhor city of Savannah they have recently started a 'peonle,s ret"rm' opposition ticket, and without know Ing anything about the abuses to be remeded or the men proposed to remedy them. the ticket II successful, will reverse all experience if they do not make matters a great deal worse than they now arc.
 Nobody onght to he delu1ed with the cry of peoples candidates peoples parties, and reform tickets. It coms from old political leaders Nh" have only found the people, as imbodied in the ranks Of their opponents, a great deal too strong for them and therefore wish simnIv to divide and conquer." Whatever abuses may eXlSt Tn the democratic party, the people in the party can correct them; and if these complsiners wish to benefit the country let them come over and heip the democracy to amend But while the absence of a strong and well organized op- position may endanger the democratic party in its own organization and character, it is the only party row in existence which can grasp and control the destinies of the Republic, ard otter any guarantee for even it's existence as a confederation of free and independent States.