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The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-10

Our farmers are busy in the harves.
fields, and hands are scarce.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-10


The sooiabls at the Presbyterian church
last Friday evening was recherche af-
fair. 1t was largely attended, and was
not of the dry, stale nature that such
gatherings often are. Children, misses,
young married ladies and elder ladies,
boys, young men and digni6ed gentlemen
were there, and showed by their actions
that they appreciated the object of the
gathering. Mrs. Susan Voolfolk, Rev.
o. s. Thompson and Col. Parker, the prin
cipal managers Of tho occasion, did every.
thing in their power to make the com,
psny's enjoyment complete, and all who
were there will testify to the fact that
they succeeded admirably. Games of an
innocent character were INDUCED in, aud
such sports as would throw the assembly
together and promote friendship. If
these sociablss were more frequent there
sould be less ooldness among Christians
toward each other more Of that love
which as brothers and sisters in Christ
they should feel. The refreshments we're
enjoyed as much by the elders as by the
children.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-10

IF you want SHOES, the "Novelty" is
the place to save 25 per cent. Corner of
Main and Cherry, Troy, Mo.
w. s. COOPER.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-10

Twsnty-thres deaths from hea. oc.
's'rsd in Philadelphia on tho 4th.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-10

We have often been surprised at the
display Of wit in the local columns of
somo Of our country exchanges. Little
squibs of occurrences that are reported
to have taken place within the range of
their local guns, detailed in humorous
style, have often elected our admiration,
and made US conclude that country sdi-
tors are the clsvsrest fellows in the world
in getting off good joke. We are 10th
to have our admiration of these witty
fellows dlspsllsd, but there is no help for
it when we see the same pun in a dozen
different papers as occurring in as many
different localities. The conviction is
forced upon Us that they are flchsd.
This 10 too bad.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-10

N xE ONLY FOR THE HERALD
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

PARADES And THE PUBLIC PEACE.
If there is any truth whatever in the story
which mischevOus people are setting ahoat
to the effect that the Orangemen are arming
for their parade on July 10, "and wish to
{" have good fight" the police ought to know
it. If the police know that preparations
threatening the public peace are actually
making, they should either prevent them or
prohibit the procession the moment the ap-
plicatOn is made with plain warning to
all concerned that parades of men armed with
concealed weapons are not to be permitted for
a single hour. 1t is indifferent whether the
men arm in distrust of the power to
protect them or in spirit of deternina-
ton to enforce as right what the
law itself comedies only as privilege the
offense is equally rank and the danger to the
public peace equally great. The abstract right
of peaceful parade no sane man denies, but in
crowded cities like this laws which we recog-
nize as Just wisely draw distinction between
the right of the Society and the convenience
of the public; and practically make parades
a question of privilege But a procession
armed for street-fghtmg is entitled to no
privilege and has no rights. The 0rangmen
must rely on the law fOr protection, and there
is no protection due men who deliberately arm
to disturb the public peace
For ourselves we do not believe one word
of the slanderous story. We have made in
quiry Of responsible men and prominent Off
cials among the Orangemen, and our infoma-
ton leads rs to believe that there will be no
parade large in numbers, if indeed there
is any parade at all; and we do not
seriously believe that single man of
those intending to take part in a demonstra
ton has ever thought of arming himself.
The statements are put forth by the
very men whose incendiary appeals wrought
the mischief Of last year. No doubts of their
statements however will Justify the police in
delaying to inform Themselves upon the ques-
ti0n, and, should they find tho rumor true. in
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25
HOW ST4TELY AND HOW GBAND.

HON SI1IEL1 AND nun ObAhD.
IF the gentlemen who recently met at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city to consider
the political situation had come to different
conclusion, it is certain that the Wilson and
Grant Journals would have spoken of them
more respectfully; but since the announce
ment of the result of the Conference 1t Is
astonishing to read the comments upon their
character made by the Administration news
papers. They are called soreheads," and
they are also called sorehearts." Their dis
cussion is stigmatized as " five hours of use
"less talking" They are " factious leaders OF
81 the opposition" 1t was ga sad meeting.
"wthout a particle of significance" This Is
the usual style in which the Treasury news
papers comment upon all men who do not be-
lieve the President TO be perfection. All the
honesty and honor the talent and ability, the
wisdom and Intelligence, the patriotism and the
enthusiasm of the age and cline are cOncen-
trated in the Philadelphia party! Such
beautiful account of this thrice happy organ
ization as we have just been reading in Re-
nomination newspaper would make us think the
political millennium close at hand-lf we be-
lieved one word of it. 1t is too good. 1t is
too delicious. Thrilling is no word for it.
"How stately and how grand" exclaims this
epical journalist, is the tread of the host
(which stands by the flag in the hands OF our
"soldier Presidentw There are "no jars
"among them, no confusion, no disappolnt-
"ments, no reentments to quarrel over, no
"revenges to satisfy; all is peace, unity, har-
"monyp ~ Then the opposing army is torn
"and distracted into paltry clans, each bent
"on the Others destruction" Now, it cannot
be denied that this is the hight of fine Ian
guage; but the pity of it is that not word
of it is true. II ever there was party pre-
senting an appearance not in the least stately
"and grand,n it is the Grant party, whistling
in this bravura style to keep up its courage,
and badly frightened in spite OF all ITS Whls-
Ting Only yesterday it was invincible, ana
it cannot comprehend why it should not be
invincible to-day Has it not the Presl-
dent Has it not the Post-06ices Has
il not the Custom-houses, the swarms of Office
holders of every name and kind What need
of other voters, if it only keeps on It's side
the voters directly in its payi Why should MT
all be "peace, unity, and harmony" when the
biggest splt in this generation has just taken
place. and all the disgusted and the dissatisfied
have betaken themselves to other quarters and
arranged themselves under another banner I
If the Grant army is MT harmonious, it prob
ably will be; for. if things continue to go on
as at present, there will hardly be enough of
it left in thirty days for good earnest intes-
tine broil
The truth is the Grant party is running just
now upon its rhetoric, which is MT of a very
good kind either. 1t is beautiful to say; " How
stately and grand is the tread of the host
(which stands by the flag in the hands of our
Soldier President !r--but what does it mean
How is q host TO tread and stand at the
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

reported but here is his argument as we find
it; In regard to the Presidents acceptance
" of presents the speaker referred to the act
" of the English Government heaping honors
/" and gifts upOn the Duke of Wellington as a
"precedentm ~ If this be sufficient excuse,
then we claim that Gen. Grant has been most
shabbily treated. He should have been made
Prince, Duke, Earl Baron, and Baronet. He
should have received from the country an
enormous pension and handsome landed
estate, If Judge HOar can see no moral diff
ference between hOnOrs and emouments be-
slowed by grateful Government and the do
nations of private individuals, With personal
ends in view, he had better buy a new pair
of spectacles. Those which he now wears arc
certainly playing him optical tricks.
After Messrs. Rice and HOaT, with one or
two insignificant speeches between, came Cen
Benjamin F.. Butler, who, if we may credit
the meager reports which reach us, made
what we are bound TO consider the most
appropriate as well as significant speech OF
the evening. The telegram says that Gen.
Butler denounced Civil Service Reform
proposition to raise an Office holding arls-
"tOcracy" This must have been painful to
audience that Gen. Grant had "labored for
"Civil Service Reform, and had been
"bafled at every point by Congress
Gen. Butler understands the President
better than Judge Hoar does. The kind of
Civil Service Reform which put Brother Casey
into office and has kept him there in spite of tho
indignant remonstrances of men of all parties
the kind which rewarded with the Galveston
Post Office the swindler whom Congress turned
out as an arrant fraud the moment his case
was forced to a hearing-the kind which
bought the President of the Philadelphia Con-
ventiOn with ten thousand dollar pay
ment of salary as Foreign Minister, with
out requiring him to leave North Carolina
to discharge its duties-is not the kind
which Gen. Butler denounces. The real
reform which Gen. Grant has studiOusly
neglected, and against which he has exercised
whatever influence he possessed in Congress,
is the sort which is abhorTent to the soul of
Gen. Butler. What Judge HOar meant by
saying that the President, though he bas
sometimes appointed relatives and friends to
"oflice, has labored for Civil Service Reform"
is more than we know, and probably moro
than he knows himself.
But enough of the Boston lp-and-lmee
service at present. The most amusing feature
of it, after all, was a promise by John w.
Geary of 10000 majority for Grant in Penn
sylvania As the gentleman might just as
well have claimed 10000 while he was about
it, we hereby tender him our best bthanks for
his moderation
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

of the Canals. In all probability,
Commodore Vanderbilt, if he owned them,
could have everything done that Is needful
for their efficiency for one-haif what the State
pays for keeping them in a state of inefiiclency'
Our superintendents and contractors are con-
stantly doing the things which they ought not
to do, and leaving undone the things which
they ought to have done, and there Is no
health in them But in this article we IN
tend to be thoroughly practical, and therefore
we cannot indulge in any hopes ourselves, or
inspire any hopes in others, of reform in
Canal management. We shall not attempt to
solve q problem which has defed the State
Government for half a century. Could some
way be found to divorce the Canals from
politics, the prospect for Improvement would
be better. AS it is, such are the connections
of the great Canal men with all parties that,
no matter which one is in power, fraud and
extravaganza prevail all the same in Canal
matters.
The only way left, and the only practca-
BILE plan, to get rid of the heavy Canal tax is
to sell, give away, or fill up, the nOn-paying
lateral Canals; to get the State Constitution
amended so soon as possible to allow them to
be sold, and meanwhile to draw off the water,
and not spend another dollar for lock-tenders,
toll-gatherers, or repairs along those solitary
bitches of stagnant water. The Erie and
Champlsin Canals pay expenses, even now
The OsWego Canal contributes something to
the Erie; but all the others cost the State
about twenty times as much as they bring in
We have compiled from the Auditors Finan-
cial Reports the following table of receipts and
expenditures of the lateral Canals for the years
ended September 80, 1871 and 1870, respectively
Nothing is included for interest on the Canal
debt, though nothing is more certain than that
the Canal debt would long before this have
been extinguished, had the State never been
guilty of the folly of constructing these lateral
Canals:
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25
Nem'21orIl Daily gribMate.
TUESDAY, JUNE %. 1872.

The report that negotiations in progress for new
Supplemental Treaty is officially denied at Washington.
s= The Geneva Tribunal meets to-day. 60 A
demonstration in honor OF the Prince Of Wales took place
IN London yesterday. The vacancy in the French
Cabinet las not yet been filed
The President has gone TO Boston. =-= The Jubilee
oratoro. yesterday, not success. ==== Greens
boro', n. c. has suffered severely from fire. z-==
Three killed and several severely injured by
steamboat explosion at New-LOndon. =--= Three Inen
were poisoned In Missouri last week through mistake
iu cOmpOunding medicine s== The Young Mems Chris
tan Association took action the temperance, TO
bacoO and Bible questions. The CAicdgO Times
pudia;es Baltimore and accepts the F1th-aye. Ticket
The iron and metal workers losing confidence in
the result Of their strike but the journeymen BARRIERS
have been partly successful An additional juror
was obtained In the Stokes case Memorials against
the STOW Pavement were presented meeting Of the
Contract Commissioners. The yacht Madeline
won the wallack Cup. Three persons were injured
by an explosion Of fireworks. === Counter afdayts
published in denial or the alleged reduction OF the
water supply in Brooklyn for the benefit OF the
contractors. Gold, 1lSl, 1lSl, llSi Thermometer,
7l0 ~, 1Oo.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25
.SI.2S1,235 55
I.ossin 1911
.sI,5f5,6IO 33

In strong contrast with the above exhibit,
the receipts last year of the Erie and Cham
plain Canals alone amounted to S2,695,755 So,
and the payments for repairs and improve
ments of all kinds, superintendence, and sal
aries, to S2,34339 AZ. In the year ended Sept.
80, 1870, the receipts of these two Canals were
,24O S8, and the expenses S2,294,8l9 0S. 1t
might be worth while, alsO to continue in
operation the 0swego Canal; but all the others
could be abandoned to-day with very little in
convenience to any one, and to the very great
relief of ninety-nine in hundred Of the popu-
latiOn of the State.
We do not insist on these points. What we
do insist on is that something should have
been done with the Canals-that the Reform
Legislature, whose members promised much
about it in the canvass, left nothing about it
on the statute-boOk. Republicans have talked
more about Canal corruption and extravaganza
than the Democrats; but we regret to say that
at the last session they did not do a particle
more to reform them.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

peremptorily forbidding an armed parade. IL IL
well enough known that we do not think
well of the policy of keeping up, in this coun-
try, demonstrations which are mainly the
sign of an old-world hate 1t is as well
known that we and all 'good citizens
have demanded equal rights for all in this
matter of street professions; and have NAM
tanned the right of the Orangemen, under such
circumstances as those of last year, to the
protection, if need be, of the whole armed
force of the State But it is one thing to IN
sist on the exercise of a right when it has been
illegally resisted it is another thing to attempt
it illegally, and with such defiance as to pro-
woke bloodshed. Let us have little modera-
ton on both sides in this matter "a compre-
henson of the situation by the police and an
early determination on some line OF policy
about IL.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

FISK & HATCH, Bankers,

no Nassau4t, NeU.York.
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f,. Bs7 20 e Ohio River ard connecting at Its eastern terminus with
F-rta al coas Of and at the western teruini
viii p m lies Of inland routes well as the whole railroad
, o.e west Northwest southwes; 90 900 miles in extent
os rs fas within present year vii be prepared for
se business in the transportation Of products between the PHn
M .,at e West ard the Atlantic coast cities, FoR WHICH IT'S
,rr r,r AND Low GRADrs PECULIARLY FAVORABLE
r r new cutie, large and superior agricultural territory
si opens TO market the coal and iron deposits on this Continent
i. tsrsrrg beautiful and picturesque country sbOundng in
1-leaa springs and Summer resorts
We t7e m sale on behalf Company and recommend as sub
,,,s.li ssl secure investment the remainder other
SIX PR CENT GOLD BONDS,
~ By oragc on whole railroad line, equipment franchises
&c. ?- roenab in coin 1885, interest payable also in gold
a r yocb,r DENOMINATIONS $780, $780, and slOO coupon
registered Price % and accrued interest Full information furnished
., ,,s.,,..,, FnK HATCH.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

There are now some indications that the
men engaged in many of the Eight-IlOur or
ganizations are seriously considering the cost
Of their determined demonstration. The loss
IN wages and time, 30 which must be added
much indirect damage, when carefully summed
up and scanned, naturally gives pause TO
tboIs who are bent on standing out iRdcG-
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25
HOW THE REFORM LEGISLATURE RE-
FORMED TILE EANALS


FORMED THE CANALS.
No charge against the late Democratic State
Administration was more general or effective
than that concerning its extravagant manage
ment of the Canals. A Republican govern
ment, we were told, would reform all that, and
to the last Legislature we were specially
hidden to look for the reforms. Well
what are they We were taxing the
people something like two millions year
for running the Canals before we are taxing
the people something like two millions
a yeaI for running the Canals now. None of
the reforms which were promised concerning
them have been secured We are still taxing
ourselves heavily for the Canals, and doing
nothing toward finding a way out of it. Is
this needful9 We do not now urge the ques-
ton whether the Canals cannot be made to,
pay expenses by raising the tolls to the level
at which they stood in 1869. Many grave
popular objections to this have been preferred !;
1t is certain that the competition of the
Canadian Canals has become formidable, and
more certain that the ipreemnence of New
York as shipping port for Western grain
and other produce is seriously threatened.
But certainly there might have been
secured more economical management
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

Another explosion is reported. A steam
lighter proceeding out of New-London harbor,
yesterday, was shattered by the bursting of its
boiler. BY this disaster three lives were lost
and five persons were injured. Each day
brings its melancholy record of fatal accidents
from steam explosions by sea and land.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

In the days of good Mrs. Wentworth Morton. the
American SapphO, the women Of Massachusetts,
were content to own gentle courtesy, an excellent
Judgment, reasonable knowledge of philosophy,
politics, and the Bible and taste for household
management. Her habit Of mind was grave and
reserved-One that put the duties of life far above
its beauties Literary culture was a secondary
affair-witness the fact that Sarah MortOn's stlff
and stlted verses gained her immense reputation
among the sages OF the time. One can but wonder
what would happen if the American SapphO were
suddenly set down amid the feminine intellect of
modern Massachusetts. Fancy the kind old lady,
lode to Liberty in hand blinking at the fair tran
scendentasts of the Radical Club, or comparing
notes with that BOstonienne read Of who, during
the past year, has crammed fifty metaphysical and
scientific works, as many of history and bellies
lettres, and five hundred novels, plays and poems.
Possibly the literary woman of the last century
would be found to have as many original ideas as
she of 1872. 1t is refreshing to know that not sli
the women Of Boston thus crushingly intellect
ual. We have heard of one Athenian damsel who
talked of ' Cupid and Sickle" of another who de-
clined to accept volume of HawthOme's on the
ground that she "never read anything American"
and of another who asked at bookstore for the
Georges under the title of "one Of them books OF
Virgils." To be sure, these are solitary instances
but they relieve minds too severely strained in the
effort fully to appreciate the incompatible learn
ing of the average Boston woman.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25
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nitely for concession to their demands. The
'usual dull times of Summer are coming on,
and a solution of the difficulty must be found
soon.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

same timei Yet it is by this kind Of stuff
that the denomination ready-writers expect to
beat the Cincinnati candidates. 1t would fail
even if they knew how to manufacture it.
but they are not good even at grinding out
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

The review of the Fifth Avenue Conference,
reproduced on our second page from The Hart
ford Post, will command general attention from
its transparent fairness, not less than because
it comes from an ardent Revenue Reformer,
whose cordial personal sympathy with the dis
appointed New-Yor squad only makes clearer
his perception of the utterly chimerical ma
ture of their schemes.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

TRIBUNE Advertisers residing uptown may
themselves the journey downtown by leaving thelr
adver emeuis with Mr. Brown, at No 54i West Thirty
serondsf on af No sos West Twentythird-st, opposite
Grand Opera House. Mr.. Brown receives advertise
ineuts up 10 5 p. H. at the regular office rates.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

Advertisers in Brooklyn will find 1T very
convc,eut 10 leave their advertisements at No. Ill Full
ton-st the junction OF Fulton aud Manst Ihe once
o. open tlll y.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

Advertisements for this weeks issue of The
wrEKlY TsuyE be HANDED in To-Day Price 50 per line
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

The Chicago Times was long the only Demo
cratic paper in the City of the Lakes, and is
still power throughout the Northwest. 1t
has fought the Cincinnati ticket from the
start with all the weapons at its command.
On the 21st inst. the Democrats of Chicago
chose delegates to their State Convention.
Seventeen of the twenty wards chose Greeley
and Brown delegates without a contest; in
the other three there was opposition, but to
no purpose. Chicago, like Baltimore, is over
whelmingly devoted to Liberalism. And as
the Democratic organ of the Northwest has,
so far, failed to guide the Democracy, we are
bound to believe that its latest new departure,
elsewhere announced, will not give it any
more influence. Since it could not keep its
old-time friends from rushing into the Liberal
movement, it cannot be expected to lead them,
as it proposes, into the New-York Party of
FOurtppD.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-25

Mr.. H. Thane Miller, President of the late
International Convention of Young Mems
Christian Associations, denies formally that
the convocation over which he presided took
the action on total abstinence, tobacco, and
Romanism which was reported by the Asso-
ciated Press. The same denial has already
been made informally in THE TRIBUNE at the
instance of Secretary McBurney.