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its denupciation of all internal improve

its denunciation of all internal improve
ments, and its absolute silence on the
subject of transportation. No more in
ternal improvements oceans immunity
to the extortions and abuses of the
present monopolies and a, failure to
respond, by a word, to the universal de-
mand for relief from the exactions of
railways means the same thing. The
utterances Of the convention on the
subject of internal improvements and
its silence on the subject of transporta-
tion indicate very clearly that the Allen
county gentlemen desire to become
allies of the RAILWAYS, and expect the
monopohes they are careful not to name
to furnish the money to run their cam
paign. On the whole, the labors of
the convention will be likely to provoke
the query: Which is weakest, the
movement, its candidate, or its plat
form p Chicago litter Ocean. ,
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THE FATHER OF ALL SNAKES.

A few days since, while Joseph Shelby
was gathering raspberries, he came to
what he supposed to be a log, and being
somewhat tired, he sat down upon it to
take rest, when, much to his surprise,
he commenced moving down the hill
He was so much frightened that he did
not know for some time what was the
propelling power, but when he recovered
himself he found that it was q monster
snake carrying him upon its back. He
supposed it was from fifty to sixty feet
long, and as thick rs his body. He fell
OF during the journey, and the snake
continued down into the hollow. This
snake has been seen by various parties
for several years past, mostly in the
raspberry season, but nobody has en-
joyed such an intimate acquaintance
with the monster as Mr.. Shelby. We
would advise everybody to be ON the
lookout for this reptiliah monster dur.
ing the raspberry time.-Bamespilit
(O.) Enterprise.
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JONES.

,.,sv n man aud he lived in Jones
sx,,h yores.is county OF red hills and stones.
"a ne lived pretty muchly by getting Of loans,
IA his mules were lothing but skin and bones,
,,d his hogs we're as fat as his corn-poneF,
,,a had bout thousand acres Of land.
mi, an--and his name was also Jones'
n. suore that he'd leave them old red hills and
stones,
70, be couldn't make nothin' but yelowish cotton,
,na little of that, aud his fences were rotten,
And what little corn he had that was boughteD,
And he couldn't get living from the land.
and the longer he swore the madder he got,
And he rose and he walked to his stable lot,
And he hal!occd to Tom to come and hitch
For to ernigrate somewhere where land was rich,
And to Quit raising cock-burrs, th;s,cs and sich,
And wasting their time on barren land.
g, him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
protesting that folks were mighty big fools
That ,ud stay in Georgia their lifetime out.
Inst scratching living, when all Of thein mought
&c, places in Texas, where cation would sprout,
By the time you could plant it in the land
Brown
Was living, not lar from tne Cuec VI tuc toNus
And baniered Brown for TO buy his place.
And said that seeing as money WAS skace,
And seeing the sheriffs were hard TO face,
Two dollars an acre would get the land.
They closed at dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him wagon and tents,
And loaded his corn and women and truck, s
And moved to Texas, Were 1t took ~ F
fIs errtire nile with the best of luck
To get there and get him bit Of land.
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm,
And he rolled up his breeches and barred his arm,
And he picked all the rocks from off N the ground
And he rooted up and plowed it down,
And he sowed his corn and plowed ii down.
And sowed his corn and whoa. in the land.
Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
Vino had got SO fat that he wouldn't weighl
Was a-sittlng down, sor.cr lazily
To the grandest dinner you ever did sec,
When one of his children jumped on his knee
And says, /" y.u's soncs, which you bought his
land"
And there was Jones, standing out at the fence,
And he hadn't no wagon, nor mules, nor tentr,
For he had left Texas afoot and come .f s-i
To Georgia TO eif he couldn't ge. come
Employment, and he was looking as hum
Bile as if he had never owned any land.
But Brown he asked him in, and he sot
Hin down to his victuals smoking hot,
And when he filed himself and the floor,
Brown looked at him sharp and rose and swore
That whether mems land was rich or poor,
There was more in the man than there was in
the land
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4 WoMANS CoURAGE.

The blood-red Light OF sunset was
mirroring itself in crimson splashes in
the turbid tides of the great Western
river; the blackbird was sounding its
swest whistle through the, old primeval
forests; and Jonathan Beers, sitting by
his cabin door, smoked miscellany even.
ing pipe, and thought vaguely of the
-church-bells that used to ring at even.
ing time in the far-off Eastern village
where he had been born and brought mp.
with the roar of Penobscot Bay in his
ears.
.I'd like to hear item bells once again
afore 1 die" unused old Jonathan.
"But it amt likely I'll ever go back
now." | ls
Even while these disjointed medita-
tions passed through his mind there was
light step on the cabin threshold, and
the rustic of stifly starched pink calico,
and his niece Dorothy came to the door.
stTea's ready. uncle dear, J" said she.
"And I've baked a real New England
corn-bread, and some ginger-snaps, such
as graridmamma used to make. And
see, unccle, I've sliced up the little red
peaches from the tree you planted your.
!, !, self on the south side of the hill. Israel
Esmayne said it wouldn't grow, but il
has. I mean to keep saucerful aud
little cream for Israel tonight, just tt
sho,U him." - 51s.s'--sls
Old Jonathan laid down his knife and
fork.
EDO you mean that Israel Esmsynt
is coming here to-niglt?"
"Yes, uncle, said Dorothy, STOPPING
to recover teaspoon she had drooped
"a spoon with an antiqne silver shell
carved ON its handle-and coming vi
very rosy from the search. "Why
not 2"
eoTake care, Dotty. That's all J"
g Uncle, what do you mean 2"
"I mean, child, that I'd rather Lay
you in your grave in the new burying
ground, where there's only ono mound
yet in the shadow of the church spire
than to see you married TO man who
drinks That's what mean, Dotty !
Dorothy's head dropped over heil
plate.
Uncle, that is hardly fair. Because
man had bad habit once"
"And has it now -
The soft eyes gittered into q defiant
flash. ----
"YOu are mistaken, nncle. Israel
Esmayne has not touched Q drop of ar.
dent spirits in year. He has promised
me never to touch it again.
Il hope he never will, my girl, /" said
Jonathan Beers, although his tone
betrayed no very sanguine feeling,
e !" But it amt safe thing to do. It's Q
madness, love of liquor is, and nothing
short. It's liable to break out at any
time. Israel Esmayne's a good fellow
enough. hain't anything agin him
but it amt safe :"
Dorothy was silent. Why was it, shs
asked herself, that men were so severt
In judging one another7 Why did they
always look at the blackest and leas
promising side Of everything2 Israe
had promised her. She believed him
And that was enough
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AT a party, the other evening, Smith,
the funny man, picked from the floor
some false hair, and, holding it aloft,
wickedly asked who had lost it. I'm
pulsively the hand of every lady within
ear-shot went toiher back hair. 1t was
cruel to throw them off their guard and
expose them so, but Smith says itwasnt
his fault- -.
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CHICAGO pays a million dollNs E year
for theatrical amusements,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-22
"When the devil Was sick
The devil q monk would be;
When the devil got well,
The devil q monk was he."

~ --f Inc dcvll monk was no.
The old Democrats and Liberal Re
publicans are Just now engaged in play
ing the monk most assiduously, but
let them once succeed and the cloven
foot will be again displayed in all its
frightful deformity. y ''
This newest "new party" movement
eliminated yesterday in the nomination
of Mr.. Isacc G. Collins, of Hamilton
county, for the Office of Governor and
tho adoption of a platform. The can
didate and the platform nre about
equally pointless. That is to say, the
candidate is comparatively unknown to
the oldest or youngest inhabitant, and
the platform is collection of "gener-
alities 30 worn out, SO tame and 80
meaningless as to be not even "'glitter-
ing" For instance The convention
resolved that "both parties have out
lived their usefulness )" that " govern
ment should be restricted to mere police
duty :" that homo government should
be re-established "-as if it had ever
been abolished! Of course the Allen
county movement felt it incumbent
upon itself to indict the Republican
party for "the salary grab. I" Z" land
grants" and "the release of railways
from their obligations to the people. u
But as it condemned all who voted for
the salary bill, its indie ment falls most
heavily upon the Democratic party, fol
greater number Of Democrats proper.
tionally than Republicans voted for the
increase. And as the Democratic party
has been as much in favor of Gland
grants as the Republican party, its
anathemas on this head fall with equa
weight upon all who are engineering the
new party. And as Democrats, equally
with Republicans, voted to substitute q
second for first mortgage on the Unior
Pacific railway, this part OF the indict
| ment is self.stultifcation also. Tn,
platform contains platitudes on the sub
ject Of. !" irredeemable money" tin
!" tariff" capital and labor. "grant'
of special privileges. etc.
But there are two significant thing
| about this exceedingly stupid platform
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VARIETIES.
OK hand-The fingers.

OK hand.-The fingers. < 81 abs, it
A NEW name for tight boots-A corn
crib. 1'p .Y 1 g az; g" l.'..iis5
WE are all apt to believe what the
world believes about us. = -.
WHAT did Adam first plant in the gar
den of Eden? His foot.
"How TO make both ends meat''-See
that neither end is bone.
How TO make tall man short--Ask
him to lend you five dollars.
The happiest women, like the happi-
est nations, have no history.
aa "WInD OARS" are said to be the only
crop that grows by gaslighs.
Why is a whisper forbidden in polite
society? Because it isn't aloud. go.
In Europe call roads lead to Rome"
In this country all roads lead to Rum.
wHY is it profitable to keep fowls?
Because for every grain they. give.
peck. al Wi i HsssDT idiEt3
WHAr is that which no one wishes to
have and no one wishes to lose? Abald
head. asp.tsse-t sas 6ae,H ilv
VERMONT is OF. run with the Oranges.
Almost every town in the State has
lodge. - 'Fs
WHY is a stick of candy like horse ?
Because the more you lick it the faster
it goes. g '''ll' i'e' % ''t
How CAN every dog be said to have
his day when there are only forty-two
dog days in year? laif
The New York Rendering Company
think they can defy the law because they
possess large sinking fund
The women take lively interest in
the farmers movement. They are nat
urally Patrons of Husbandry.
The question whether girls should
marry, young depends upon whether
Brigham is the Young they want to
marry. .l4a a 5,f,s.4g ~
HEATED street discussion don't
believe in spiritualism. I think this:
If man goes to hell he can't come
back here !; if he goes to heaven he
don't ,odnt to-"
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KyERY-pAY RHYaIEs.

EVERYDAY RHYMES. m
The weather-cock makers are vain
or the vanes they expose to the blast;
The bellows-man ne'er will refrain
From " blowing his wares to the Last;
I Alawyer's existence is brief; es
i Aprinter 'sainst vice should be proof;
The builder will soon come to grief
Who commences to build at the roof. (
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-12
LOUISIANA.
The Excitement Unabated-The People
Of Grant ArmIng to Resist Service
OF Writs.
Kellogg aid His Metropolitan Thieves
The Shaky Navy OF the Usurping
Governor.

ST. LOUIS, May IA special dis
patch from New Orleans, dated yester-
day, SAYS the batteries will be in camp
tomorrow at Annunciation square, and
four infantry companies in other parts
of the city, being reinforcements to the
federal troops ordered to the Red river
country, ordered to arrest the Colfax
rioters. Information is received cor
roborating the news of preparations for
an organized resistance to the service OF
writs. There is great excitement in. that
section. The Nineteenth regulars will
be stationed throughout the State in dis
affected parishes. The reports of the
cholera here are untrue. The fusion
ists' State convention of the people to
protest against Kellogg, to be held in
June, will adjourn to reassemble when
congress meets. A call extensively cir.
eulated for the opponents of Kellogg
to meet tonight armed at Lafayette
square created excitement, but evoked
no response.
MOVEMENTS OF THE GOVERNORS NAVY
. BRAsHEAR CITY, May 11.-Kellogg',
gunboat Ozark arrived this morning
and his dilapidated concern, the steamer
Iberia, is expected to return from st
Martinsville this evening with the Met
ropolitans, the United States troops hav
ing arrived there. It is rumored her
that the Metropolitan cavalry is com
posed of United States customhous,
clerks, who had to volunteer or accep
their discharge, under the customary
summer rules of reducing expenses. i
is stated that they receive pay as Gus
tomhouse clerks and also as deputy
marshals,
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SOUTHERN NEWS.

The Baptist State convention con-
venes at Aberdeen on the twenty-eighth
instant.
The States says business has been I'M
usually lively in Brownsville this week.
The depot is crowded with cotton, and
the cry is "still it comes"
The Tennessee supreme court has re-
Gently decided that the marriage of ne
groes while in a state of slavery was le-
gitimate. Judge Head delivered the
opinion.
Thirteen thousand dollars are required
to complete the building and purchase
the necessary machinery for one hun
dred looms and thirty-four hundred spin
dies for the Brownsville cotton mill.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in East Tennessee, and is playing
havoc with the meadows and grain
fields. One farmer, near Talbots Sta
ton, had thirty acres of fine clover to
tally destroyed.
We see from the Nicksburg HeT0lC
that the Vicksburg Educational, Agri
cultural and Manufacturing aid society
still continues to " scratch the back o
| the average Vicksburgian," the decision
| Oh LUc 5upItLlc COuAl " lIC bOhAAoi >
notwithstanding.
The Water Valley manufacturing com
pany, under the direction of the abl'
and efficient president, Colonel M. ID
L. Stephens, is assuming definite shape
and the stock subscription is rapidly in
creasing. Mr.. J. Q. Morrison, soliciting
agent for the company, is actively en-
gagged canvassing for the enterprise
| Success to the good work.
The Mississippi Central says: " Geo
w. Harper, of Kinds, is strongl.
recommended by two of the leading
Conservative journals of the State fO
governor. If Major Harper could b
gotten before the people without tn
agency of convention, the prospect
of Mississippi would be more hopefu
than at any period since the era of Rad
cal control"
The Crockett County Sentinel is th
name of live paper just started at Ala
mo, the capital of Crockett county, &c
tied and published by Fisher & Elliot
We have just received the initial nun
ber, and congratulate the citizens
Alamo and Crockett county in the
good fortune in having such a wide
awake representative of their public il
terests. Success to you, gentlemen, an
NAV YOU grow rich.
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THE HALL EXPEDITION.
DIR. ]. ]. Hays Interviewed Theory
of the Story Of HalPs Death.
lie Thinks the Expedition Success,
and is Supported by Professor
Beard.

NEW YORK, May 1l.-Dr. J. ]. Hayes,
the Arctic explorer, in an interview rela-
tive to the failure of the Hall expedition,
expressed the opinion that the Polaris
was unfit for the service, and that the
injury to the vessel was caused by de-
fects in her build. Captain Hall, said
the doctor, was four hundred and sixty
four miles from the north pole. He
.(Hall) has proven what have predict
ed long ago, hat Smiths sound was
navigable, and was the true passage into
the open polar sea, which he seems to
have reached. Why he was driven back
] cannot tell; probably by drifting ice
fields or gales of wind; but l have
no doubt he had reached the polar sea.
There is one remarkable fact about his
explorations; he had constant sunshine
all the time, and survivors who were
drifting down south waters were all the
time without a ray of sunshine. can't
understand why the ship, when it was
so near Northumberland island, would
draw up before the ice and discharge its
cargo ON it. / think there was dis
sention on board, and it looks
to me as though this party
had been determined to leave the
ship. There is a mystery about this
part of the report that cannot fathOm.
/ think that Captain Hall has done q
glorious thing. He has gone further
north with his ship than any human
being ever did before him, although
others have gone as far in sledges. Cap
tain Hall seems to have broken the ice.
bergs of Smiths sound, which baffleC
both previous expeditions, and succeed
ed in reaching a point which both
Kane and [ claimed to have
seen, the open Polar sea, latitude
eighty-two degrees sixteen minutes
the most northern latitude ever reached
by any ship. His ship was two hun,
dred and nineteen miles further north
than Kane's ship. l can't understand
why the survivors were left TO the mer.
cies Of the place, unless there was diff.
Guilty on board the ship at the outset. A
Alusee there was some difficulty be-
tween Hall and Buddington, but thi:
was settled by the captain of the Con
gress. There was something very mys
terious in Captain Halls death.
would not like to say that ht
was killed by one of his mel
in mutiny, but it would almos
| look so. l have never known of any
| one dying III InaI region OF appopleXy
and Captain Hall certainly did not lOOl
like an appoplectic man. 1 think ther'
is strong probability that the people OF
board the Polaris are safe, and that tht
vessel will be back here by September
The men who deserted the ship probably
did so because of Halls death. He wa
brave and resolute man, and set ou
with the determination to reaci
the north pole, if it woulC
take him five years to do it. He wa
one of the pluckiest men ever saw, anC
would certainly have stayed two year
more to accomplish his purpose if deatl
had spared bim-death or murder,
don't know which,
Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian
institute, thinks Halls expedition ia
from failure, and has no doubt it real
lied many of the objects in view il
sending it out.
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through drift, but the pilot gave way,
was smashed, and the engine mounted
the rail. Hence further delay. The ac-
cidents were not, as / understand, from
any careIessness, but because the storm
was the worst on the Kansas Pacific for
two years some say the worst they have
ever had, and the snow was packed as
solidly as sand In the deep cuts. Every
thing was done for the relief of the de-
Iayed passengers, but the storm would
not allow of much work. AS soon as
the wind subsided, a heavy force cleared
the track, and by Sunday morning, at
eleven o'clock, four trains heavily
crowded three following ours arrived
here, where we found "smiling spring"
and good cheer once more. Altogether,
our trip of one hundred and thiriy-twO
hours, from Kansas City to Denver, six
hundred and thirty-eight miles, was not
expected, nor wished for. yet the pas
sengers could not complain of any mac
tivity on the part of the railroad compa-
ny. At Hugo, our conductor, McCarty,
took charge of the dining ball, and
treated the passengers with such courte-
sy as to make every one feel almost COM
Portable, under difficulties. R. d.
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THE CATERPILLARS.
The Pests that have Taken Possession
OF Farms, Fences and Railroads.
Another Plague-What will the Farm.
ers De!-A Question for the
Oranges.


From an Occasional Correspondent.l
SARDIs, Miss, May 8, 1S75.-Perhaps
not the least of all the causes of unpleas-
ant apprehension and nervousness IN
this region is the presence and the as
tonishing ravages of those furry little
"cusses," the caterpillars. They are
here and there and, everywhere, out OF
doors, on the houses, all over the houses
and in the houses; on ones clothes, in
ones clothes, under ones clothes, and
all over one. They have not only taken
possession of houses, trees, gates and
fences, but they have actually marched
in full force and taken full possession Of
the railroad, and SO firmly have they es.
tablished themselves upon it that writ
of ejectment would have no more effect
toward removing them than the sigh o.
musquito They stop the cans every
day, more than once, and though the
iron-borse slaughters them by millions
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A RUFFIAN ARRESTED.
Bradbury. the AbductiOnist, Arrested
by Sardis Policeman.
He Shows Fight, but is Secured and
Lodged In Jail, in Default Of Bail.

Special TO the Appeal.
SARDIs, May 11.-John Bradbury, the
man accused of seducing the young
schoolgirl, of which the APPEAL was
furnished with an account a few days
since, was captured at two o'clock this
morning. The mayor of Sardis learn
ing that Bradbury had not left the
county, and that he was lurking around
in the vicinity Of Sardis, promptly de-
tailed special policeman, who was fur
nished with particulars and instructions
in the premises. The officer proceeded
Immediately to the locality indicated as
the hiding-place of the monster, which
proved to be the house of 2 negro fami-
ly, i'm an unfrequanted part of the
county. Arriving at the house, and as
suring himself OF the presence of his
fbird," be proceeded quickly
into Bradbury's presence, and
Informed him that he was a prisoner.
Bradbury, instead Of submitting quietly
10 the demand Of the officer to surren-
der, struck a defiant attitude and made
threats to shoot anyone who approached
him, carrying oct his desperation to the
extent OF presenting a pistol. The off.
Ger was not slow to take in the situa.
ton, and immediately seized the
weapon and the man, and a sharT
struggle ensued, which resulted in the
disarming and complete subsection o
Bradbury, who was brought into towT
this morning, and sent to Jail in de
fault of five thousand dollars bail.
man named Wilhelm, an accomplice o
Bradbury's, will, it is thought, be ar
rested during the day, and it is hope,
that both will get the fullest extent o
the law. The unfortunate girl has beer
returned to her parents, and among he
acquaintance the deepest sympathy !
manifested.
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Mr.. Romayne Broadhead died in New

Mr.. Romayne Broadhead died in New
York city on Tuesday of pneumonia
Mr.. Broadhead was born in the city Of
Philadelphia in 1914. He was the son
of Rev. Jacob Broadhead, of that city
For a great number of years Mr.. Broad
head had made New York his home
He was a graduate from Retgers College
of the class of 1881. He studied Law
and was admitted to practice in 1885
AS an antiquary he distinguished him.
self by his Investigations into American
history, and he was regarded as one o
the most valuable members OF the his
torical society, to whose records he hat
furnished many results of his extensive
historical researches.