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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
IN HEAVEN.

Only tresS of gold-brown hair,
Saved from the sod;
Only tress Of gold-brown hair
The rest with God.
Only some withcred daisies white,
Under the SHOW;
Only some withercd daisies white,
That breathe of Woe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
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Partisan Temples to Terpsichore.

Grace Greenwood writes from Paris
to the New York Times: For the ben
eft or amusement of the few distin-
glished Americans who have never
visited Paris, | will venture to give Il
little idea of the way French theaters
are managed, or rather to note down a
few obvious peculiarities. Every
where, us you enter theater, YOU
come first upon three gentlemen. seat
ed in /. row, behind long table or
desk. These are controllers, to whom
all tickets and orders must he present
ell for inspection. and all inquiries or
appeals addressed. They are usually
eldely MEN. of sternly serious aspect,
and in their black dress suits look SOL
emn. judicial. and memorable as Plu-
to S supreme bench. dos Minos, and
Rhadamanthus. With the exception
of the Francois and the Grand Opera
all the theaters employ women for
usherS-lrice. decent bodies. though
not lovely to look upon-with neat
stuff gowns and very gay c;us. If they
sacrifice on the sOberness of their
general attire. they wreck themselves
on their bometS. which are stunning
affairs. mostly composed of ribbons.
Profound pink is the prevailing color
for all ages and compilations. Your
usher always offers to disembar-
raSS you OF your wraps. and kindly in.
| sistS OH furnishing you with little
wooden footsool, which by it's size and
tendency to hop about and disappear
mysteriously. recalls the CID name OF
''cricket." No seats we have eve,
had. III stalls, boxes. or galleries. have
seemed to us 50 easy and comfortable
as corresponding places in our owl
best theatres and opera houses, nor has
the ventilation seemed 80 good. But
| then, more space is here given to stair
way, corridors. and foyers. and it i:
the custom for all the world to go out
for promenade and Il change of all
between the acts. At the Italian thi.
atre and at most of the others there e
ordinarily no orchestra. The rising o.
the curtain is not signaled by tn.
pleasant tinkling of Il bell, but by Sc
ries of startling, ominous coups'' OF
thumps, reminding one of the awesomt
knocking at the gate i'll Macbeth.
All the theatres we have visited have
bright. gay appearance; not quite SC
profusely lighted as our own, and sc
less trying to the eyes; and. withal
an air of singular neatness and goot
preservation, the secret of which was
revealed to me one night at the Gate
| when, having fingered a few minutes
after the performance, we saw the Ell
tire corps of ouvrcuses shrouding the
seats and loges in voluminous busters
and hanging out their banners OF
brown linen OIL the outer wall of the
gilded balconies. The frank, fearless
economies Of this people take my heart
Half our extravaganza is miserable
cowardice. notwithstanding all the
drawbacks of foreign ways and for
eign tongue, we have enjoyed the few
French plays we have seen exceedingly
1t is the most delightful and perhaps
the best way of taking lessons in the
language.
Singular SuDerstitiONS about Narriape
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

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SHEEP Breeds Profits. Feeding, Care. Diseases in
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viz, the SHEPHERDS MANUAL
SHEEP ~! Pages. Well Bound illustrated viii.
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SHEEP Price onl" 81 81. sent poStpoid.
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SHEEP crs. 2I5 broadway. New York.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

When writing to Advertiser
Please say you saw the advertisement
Ia this paper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
Singular Superstitions about Marriage.

SlHEulaF SupefStltlONS ABOUT Marriage.
Since marriage became an institu
ton there have been certain signs and
supertitions that have chung to its
celebration through all ages and in ali
countries. Even to-day in the most
civilized Nations we have not entirely
rid our minds Of these superstitions
and warrant there is never a bride
but INDUCES herself in looking fo1
some happy omen. Few people are
dauntless enough to be married on
Friday, and we all have the most un
limited confidence in that old shoe
thrown after the newly welded pair
Nearly every bride of to-day wears
about her when she is married some
trit1ing thing borrowed from I. lady
friend, and all know that ':Blest is the
bride on whom the sun doth shine,
and are equally certain that
"To change the name and not the letter
Is a change for the worse, and not for the
better"
So on. quite indefinitely, it is wonder.
full how these ancient signs are handed
down from generation to generation,
and how impotent reason is to do
away with their hold upon the human
mind. Say what you will, we are nat
urally given to superstitious fears.
and there are the fewest people who
are not more or less affected by them.
But let us recall Il few of the olden
beliefs concerning marriage supcrsti.
tiOns.
In the earliest weddings we read of
among the Jews, we find that the
fourth day of the week was considered
an unlucky day for virgins to wed, and
the fifth for widows. The Romans also
believed that certain days were unfa-
vorable for the performance of mar
riage rites, and these were the Calends,
Nones and ldes of every month. the
whole month of February and May.
and many of their festivals. June was
considered the most propitious month
of the year for matrimony, especially
if the day chosen were that of the full
moon or the conjunction of the sun
and moon.
The month of May was especially to
be avoided, as it was under the intlu-
ence of spirits averse to happy house
holds, and for centuries this supersti-
ton seemed to prevail in Italy against
May marriages, and even to this day
prevails in some parts of England and
our own country. In China, marriages
are positively prohibited at certain
times and seasons, on account of their
being unlucky.
There was at one time superstition
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
FAITHFUL BRONZE.

FAITHFUL BRONZE.
The nOontide was warm, and Miss
Gladys sat upon a rock to read. AS
she did SO a tiny skitf skimmered along
as near the land rs the shallow water
would allow it. When the sailor who
was i'll it saw her. he waded to shore
and came to her. lie was Il good. sim.
pie fellow. who lived in one of the
huts OH the beach. and worked some.
times with golfers. sometimes with
tishing-smackS. He WAS full of trouble
now, and poured his sorrow out to her.
1t seemed that he had been on shore
seeking her. His wife. who was OH
board tishing.smack that lay off the
land, some mile or so westward down
the coast. was very ill-dying. he
feared-alld had begged Of him. if he
could find Miss Gladys. to entreat her
to go and speak to her. lie had been
compelled to go to the village for
bread. and tackle and.other things he
needed, but he could not find the doc
tor. This woman was Il delicate.
pretty. good-living creature. and Miss
Gladys had won her heart with many
little services III the drear winter-time
gone by. 1t was Il common thing with
her to visit the people on board their
vessels. for she loved nothing SO we'll
us to sail to and fro on the sea. She
told the sailor that she would come at
once.
''Come - she called to her faithful
dog, Bronze: hnt the sailor stopped
her.
Il dare not take him, Niss-not for
our lives - he said. :'He's the weight
of a man; and the boat is overcrowde(l
now with the things rs I've had to get;
you're to the full as dare carry
Il cannot leave him y she answered,
shrinking back; and, indeed, she never
had left him. He was always with
her, whether OH sea or land.
IL can go and come for you again,
Miss, said the fisherman ruefully;
''but it will take a goodish bit of time
and Jenny SO bad, and nobody but the
boy with her, and the doctor not to the
fore neither! Surely the dog'll wait
for you here, Miss, safe enow! Not as
Id he pressing you.''
But he did press her-pressed her
sorely. 1t was very Reluctantly that
she consented to leave Bronze there.
Nothing but the thought of the sick and
lonely woman would ever have persuad.
ed her. AS it was, she threw her arms
around him and kissed him fondly, and
then pointed to the basket of shells
and sea-weed on the red, smooth piece
of rock.
''Take care of them. Bronze,'' she
murmured, land wait till come back.
Wait here.''
She did not mean to command; she
only meant to console him by the ap.
pointment of some service. Bronze
looked into her face with eyes of woe
and longing, but he made no moan or
sound, but only stretched himself be.
side the basket on guard.
The boat few like a sea-gull over the
waves, the sun bright upon her sail.
Bronze, left upon the rock, lifted his
head and gave one long wall. It echo.
ed woefully over the wide, quiet
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

VENWenty-Five Visiting Cards. ten styles with mare
~ W. or twenty acquaintance lOc. Outfit l0c. SAIL.
PIES LOT &c stamp. uassan Card Co.. Nassau, \. y.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

army of police. The danger signal had
! hardly been given before the enemy
appeared. \ fierce fight commenced
from room to room, from stair to stair.
The robbers fought stoutly, but their
ammunition failed, and they were over
borne by numbers. Sarve qui peut be-
came the order of the day. Cartouche
escaped by chimney. gained the roof,
and descended at some distance in the
! garnet of good-natured mechanic, to
whom he represented himself as man
pursued by his merciless creditors.
His host sympathized with him, provi.
ded him with Il disguise, and he once
more broke through the tolls.
The Regent now doubled the reward
and offered free pardon to any one,
| no matter how guilty, who should be.
tray his chief. Distrust now spread
through the band, and two murders of
suspected traitors quickly followed.
But the hour of retribution was at
hand. One Duellatelet.--next to Car
touche the most fer0ci0us of human IT,
! gers...acknowledged to himself that the
game was nearly up. Plunged, as he
was, in the deepest and deadliest crime,
he saw but one chance of safety, and
that was to denounce his chief. He
made bargain with Pekom, the Aide
Major of the Gardes-Francaises, pro-
cured promise of pardon from the
Regent, and then conducted a picked
body of men to the robbers lair. Car.
touch was taken so completely by sur
prise that he was secured almost with
out a struggle, although he had six
loaded pistols ready to his hand. He
was conducted to the Cartelet, and the
process advanced quickly. Duchatelet,
certain of reprieve, confessed without
hesitation to certain burglaries and
murders, in which Cartouche had taken
part. Notwithstanding this, the latter
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

ing 10 even Pope county. that would come if our magistrates would discharge their duties? Instead of the detainment of our Grand Juries for two long weeks, at the county's expense, they need not be more than three days going through their business. The only cases that would come before them would be high crimes and misdcmeanors, and in those cases the witnesses would all be present and the criminal in jail, or bound over for his appearance befere the court. The court would be relieved of all cases ex- cepting those over which justices have no control.
 Mir. Editor, inasmuch as there are no greenbacks belonging to the public school fund to be ap- propriated to the payment of sal aries of members; no "iirst-cous- in" or "dog laws" to be enacted, at the next session Of the legis- lature, could not we get them to enact law imposing a penalty on justiees of the peace for failures in the discharge of their dutiesf They ought not to neglect any part of their duty. Yours,
 R, J. ?.
 Atkins, July 25, 1876,
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

What is nothing? A footlesf stocking without a leg
 Moving for 8 new trial-Court- ing 8 second wife.
 A Western settler The con- tents of a SIX shooter.
 Winged Merchants-Bees, be- cause they cell their honey.
 The early risers nowadays are the thermometer and the house tiy.
 When q physician deserts his profession for the pulpit the in ference is that he can preach bet ter than he car practice,
 The Norwich Bulletin says that Mir. Talmage's sermons, read in a loud voice in a potato field will drive away tho bugs.
 You cannot convince 8 dog with string of fire crackers attached to his narrative that the Ameri- can republic is complete success,
 A boys newspaper in Indian apolis is ten cents year, and anybody sending three names and thirty cents will receive a set of jack stones.
 A lady in St. Joseph, Mo-, has become so accustomed to water Ing her flowers that she was out with her watering recently, sheltered by an umbrella.
 An enthusiast who had been to hear Anna Dickinson lecturewrote her, saying: with you l could be happy in desert" And she wrote back: "No man will ever have a chance to desert me.
 "Excuse this bit of sarcasm, " said Smith to Jones, but l must say that you are an infamous liar and scoundrei." Pardon this bit of irony" said Jones to Smith, as he knocked hlin over with the poker.
 Florida alligators are getting so dainty about what they eat that when baldheadoa Norsherner falls overheard the reptiles sniii around him and wait long time before taking hirn out of politics.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

from which point he has operated on all the adjoining towns, and confcs.es to four incendiaries and fifteen or twenty robberies. He served three years in the Forty sixth regiment (Col. Woods ) Company I, of tho United States army, but was mustered out in St. Louis in 1866.
 He was born in Ohio, of free parents, in lS44, but became Q slave when he was five or six years old by his father selling himself and family to Col. Quarles, of Kentucky, to defend him (the father) in q criminal suit. Quarles sold Haywood to Gen. Forrest, and Forrest sold him to Gen. Grant, of Bolivar county, Miss, from whom he takes his name.
 He slept but little last night and did not eat anything. At 9 o'clock this morning, when your correspondent saw him he was badly frightened. Colored min- isters had sung and prayed with him all night. He asked for 6 teddy and q cigar, which were given hiven him, The gallows was erected one nile from the court house, on plateau sur rounded by hills, from winch 5000 or COCO people witnessed the execution. He stepped On the trap ten minutes after II, and in few minutes confirmed the con fession of his crimes and urged ali present to beware of bis'doom. At quarter past II the trap fell and he dropped about seven feet. He was dead in six minutes, but hung thirty minutes. This is the first hanging in this county for twenty five years.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

---We have had several friends who have won our profound gratitude ever since we embarked upon the sea Of journalism, by their kind and jealous efforts in behalf of our paper--and when we gay our paper, we mean all the people among whom we live. Heretofore these kind efforts have been gratuitous and lnrewarded. Such kindness has induced us now to show our ap- preciation of our friends efforts, by procuring few very fine and really beautiful steel engravings, which we now propose to offer as a premi- um for new clubs. These engrav- ings are not tho common cheap af- fairs usually offered, but real fine engravings which cannot be pur- chased at any dealers fer less than five dollars each. We now make the following liberal offer:
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03
------------------------- - PuAlic SPEAKING.

The candidates for the several county offices, will address the cit. isens of Pope county, at the fol lowing times and places, to-wit: Falls School House, Tuesday, 9.
 Galley Creek, near Byerley's, Wednesday, 26.
 Atkins, Thursday, 27.
 Griffin, Glass Village, Friday, 28.
 Liberty, Scottsville, Saturday, %.
 North Fork, Ben Jones', Mon. day, 31.
 Hickey, J. R. Hickey's, Tues day, August l.
 Martin, at Rushing's School House, Wednesday, ?.
 Bayless, New Prospect Church, Thursday, 3.
 Clark, Grange Hall, Friday, 4. Russellyiile, Saturday, ,.
 - Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

---AagSrs WASTED.---We want q live energetic agent in each of the following counties Johnson, Scar. cy, Newton, and Van Buren. We want men who will take an interest in this matter, and who are willing to work for pay. To such parties we will send a commission and s bundle of sample papers. These counties ali join ours. Our interests are identified and we already have readers in all, so it will not be any trouble to procure subscribers in each of these counties. Applicants will address us at once, sending good reference. Address,
 THE DEMOCRAT.
 Russellviile, Ark.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03
Eloquent Facts,

Mr. Tilden has beeh governor of the state of New York one year six months and twenty days, st noon this 20th day of July. What has he done? Look for mo ment. In 1874 their taxes were sixteen millions. Up. to New Years of 1876, they will be eight millions. He has made the canals yield more revenue on less tolls. He has rescued from the plunderers sl, ,500, 900, and turned it into the State treasury, He has vetoed s3,000,O00, in canal jobs alone. He has demanded and SC cured legislation which puts it out Of the power to plunder these great arteries of commerce any longer The day he went in to office he struck blow for Re form which resounded throughout the nation. He sent q message to the legislature which foreshad- owed with distinctness the con. trolling features which he declar- ed would mark his policy.
 First-Reform in the admins tration.
 Second-The restoration of the financial principles and policy which triumphed in the election of Jackson and Van Buren, and which left the country without a dollar of indebtedness in the world and a credit abroad with which no other nation could then compete.
 One step was followed by an- other until he had secured tue amplest remedies for official de linquencies. With the triunpbs he had secured in January and February, it was supposed that there was nothing left for him to attack and conquer. But the event proved that he was simply removing the rubbish from the field preparatory to an onslaught which we do not hesitate to say in vast inception and apparent fool hardness has never been equalled in politics, and rarely even in war. This was no pre- monition. Plundering wss gong on in the bare daylight and at night with the gas jets all turned on. The theives were reyclling to their armpits in gains ire Guently so vast as to be countless. Suddenly on the 18th of March this perfectly fearless old man sent a special message to the Sen ate and the House simultaneous ly, inviting th.ir attention to what he simply called in the be- ginning of the document, the acknowledgement of the canals. He pointed out in this communi- cation with considerable detail the fraudulent processes by which, for an indefinite period of years, the State had been plunder- ed, it's agents debauched, it's poll tics demoralized and its credit imperilled. The fullness, bold ness and directness of his state ments produced a profound i'm pression, not only throughout the state, but throughout the country,
 The legislature, though con tsining in both branches many of the notorious canal jobbers, and constituted largely in that interest, was obliged Co yield to the irresistible public sentiment which the Governors policy and message had awakened, and granted him uthority to name a Commission. The result of the investigations communicated to him from time to time during the summer of 1875. and to the sue ceedlug legislature of 1876, arres ted completely the system of fraudulent expenditure on tLe canals which he had denounced at the bar of public opinion.
 Through the adoption of vari Ons other financial measures upon his recommendation, and by the dlseless but vigorous exercise of
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

IN. B.---The attention of those desiring to reach the public is called to the fact that this paper is the only paper published in the five adjoin- ing counties of Johnson, Pope, New ton, Searcy and Van Buren. In all of these counties the DEMOCRAT is taken and read, and hence as an ad- vertising medium it has many ad- yantages.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03


 the veto power, the Governor was 1 fortunate enough to secure a re- duction of the State tax--the first year of his administration, about IT per cent, ,--and to inau-
 rate financial policy by which the State tax which was ' mills on the dollar of the assessed yalu- ation when he came into office, will be reduced to mills at least
 at the expiration of his term of two years. and at the expiration of the next succeeding year to not exceeding 3 mills.
 These are facts. There is no twisting or distorting them. Re
 pubiicans do not dare to deny them. The State Treasurer's and Comptroller's offices attest them
 in g thousand ways. No matter
 what his object was. That's etherial at best or worst. Valiant acts IS what commonwealth de
 Mands of it's guardians and rul- CTS, and it will prize them be the
 motives selfish or generous. Nor dc we imagine the people-many of them unemployed and discon- tented, and nearly all feeling the stress of poverty with a firmer clasp than ever before, are going to dicker about any question of causistry but on the other hand they are pretty sure to recognize and act on those solid substantial
 facts which touch the pocket and
 influence the judgment of every citizen of every community of every State, for one way if not another every man is tax g-paver. We point with pride to them. They justly entitle the man who hammered them out with brawny arm and never twitching nerve to the cog nomen Of Reformer. Many have aspired to that title but nearly all
 have failed, for their aspirations have ended with words without the performance of sterling deeds. This great aggressive character who has shown more positive boldness than any man in our history for twenty years did not win these substantial triumphs by the simple stroke of the pen or lolling in an easy chair in the Executive Chamber. He went from one end of the State to the other. He pleaded with people. He tore the masks from the ene- mics of decent government. As his progress was blocked he drew his sword mp on the great and small. He was leered at, taunted and all the armament of falsehood and calumny were concentrated and aimed fol L.s destruction. It was all i'd vain, for his canse was the cause Of the people and that arbitrer in ali this worlds contro- versies interveued when darkness was overshadowing him and de
 feat seemed all but imminent. The summons is now brought to him for a grayer task but no- bier mission. Jaded in body and spirits he yet generously responds. He will prove all the country hopes for and demands, and We feel the greatest confidence that long before he retires from the nations highest office peace will prevail in all the land and pros perity in every home and at every freside.