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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-13

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people with diseased eyes ard im1i.Tt y
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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-08-10
DAILY INTELLIGENtER.
--.-
Friday, August 10, 1877.

THEY had been three months mar
ried.' The boy from the store fetched
in this little note: Dear Wife-Send
me pocket-hsndkerchief. J hn" She
went slowly to the drawer to get the
desired article, and while looking for it
she came across the following note. dat
ed two weeks after the wedaiing: Sun
light Of my Soul-You will have to
send me handkerchief Your bewitch-
ing eyes so tur:cd my head this morn
ing that forgot 10 take one with me,
for which shall kiss the sweet face of
my own thousand times when / come
home. la two hours and twenty min
utes it will tie IL O'Clock, anil then /
can come to you my beautiful rose. /
long to fly to yon. A thousand kisses
send thee my fairy wife Yours. ten
DERBY, John. She sighed. gave the
hoy the handkerchief, and sighed again
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-08-10

An OBsERvISG RAT Kennedy. the
Cambridge. Mass, fire bug" who was
psrdoned "Wednesday. July Is. left the
State Prison the following morning
After attiring himself in citizens dress.
he asked TO he allowed to take with him
q pet rat. whicE has been bis comp.n-
ion during many years of his contine-
ment. aud his request was granted
When be- went To get the rat, however
the companion of bis Imprisonment did
not recognize him ia his new dress and
ran from him An officer, who Wa. with
Kennedy, suggested to him to put Oh
his prison jacset and see Whist the effect
would be. Kennedy did Sc, and the
rat quickly ran into his arms kenne-
dy then secured the pet and left.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-08-10

A YOUNG girl from the country. being
on visit to Quaker, was prevailed
on to accompany him to the meeting
1t happened to be silent one, none OF
the brethren being moved to utter a
syllable When the Quaker left the
meeting house with his young friend.
he asked: How did thee like the
meeting." To which -hc pettishly re-
piled: Like it! Why can see no sense
in ito go and sit for whole hours IT,
gcther without speaking IL word 1t is
enough to kill Satan himself" "Yes
my dear" rrjoined the Quaker. that is
just what we want"
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-08-10

Theresa Williams, who was recently
baptized and admitted to church in
Hartford proves to be thorough trained
thief from this city. She SAWS: II
whooped in ON religion as matter Of
biz"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

AccoUNTs from California give $
most dismal account of the crop pros
pect in that State. Last year the eel
ebrated Joaqnin valley produced in
wheat and oats 10000, 900 bushels,
while it is thought that the yield thi:
year will not exceed 1C0,o 600 bushels.
A California correspondent of the New
York Graphic says:
All the news from the Pacific coast
Is disastrous. | will give it as my de-
liberate opinion that we will have a
famine in this State before the season
is over. The drought has killed all
our crops and nearly destroyed all ouI
cattle. This is the second great
drought since the settlement of Cali
fornia, and the memory of those two
will always be cloud upon the busi-
ness horizon of this wonderful State,
for capitalists will not invest money
in ranches and cattle and run
the risk of q burning season, when all
their possessions will be devoured and
aHnlhilated by the sun aud dust.
The drought alone nearly ruined the
State, but occurring simultaneously
with the bursting of the mining bub-
bic, it has proved more than the peo-
pie of the State can stand. Starvation
literally stares the whole farming pop
ulation in the face, and in few weeks
more they will have neither meat, fruit
nor grain.
People who were millionaires six
months ago are to-day eager to secure
situations as waitersand farm laborers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
SHAEL WE SERVE PARrG LEAD.
ERS OR THE SOUTH!

II is not to be assumed that the
President will nominate u Democrat 10
office because he is Democrat. He
only proposes to iavest with Office the
best men in each community. He doe
not intend to give New EIglsuder-
offices in the South or SJutherneIs
sinecures in New England. He I'D
not have the South robbed OF ten or
twenty millions annually, in sums paid
out by Federal power in the South and
transmitted for investment by caIpet
baggers to homes beyond the Ohio,
He is just and honest, his peighbors
in Ohio say. He has no embarrsssmenfs
to fear because of the action of the
Radical Senate. II this body ri &C,
his nominations he will send in tn,
names of others. II the Senate rejec
honest men, and Mr.. Hayes will in
tentionally nominate none other, very
certainly, Mr.. Hayes will incur no det
riment. On the contrary, TIE Sen
ste aud not the President would
speedily lose the respect of the
people. We see malicious newspa.
pers OF the South contemplating this
breach between Hayes and Blaine and
the Senate with infinite satisfaction
We would prefer to have Blaine and
his vile coadjutors Cooperate with the
President We must deplorc the woes
OF the country when an honest Presi-
dent, honestly seeking to serve it, must
look to his partisan enemies for coop
Grafton In executing the laws and in
melting out equal justice to all the peo-
pie of all the States. But We are not
Of those who congratulate ourselves
that Mr.. Hayes does right because the
Democratic party is prodted, but,
rather, because the country is blsss.
The fate or fortunes Of spoils-seeking
parties signify nothing il only the
South be free and the Union perpet-
uAi. Mr.. Hayes has liberated the
South, and the South would be
guilty Of fouler treason than
Beechef or Greeley ever dreamed Of,
when Secessioaism wss rampant, II the
South prove false to Hayes. We can
not expect q Northern Democrat OF Re
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
INTEREST RATES REOUCED.

The New York World tell; it, that
after the most deliberate consideration
of the present financial depression
throughout the country, the sreat mon
ey loaning Institutions sf New York
City have determined to reduce
--tes Of interest from seven TO SIX per
cent. This reduction of one per cent.
Eill curtail the income of one insurance
company alone $500, 600, aud is re-
cognition that the business condition
of the country is not spasmOdic. but
serious and permanent. The World
explains that the placing of thirty mil
lions of the four per cent. loan at par
has been 9 surprise to many men, and
many insist that it is negotiable only
on account Of peculiar and transient
financial condition. The life insurance
companies take the other view. Il
would be folly for them to lower
rates of interest If there were a fair
chance to ger more ia the near future.
Those who consider that it is a slight
thing which prevents the country from
entering upon a new era Of commercial
prosperity must admit that lowering
OF the rate Of interest by the men who
do much towards fixing it ought to re-
move the obstacle. II business is to
revive soon it may now do so, since a
reduction of, one per cent. in the
rate for the use of money may easily
make all the difference, with men who
calculate closely, between the sut ce-s
and the failure of an enterprise. If
we are on the verge Of Il revival of bus
mess such differerce ought to deter
mine it, and yet we cannot believe that
this can bring about u greet change,
though it is possible that it may ena-
ble prudent men to begin enterprises to
and through which they have been hith-
erto unable to see their way. ANY i'm
pulse thus gwen will be sound and
healthy. The World says: II! is rath-
er curious to observe that whatever
course business takes the usury laws
are a dead letter. A statuts that more
than seven per cent. shall not be paid
for the use OF money seems particular
ly ridiculous, when 10 man can get for
his money any more than six. When
he can ge. eight he takes eight, and
the usury laws are equally Ineffective,
except to drive men into evasions and
"dodges." The statute Of the State of
New York has no more Influence upon
the rate in either case than with IL e
orbit of the earth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
TINE HEATHBN CHINEEo IN
TEXAS.

Tie system OF offering rewards for
tho arrest of criminals has It's demorul-
izing as well as its beneficial effects.
The inducemsnt, beyond doubt. leads
to the taking of many criminals who
otherwise would never be appre-
hended, but, which is not wonder
full in this peculiarly progress
sive age, it would not be Unreasonable
TO suspect that sharpers occasionally
find opportunity to Appropriate re-
wards to themselves, while the ends OF
justice, the great question to be con-
sidered, is entirely out Of reach. The
,jtate's executive officer is not unmind
tul of the fact that points of a suspi
,,ous nature in this respect have to be
guarded. Proclamstions of reward
often remain in force for many years,
and in the meantime all evidence of
crime probably disappear. witnesses
die, and the accused, though q guilty
man, finds himself as safe before the
law rs though be had never commit
ted crime. He may then find en-
accomplice in the art of obtaining
booty from the State, and, becoming a
captive of his own volition, and in the
hands of his friend, is soon also the
recipient Of money obtained as con
sequence of his own infamies
A case has but lately occurred
where claim agent in this city
was applied to for information
as to whether = certain reward wa,
still in force, the applicants purpos
being to arrest aud deliver the accused
to the State, il such should prove to
be so. The claim agent proceeded to
investigate the matter, when the Gov
ernor informed him that but short
time before he had received warning
from q county attorney, that the wit
nesses In this case were dead, and
prudence lal induced him to revok,
The proclamation under which reward
could be obtsined. Circumstances
lead to the conviction ttat som,
heather Cbinte was connected with
this affair and .uspicions in this quarter
make it necessary that the State sur
round itself with precautions that
will block such schemes for plunder
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
THE IRON MOUNTAIN ROAD
MUST HAVE HIGH RATES.

The STATESMAN has referred to the
fact that the St. Louis and Iron Noun
tain Railway refuses to honor tickets
or baggage checks which reach it ci0
,he Memphis and Little Rock Railway.
The reason ascribed by the former
company for this action is that the
latter has proposed to improperly re-
duce rates. and will not advance at
Little Rock in accordance with ad-
vances made further east. The circu
lar Of the general passenger agent OF
''the Iron Mountain road declares that
the Little Rock road has persisted, af-
ter repeated and friendly remonstran-
ces from Us, in selling tickets from
Little Rock to Northern and Eastern
points at unremunerative and unrea-
sonably low rates, for the only revealed
purposeNof injurng the revenue of this
company, in revenge for imaginary
wrongs, or to force upon US dlsas-
-rous and Improbable arrangement at
the expense II our lines between St.
Louis, Cairo, Columbus and Texar-
kama. This company claims
there is no necessity for such reduction,
ard that these low rates will not in
crease the business of either company,
but decrease the revenue of both.
Hence, We desire the rates increased to
a paying basis for both companies. "
In reply to these assertions, the agent
of the Little Rock road says that sitter
July IA tickets will be sold from Lit
tie Rock to Louisville for So, and de-
CARES thai Imaginary wrongs
spoken of by Mr.. Ford are as follows
Charging arbitrary $1.25 on all tickets
sold cta Memphis; refusing to place on
sale tickets oia Memphis when he
could force the passenger gia st. Louis,
Columbus or Cairo" At Little Rock
tickets can be purchased to CincIn-
natl for Sc and to New York for $24,
and parties going to or from Texas
will save vastly by taking this route,
as it saves money and time. The fight
between the two roads arises from the
fact that the Memphis and Little Rock
road, being the shortest, has the righ
to fix rates, while the Iron Mountain,
the long line, wants to have things its
own way in tilching money out of the
travelling public.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

publican to appreciate all that tbs
President has done for Us. A North
ern Democrat never felt the iron oil
foreign despotism enter his sou. He
never felt the cracked heel of African
despotisn pinned by the bayonet to n
bended neck. He was neTsr rcbhei
by Warmoth or Kellogg of Oar D! ~
Bullock or tyrannIzed over Jy Dsy.s
or Ames or spencer or Sr,-E. II
Northern Democrats who contemp'4 81,
the triumph OF their party, III ..s
quasi overthrow OF Hayes, rather tn i
the liberation Of the South and the sub
stitution Of new for old partisan issues,
can command none of our sympathy.
We would have the South, even
as the President proposes, "stand
from under" We have been
ground to powder long enough. Let
US bury the dead past even from the
hour that Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, reanimated and rejuvenated,
stepped forth from the cemetery of
dead States reinvestsd with immortal
life.
New questions arise to take the place
of the old; new alliances among patti
sans, in aud out of Congress, must
arise. The currency question separates
the South from the East, giving us
Western allies, and the sooner we rec j,
ognize these facts and acrept their
philosophy the sooner we may eentemn
enemies like Blaine, whose power con-
sists in our folly. We accept the issue
which he presents rather than the
policy which the President would have
us approve. We love party more than
country and our Northern leaders
more than we do these hapless South
ern States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

A CONVENTION OF South western rail-
road men has just been held in 81.
Louis. The object is to build up
freight interests between st. Louis and
Texas by harmonious working. and
hence the organization will remain q
permanent one. Rates for transporta-
tion of live stock hsve been agreed
upon as follows: From Fort Worth,
Denison and Sherman, s1O0 per car.
From San Antonio and surrounding
points. $I15 per car. Prom Taylor,
Round Rock and surrounding points,
$105 per car. From Houston, t107
per car. These prices will govern, and
from intermediate points the rates will
be graded according to the aboYe fig.
ures.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
DEMOCRATS CONsULTIvG.

A secret meeting was held at the
Ebbitt House in Washington on the
tenth instant, presided over By Gen.
j. ID. Leach, of North Carolina. 1t
was composed Of Democratic politi-
clans from anumber of Southern States,
and its purpose was to discuss the duty
Of the conservative element of the
party towards what Ben Hill denomI-
mates the Presidents constitutional
policy" As this applies to the South
ern States, or to any other State, 1t
was decided that the Dem ,cratic party
owes it to the country, in further
ance of good government that Mr..
Hayes shall be heartily supported.
Al the same time 1t was agreed upo n
that any splitting Of the Democratic
party upon the support OF Hayes was
not to be thought os, ss in reason
there could be no oi 'ction raised to
his political course IS President. The
meeting adjouin,d TO another day,
when It Is said one of more Importance
viii be held, when general talk will
be INDUCED in over present political
questions, with the purpose OF
taking such open action as may be ad-
visable-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
Home and Farm.

CHECKING EVAPORATION are
various opinions entertained respecting
this subject, to which attention is often
drawn. Soils of Il yey nature have
u hard suriecc crust on becoming dry,
especially when they have been worked
while wet. Very heavy soils, when
dry, often have deep cracks, caused by
the particles of soil adhering more
closely on parting with moisture. Now,
is evaporation assisted or arrested by
loosening the surface OF the solll From
some observations during dry seasons,
have been led to believe that the
deeper the loosening Of the surface, the
quicker will the soil part with Its mois
ture. Light soil seldom forms a crust,
but dries up more readily than heavy
ones, and the deeper it is stirred the
more 1T partakes of heat and moisture,
for the reason that air and dew per-
meate it quicker.
In horse culture in light soil we use
deep-cuttipg fine or narrow toothed
cultivator, while on clay We have used
one with short harrow teeth, fine and
near together. In the garden, and
among flower beds, we use the sculil-
hoe, following with ne-toothed rake
Every such moving of the surface
breaks the lines OF cond action and
radiation, and even evaporation, causing
renewal OF work in the soil. The
r.. shly moved loose soil seems TO act
much as fresh turf turned bottom up
wards ON the surface. TIE more ad-
hesive II becomes, the sooner IL be
comes heated, and the more heat, the
more moisture from beneath. In some
soils great cracks occur in extreme
drouths, and then the light stirring OF
the surface fills up these vacancies, and
gives q more uniform temperature and
moisture. When our deeply-stIrred
loose soils become heated and dried in
summer, 1t is less owing TO direct alb
sorption and conduction of heat, than
TO the free entrance of dry, heated air.
Again, when We ridge up stiff soils
IN winter IL Is not ~ enable them TO
part with their heat more freely by
radiation and conduction, but that the
keen frosty air may Gnd It's way 10
every cavity, and thRs act as the best
aud chespe { OF fertilizers. The roller
is a compressor, but after compression
It is 2, Derilly advisable tvystir the sur
face finely and gently. The above
thoughts have come as l have visited
farms and read OF others views, and
write for more ideas aud practical re-
cords.
The Arr OF Pic FEEDISe.-A cor.
respondent of the New York Tribune,
who feeds his pigs on the ''high press
ure system" gives results o. follows:
II is my practice 10 wean pigs at about
six weeks old. / then give them all
the sour milk they viii eat, II have
it, with plenty Of corn, and when they
come 70 require more food add bran or
middliDgs, apples, potatoes; in fact,
anything they will eat; and thus feed
until they will weigh perhaps $50 or
175 pounds, when l gradually change
from bulky food 20 corn meal-eisher
soured, or scalded and then soured-
tiii they get nothing bat the latter,
with perhaps milk. ] also feed With
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

TIE Governor has issued his procla-
nation declaring that land certificates
have been issued upon the Caney and
Bernard contracts, contrary to his pro-
test and the opinion of the Attorney
General, and warning all parties
against buying the same, a. patents
will not be issued upon them. Not
being acquainted with the law govern
ing the acts of the Commissioner Of
the General Land Office in such mat
tiers, we are not prepared to make COM
ment upon the matter. The conflict
between executive officers il to be re
gretted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26


THE kilograms few days ago cor
rected the impression that President
Hayes was backing down from his po
sition as regards politics and office
h ,lders. At the Cabinet meeting held
on the seventeenth it was decided thai
mombers of the National Executive
Committee who are in the employ ot
the government must resign from one
of their positions. The conversation
between the President and Governor
Mccormick, from which different
opinion resulted, was wholly OF cas-
ual nature and not of decisive char
acter. The decision reached on the
seventeenth will necessitate the resig
nation from the Republican Nationa
Committee of Assistant Secretary oil
the Treasury Mccormick and Postmas
ter Filley, of st. Louis, and perhap:
some other of its members.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

SENATOR Ben Hill, of Georgia, sug
gests that the course pursued 10y the
President towards South Carolina and
Louisiana should not be regarded as a
Southern policy" He claims that
the Presidents course in reference to
the solution of the Southern case was
simple and honest discharge of a
plain constitutional duty, in the per-
formance of which the whole Union
was interested as we'll as the South.
He thus announced and applied a fun
damental principle of our government
and constitution, cardinal idea of all
eeputlicanism and free government,
namely, subordination of military to
civil power and the right of the people
to constitute and maintain their own
local government and TO resist and
suppress all invaders and assailants Of
that right. This should not be regard
ed as Southern policy, but as nation
al, and as dear and essential to zach
and every section, sni to every State
and every citizen of our confederacy,
as to the people and States of Louisi-
ana and South Carolina. 1t was for
this right that the revolution of 1776
vas resorted to, and the same spirit
wolld now exist, If need be, all over the
Union. Bu. the people of Louisiana
and South CIrolins were saved from q
protection of their own rights by the
wise and just action of the President
N renounciDg and repudiaiing the
reasonable and unconstitutional poi
cy which such malIgnants as Morton,
Blaine and Packard demanded OF him,
snd now Ievile and denOunce him for
not adopting.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

THE Hartford Journal and Courier,
which certainly should be regarded as
good authority at least about New
England sentiment, says that Blaine is
losing his hold upon the opinions of
the people, who very generally regard
the Presidents policy as correct. Feal-
ty to party traditions is all we'll enough
in Its way, but when the people call
for change % policy they will have
it, party or no party. President Hayes's
motto, "He serves his party best who
serves his country BEST" is excellent
philosophy, but the principle underly-
ing it iSstill more sweeping and radi-
csl in its application, and would make
it obligatory for a conscientious exacu-
tive, like the President, to ''serve his
country" at all hazards, according to
his conception of his own duty and
his country's needs, no matter what
effect his action might have upon his
party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

DAVID A. WELLS says: elf silvtl
is now remonetized, and especially il
it is to be made, as proposed, legal ten
der to any N ,unt, silver will most as
suredly advance to par with gold, and
it will be entirely immaterial with tn,
debtor whether he discharges his obi
cations In either gold or silver" This
question of meeting obligations in sill
yer may bother Mr.. Wells and the bond
holders, but the debtors a1d the tax
payers, to which latter class the bond
holders do not belong, are well enough
satisfied at the fact.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26

The Virginia Democratic Conveu
ton meets early next month and the
Republicans are vainly building theil
hopes upon split in its ranks. Thi.
will not come until the NatioBsl Re
publican party has given up the ghost,
for however one-sided things may b,
there will be Democratic union in th,
Old Dominion. One element of iti
great strength Is that the party ha.
taken hold Of living issues, and i.
thoroughly Conservative.