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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
OUR .SCHOOLBOY DAYS.

I'm thinking of the olden time,
The sweet long time ago.
VIII We were boys tocather, Ray,
With larry. Jim and Joe.
Though many years since then have past.
And we are men to-day.
I'll ne'er fol GET as boys we were
The gayest of the gay.
What fun we used TO have when boys,
When on our way 10 school
How oft we'd go across the fields
And through the woods so cool.
Oft we'd gather wildwood flowers
Which grew ong the way,
And give them to the pretty girls
Who came 10 school that day.
And too. still remember, Ray,
That in those days gone by,
When we We're boys and went TO school.
Rivals were YOU and L.
We both stToye hard 20 win a smile
From one we ooh loved well;
That you DER Lie cui.e won the prize,
It's needless now 10 tell.
But how my heart with anger burned.
And how | enVied you.
And how struggled with my love,
] know you never knew.
But, deepest hatred then | felt,
Twas well you did know;
Though pretended friendship still,
was your deadly foe.
I felt IS though his life for me
Had not another charm.
And nFughC YVES lett for me to do,
But strive 10 work you harm;
For you had taken all from me
| thous hI theie was in lie.
The one owed and thought was mime,
Had now become your wife.
But I've forgiven years age
Your conquest over me:
For have won another .ove,
AS true as love caa be;
And | can smile on looking back
To those o d dimes to-day,
And have no anger in my heart,
Though We were rivals, Ray.
JULIAN JouNso
WagerIV Hd0dziDe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
Debts OF Honor.

The famous Paul Jones, having re-
solved to pay his debts first discharged
those which he deemed debts of hon
or. An artisan, who was one of his
creditors, called on him and presented
his bill. 81 have no money just now,
my fIiend-I have no money just now,
my friend" But, SIR [ know that
you paid away fifty pounds this morn
ing, and that you have still some
left. !" "Oh that was a debt of
honor. !" Well, sir, | will make mine
one also and, so saying, the man
threw his accounts into the fire. Paul
paid the debt ON the spot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

The two feet gauge railroad between
Billerica and Bedford, Massachusetts, is
nearly completed. 1t will be eight and
one-half miles long, and will cost less
than Sc, 900 per mile, or about one-eighth
the cost of ordinary railroads. The
passenger cars for this road, now build
ing at Laconia, n H, will be a decided
novelty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

The worlds annual production of SUI
gar aggregates 2,150,000 tons of cane
sugar, 100000 tons of beet-root sugar,
10000 tons of date sugar, 10000 tons
of maple sugar and 10000 tons of sor-
ghum sugar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

A Baltimore firm put up l, 400, 600 cans
of oysters last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

1t is estimated that 10000 oil wells
have thus far been dug in Pennsylvania,
and West Virginia, at an aggregate cost
OF 49,. 100000. They have yielded
about S8,000,000 barrels of oil, valued at
the wells at $500, 100000, or s4OO, 900 600
at the seaboard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

Russia has, in the last six months, ex-
ported wheat to the value of over S13,-
100000, against wheat to the value OF
S8,O00:000 for the corresponding period
last year. So, in spite of the war, she
has had food enough for her own peo-
pie and handsome surplus for outside
nations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

The FARMERS HoME.-The farmers
home In America has a broader signifi-
canoe and a deeper influence than in
any other country on the globe. These
are not meaningless, fanciful express
sions, for the houses of the people in
this country derive their character from
the educational and social culture which
pervades society. We find here that
the progress of architecture is closely
interviewer with the progress of learn
ing, with the acquil ements of wealth
and of knowledge of the finer arts.
1t would be folly, indeed. to urge the
common people of Britain, or the con-
tinent of Europe to erect for themselves
fine mansions or dwelling-houses, be-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19

in silence, as though he were indulging in
some disagreeable thoughts. Evelyn gave
an impatient sigh. There seemed to be some
thing wrong all round, and she wished the
the visit to Los Pinos had never been made
The sigh reused Julian from his reflections
He turned to her with smile and made q
pleasant remark, quite foreign to the former
subject, and they continued talking gaily un'
til they reached home.
The next few weeks passed without any
thing important occurring to mark their
course, except the preparations for the we'd
ding, which went rapidly on. They were not
very elaborate, for Evelyn declared that there
shonld be no merry-making-only quiet
breakfast or lunch for the very few friends
who were to be invited and as to trousseau
the very idea of one was absurd in that re-
mote region, where silk dress, or a Paris
bonnet, would have seemed utterly out Of
place.
The momentous day arrived at last. The
morning was soft and clear. A lovely blue
sky smiled down upon the rejoicing earth
The sunbeams, as they kissed the streams and
flowers, the birds carolling in the trees
the light zephyrs as they waved their per-
fumed wings, all seemed harbingers of un'
clouded happiness and peace. and whispered
no warning of sorrow to come.
The clergyman who was to perform the GER
emony, Mr.. Edmonds, was to come from a
settlement several miles of, the nearest where
there was an attempt at an Episcopal Church
Punctually, at the appointed hour, he arrived
The guests assembled the bride, contrary to
the fashion of brides, was not late, and as the
clock struck ten, the little party gathered in
the parlor, which had been tastefnlly decora'
ted with wreaths and garlands for the occa'
sion.
Everybody knows what brief ceremony is
that of matrimony, as set forth in the Amer
ican Prayer Book, revised from its original
form in the English ritual. Major Lynd'
hurst would have preferred the latter being
used, but had forgotten to specify his wish,
and so the shorter form was used an acci.
dent which afterwards seemed significant to
their minds, as it happened, for had the case
been otherwise, the words which finally pro-
nounced them man and wife, would never
have passed the clergymans lips. The bles-
sing had just been uttered. Evelyn, no lon-
ger Evelyn Lyndhurst, had turned to receive
tue embraces of her father and sister, when a
loud and rude knocking at the door startled
them all. 49,. .: 20
Miss Lennox, who stood near the window,
was observed to turn very pale and clasp her
hands and as Martin approached to open
the door, the words II knew it" or some
thing like them, escaped, in an agitated whis-
per, from her lips.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19

s3WHAT AN OLD MAN HAS fNomeED.-I
have noticed that ell men are honest when
we'll watched. H,sin. hs1lmnlvo g.i"&i ha!"
1 have noticed that purses will hold pen.
MES as we'll as pounds. !, :: o., }4.'..'! =
I have noticed that merit is always measured
in the world by its success. t..E .".....1..!<y
have noticed, in nearly all things, that
money is the main object in view. ,,Gl.
l have noticed that in order to be resona-
BILE creature, it is necessary, at times, to. be
downright mad. ..iuiiiy:.sy ..sa .,.,.gi,n.
I have noticed that some men are 20 hon
eat that necessity compels them to be. dishoa-
est in the end. s .-a "..i; as.'. ..,. !..a tis..
I have noticed that silks, broadcloths, and
jewels are often bought With other peoples
money! !saa ". .hiE9;igs9l t,D.:yl.r
I have noticed that whatever Is, is right,
with few exceptions-the left leg, and the
left side of plum pudding, .5.5. 3 4 4rs..at H.
have noticed that the prayer Of every sel-
fish man is Forgive Us our! debts,ng while he
makes everybody who owes him pay to the
utmost farthing. ...,.. ,.,5 nm, ..,I.n. n.r.., !,
I have noticed that money ,is the FOOLS wis.
dom, the knayes reputation, the poor mans
desire, the covetoua mans ambition, and the
idol Of all. ,o,,. ~ "A ti.., r.. ao4,
I have noticed that all men speak we'll Of
all mems virtures when they are dead, and
that tombstones are marked with epitaphs Of
the good and virtuous., Is there any particur
lar Cemetery whore all TIE bad men are
buried? -. ~. -. ,5.. ....z ,,I I,.b,,y !.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19
fro BE CONTINUED.

Moss ON YOUNG TREEs.-We hear the
inquiry many times every year: "What shall
we do to prevent moss growing on young
fruit trees s'' It may be removed by washing
with weak ley, or thin lime white-wssh, or
strong soapsuds or it may be simply scraped
of, if thick, and the bark then washed with
soapsuds. Moss is much more apt to grow on
feeble, stunted trees with old, rough bark,
than on thrifty, smooth ones, and hence good
cultivation and vigor are best to prevent it.
Sometimes it is the result only of the trees
being much shaded, in which case it is not to
be regarded as very formidable evil in it.
self. .... = :,.. l..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19

a novel, but practical, plan by which TO re-
duce the fort. He suggested the idea of erect
ing, near the FORT an oblong pen, so high that
it would overlook the fort. The plan was at
once adopted. individuals were mounted on
horses and sent in all directions through the
surrounding country, for the purpose Of pro-
curing axes. So soon as sufficient number
of axes were secured, all hands were taken to
the woods. Some were put to telling trees
and cutting logs of the proper length; while
others were directed to carry the logs to the
proper place. The garrison saw all this going
on, but we're unable, for the want Of artillery,
to prevent its progress. .... ..,-a. ...
On the night of the 22nd, Maham's tower,
as it was called, was finished. Near the top
and above the heighth of the stockade, was
placed floor of logs. In front, was kind
of breast-work. In this high pen, near its
top and overlooking Fort Watson, a chosen
band Of riaemen was placed SO, soon as the
work of erection was complete. ~ ..
The night of the 22nd was cloudy and dark.
Silently, but rapidly, the work of erecting
Maham's tower advanced. Just at the dawn
of day the riaemen, placed in the top Of the
pen, began to fire upon the garrison below
them. At the same moment dstachments
from the forces of Marion and Lee rushed up
the mound and began vigorous attack upon
the abatis, which protected the ditch that sup
piled the garrison with water. Mckay now
seeing that resistance would result in com.
plete slaughter, hung out white flag. The
garrison soon capstulated, the Americans
having lost two killed and six wounded. The
British lost everything. Only few were
killed, but the whole garrison, officers and
men, were taken prisoners, and all the sup.
plies fell into the hands of the needy Ameri.
cans. .... rsal !
The success of Marion and Lee at Fort
Watson, was Justly ascribed to "Maham's
tower" This tower has been styled zone of
those ingenious devices which are perhaps
more readily found by primitive than an
educated people" This may be true; still
the erection of this tower made the name of
Maham iIlustrous in South Carolina during
the remainder of the war, and twill perpet-
uate bis memory for many generations yet to
come.
1t is but just to remark, that the sugges-
ton was not original with Maham. In Feb
ruary, 1881, General Sumter made an attack
upon Fort CRANKY, near Columbia. The be-
siegers labored under the same disadvantages
that Marion and Lee had to contend with at
Fort Watson. Colonel Thomas Taylor, q
citizen of Columbia and an unfaltering Wbig,
devised structure of this kind. The only
difference in the two structures was that Tay.
lor used fence rails, and Maham used logs, in
ternotched, 90 that they were steady and
strong. So far as We know, whatever merit
is due to the device, it should be given to Col.
Taylor. Maham is justly due to the credit Of
having greatly improved it. -.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19

LIVE SrocK.-When the coat is shedding,
the use of the card, or smooth curry-comb,
should not be neglected. There is then an
irritation Of the skin, which is allayed by brush
ing or earding; besides, the loose hair is re-
moved and does not rub off on the clothes.
A teaspoonful of sulphur; daily, to every ami.
NAL, for week or two, would be helpful.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19
T WISH HIHAn-GAPITAL.

We have Thousands of young men all over
the sonth, who are frequently heard to express
this remark, to whom the following good ad-
vice, given in the Boston AgrieuAurist, will be
a God-send if they will only act upon it.
The writer seems to understand the situation
fully: A..
II wish I had capital" so we heard great,
strapping young man exclaim the other day in
our Office. We did want to tell him piece
Of our mind so bad, and we'll just write to
him. You want capital, do your And sup
pose you had what you call capital, what
would you do with it2 You want capital 7
Haven't you got hands and feet, and muscle,
and bone, and brains-and don't you call
them capital1 What more did God give to
anybody? "Oh! but they are not money"
say your But they are more than money,
and no one can take them from you. Don't
You know how to use them? Ifyou don't, it
is time you we're learning. Take hold Of the
first plow, or hoe, or jack-plane, or broad.axe
that you can find, and 60 to work. Your
capital will soon yield you large interest.
Az, but there's the rub. You don't want to
work you want money or credit that you may
play the gentleman and speculate, and end by
playing the evsgaboDa. Or you want plan
tation and negroes, that you may hire an over.
seer to attend TO them, while you run over the
country and dissipats ;or want to marry some
rich girl, who may be foolish enough to marry
you for your good looks, that she may support
vou. -...:rJ ": g"i.~7ET' Fl" '#
Shame upon you; young man! Go to work
with the capital you have, and you'll soon make
interest enough upon it and with it to give
you as much money as you want, and make
you feel like man. Ifyou. can't make mon
ey upon what capital you have, you could not
make tiff you had million dollars in money.
If you don't know how 10 use bone, and mus
Gle, and brains, you would not know how to
use gold. If you let the capital you have be
idle and waste and rust out, It would be the
same thing with you if you had gold; you
would only know how to waste.
: Theurdon't stand shout ike ~ great, help
less child, waiting for somebody to come in
and feed you butgo to work. " Take the first
work you can find, no mRtter what it is, 80
that you be sure to do"it as Billy did bis
drumming g++-well. sd Yes, what you undertake
do itwell always do your besk If yen man.
ago the capital you already have, you will
soon have plenty more to manage but ifyou
can't or won't manage the capital God has
given you,l you will never have any more to
manage ;.aI''o@:fh Dor s12fait 70 T9N's&
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06
Strange Doctrine for Demo
cratic Representative.

Mr.. z. J. Ellis, member of Congress
from Louisiana, makes it known from
Washington City, through ''Buel, of
the n o. Democrat, to all whom it may
concern that s. he does not think that
" Blackburn, of Kentucky, has any
g strength for Speaker of the House for
" the reason that great many of the
" Southern Representatives are of the
" opinion that if the South gave him its
- votes il would be construed on behalf
g of the Administration that the South
g ern people are not willing TO recognize
g that Hayes means to do all he can to re
{. lieve them from the fettered condition
q which eight years of Radical hate and
= bondage had reduced them to-" In
other words, that a Democrat otherwise
unexceptionable is to be sacrificed by
. Southern Representatives, because the
Republican Administration, with a
fraudulent title), would cons:rue his
election as sign of unthankfulness to-
wards it mot for appointing, as it has
done, ultra Republican partisans to office
in the South, buD for carrying out the
policy initiated by President Grant in
removing the military props from Pack
ard and Chamberlain, or as Senator Nor
ton has expressed it, accepting the stu
alton as it was bequeathed to him." Could
more slavish obedience to the powers that
be, Republican as they are, be inculca-
ted, and yet we are told it is the doctrine
which a Democratic Representative from
Louisiana is teaching We presume the
objection of the Administration to Mr..
Blackburn is caused by his consistent
opposition to the Edmunds Electoral de
vice, and to his cooperation with others
for defeating the count by tiilibustering
tactics after it was ascertained by the
Commission that its sole motive was not
to determine who had received a majority
of the votes of the legally appointed
Electors, but to count in Mr.. Hayes
whether he had been chosen by the PEG
pie or not. The latter branch of the pre-
posterous objection would apply to any
one of the 116 Democratic members who
voted to discontinue the count after the
cloven-foot of the Commission obtruded
itself, and among the number, Hon. H.
d. Money and Hon. G. Z. Hooker, of
Mississippi, both of whom have been men
toned for the honors OF Speakership. We
should consider it reproach upon the
Democratic members if they permitted
any such ignoble consideration as is sug
gested by Mr.. Z. John Ellis to influence
them in the choice of presiding officer
of the House of Representatives.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06

CONGRESSMAN ELLIS, of Louisiana.
who arrived in Washington the other
day, says of the Speakership that " Ban
dali will not be the candidate of the
Southern people, because of his hereto
fore known hostility to the Texas Pacific
Railroad scheme and Southern internal
improvements generally" OF course out
siders know little about these Congress
sional matters, but the Southern De
mocracy will remember that speakeT
Randall in appointing the Pacific Rail
road Committee in the last Congress,
selected a majority of decided friends of
the measure AID that the Chairman of
the Committee was none other than a
distinguished Representative from Mis-
sissippi--the Hon. L. @. c. Lamar.
Before Mr. Randall is offered up to ap-
pease the vengeance of the present AID
ministration We trust they will pause
and reflect that at time when Northern
opposers Of the Radical Military admin
istration of the South, we're few and far
between, ne stood by the side of Hon.
james b. Beck, of Kentucky. and inter
posed his own breast between her people |
and the shafts of her prosecutors.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06
Special to the n. o. Democrat.

WASHINGTON, May 26.-The prompt ac-
ton of Gov. Nichols in the Law aSsassina-
ton case has had good effect on the Adj
ministration. and will go far to silence the
clamOr III the Radical Press, which is lively
concerning that ana the Chisolm case in
Mississippi:
Nothing is more nauseating than the
disgusting toadyism of which the above
is a sample. What has Governor Mich
oils done or what more could he do,
without overstepping the limits of au-
thority prescribed for the Executive,
than Governor Stone, that the admin
istration" should be Propitiated towards
the one and wrathfnl towards the other?
And what has the Administrations" more
to do .:coneerains the Chisolm case" in
Mississippi, than it has concerning tbs
recent hideous murder leases" in Hi
nois; and the lease" of the breaking up
of session of the New York Legislature
the other day and cudgelling the mem
bers because they did not vote to suit
the mob which assailed it?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06

JUDGE FooTE's letter on the charac-
ter of the late j. w. Gully was designed
to show that a good citizen and law
abiding man had been assassinated. In
publishing the letter in the CLARION, the
following paragraph was unintentionalIy
omitted:
| cannot give truer or more faithful ac-
count of him, as the Executive of that no.
ted county, than to detail a conversation be-
tween Gen. Giilem and myself:
| was in Vicksburg while Gen. Gillen
was The military commander of the State.
He informed me that he had good reports
from all the counties in my district, except
that of kemper, and that county 'gave him
more trouble than all the other counties in
the State. and that there was man up there
named John w. Gully who must be a terri
bly, bad man." / asked what charges were
against him. The General repeated several.
Some of them | knew to be false and did
not believe any of them were true. | told
Gen. GiIlem [ might possibly forfeit nv
own place in contradicting these reports
but, nevertheless. felt it mr. duty to speak
the truth in vindiea.ion of an injured man
told him Mr.. Gully was, perhaps, the best
slandered man i'll the country, that knew
some of the charges were false, and doubted
the correctness or any Of them. that he was
the best Sheriff in the district, that no ca
pias in State cause was left unexecuted.
when the defendant could be found in his
county. The General expressed surprise atN
my opinion, but | heard of no more COM
plants against MIR. Gully, nor did lose my
Office for making the revelation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06
Democratic County Meetings.

G. NJ. Brooke, Esq, Chairman of the
Attala County Democratic Executive
Committee has called a meeting on the
10th Of June to "send delegates to the
State Convention at Jackson and to de
termine the mode of nominating candi-
dates for the various county officers and
members of the Legislature"
In the Bulletin a mass meeting of the
Democracy of Newton is called for the
same day "for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the State and Senatorial
Conventions.
The following proceedings were had
in recent meeting of good old Lawrence :
Delegates to State Conventional. w.
Ross, |. A. Hickman. H. l. Bird, j. G. KYLE,
John II. Wood, II. Smith, Major a. Hartzog.
J. j. benson. 5. f. Parkman, w. Armstrong
and Isaac Newton
The following alternates were chosen !:
w. H. Butler F. L. Riley, H. p. Jones r
Longino, G. .. Nelson and G. =. Haynes
The Chair, DR.. s. Teunson, and Seereta-
nv. A. Ii. Longino, Of the convention. and
also A c. Fairman, Chairman Of the coun-
ty Executive Committee, were added to the
list of delegates.
The following resolutions were adopted by
reclamation:
Resolved, That Capt. S. Gwin. by his un-
blemished record as a soldier, his services
as a public officer in the past, his high and
untarniShed character as citizen and his
eminent fitness and qualifications for the
position of Auditor of Public Accounts i'm
pels us to heartily recommend him to the
soon to meet in Jackson, and
to our fellow-citiZens in the State for that
office.
Resolved. That the delegates appointed by
this convention be Instructed to vote for him
and to urge his nomination at the ensuing
State Convention.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06

The Memphis Appeal, quoting the
memorable words-''for the first time are
the american people confronted ,oith the
fact Of a fraudulently elected Pre8ident-
let 1t not be understood that the ..a,.a ,otH
be silently acegiesced IN by the country
LET NO HOUR PASS IN WHICH
THE USURPATION IS FORGOT
TEN-let the AGIIATIONbe unceasinq.
that at every opportunity the people may
express hier adherence Of the outrage-let
aca,lt Of confidence be coted at eoery election
IL. the eOmptry'-calls upon its readers to
that they are the words Of
Harris, Bailey, Thurman, Bayard, La.
mar. Gordon, Hill, and every Democratic
member in Congress.