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hundred millions of loans, to enable them to
and their stockholders. This would create
such panic as the country has never seen.
If we had never adopted tho National
Banking system, it would perhaps be wise to
talk about allowing the Government to sup
ply greenback currency and prohibit banks
Of circulation. But we have the banks; they
are interviewer with the entire business of the
country; farmers, merchants, manufacturers,
men of all conditions in life are indebted to
them. Can these men pay up within three,
six, nine or twelve months? Ii they fail to
do so, will not thousands and tens of thou
sands of others be carried down with them
The report of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency shows that the average profit of these
banks for the last year on the money invested,
does not exceed five per cent. -r --a
The large majority of the stockholders of
these banks are men who would not engage
in private banking-they are men who have
retired from active business and who have
not the Inclination to engage in any pursuit
which would tie them down or require their
personal attention. If compelled to with
draw from the National banks, their capital
would go into bonds and out of the channels
of business. p gaE 4q gfI .24l .-.sY
In addition to the other advantages which
the G overnment derives from these banks it
has from them permanent deposit of twen-
ty five millions, which, at even four per cent.
per annum, is worth to it one million q year.
The account stands thus srs a-a- .f -fU-
The General Government and States -ai5
to the National Banking system DIR.
Taxes TO General Governnlent.....S 7,076,0 ,087
Taxes to State Governments...... 8, ,70l, ,732
Taxes ON 325 millions National - 4 -
Bank notes, estimated. ..........,. 5000, 900
25 millions deposit at 4 per cent. 1,oo0, 900
.ysssI 80 - bsnii9ni tHa s2E -7z e1o
Or. .--'
Interest on bonds held by banks, -s-I
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The Mystery Of the Trade Dollar.

The trade dollar was minted by the govern
ment mint for bringers of bullion, at a charge
to cover the cost. 1t was provided at time
when greenbacks had de,nonetized all coins,
and the government was not coming any for
circulation. The old silver dollar had never
been coined, save at rare intervals, for special
uses. AT the. time the trade dollar was au-
thorized the old silver dollar would have cost
103. 1t had not been known in the circul a
tion for forty years. In 1858 Congress re-
duced the weight Of the coins Of half dollar
and under about Q per cent, so as to keep
them in the circulation. 1t also reduced their
legal tender to So, so as to prevent their
driving out gold. 1t virtually dropped the
silver dollar. The trade dollar was provided
to suit California traders with China As it
was then worth 405 or 106, there was no pos
sibility of its entering into our circulation.
The fall of silver has brought that. Yet, only
a little while ago, q lot of silver maniacs-the
Commercial among; the rest-were abusing
the Secretary for bordering the suspension of
the coinage of trade dollars, and abusing
members of Congress for advocating their ab-
clifton. We see no reason fer ever starting
the trade dollars, nor for the governments 60
ing into that outside business. Perhaps the
silver maniacs will now have sense enough to
haveit abolishsd. .-(Cin. GaZ. @ ,a
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Interest on bonds held by banks, go
estimated ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -. SIS, GOO. 600

= = 1---7-I - ---- 7" 5 7,971,0 ,0Iy
1t may be said that the tax on National
Bank notes should not be accredited to the
National Banking system, but if they were
abolished an non-taxable greenbacks substi-
tuted, the eight millions would be lost to the
revenue.-LO. s. Journal. raiEa. ....rr
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WHILE demagogues are bursting themselves
in the effort to discredit and destroy the Ma
tional banks, we make a few suggestions for
the consideration of thoughtful men. ",''a
Every National Bank note lost, destroyed
by fire or otherwise, is SO much gained by
the Government. ...r - .... d.
The bank note of 1, bloken National Bank
is just as good as the note of solvent one.
The National Banks pay to the General
Government and the States seventeen mill
lions per annum in taxes. Isa .s
The three hundred and twenty-five mil
lion of National Bank notes are taxable and
yield to the States a revenue of eight millions
If you destroy the National Banks, and
substitute taxable greenbacks for Ma
tional Bank notes, you lose twenty five mil
lions of revenue in the effort to save eighteen
millions of interest. More than this, you ex-
empt the money of the country from taxa
tion, and put the burden on real estate and
dutiable goods. More than this, by abolish
ing the banks you compel them to call in nine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

EARLY to bed and early to rise makes
q man healthy, wealthy, and wise; but
early to ryes and tardy to bed makes Q
mans nose turn cardinal red.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

Did you ever laugh at mans laugh
while he thought you were laughing
at thejoke he told you? And did you
ever notice how immeasurably he en-
joyed your appreciation Of the joke. 3
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The Money Question I'm Nut.
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Secretary Sherman stated the reality OF the
SILVER matter in his speech at Toledo in a few
words. All the resolutions for silver and all
the perversions OF history can not get around
these simple conditions-namely: Silver and
gold can be made to circulate together either
by limiting the issue Of silver when the value
of silver coins is less than the value of the
gold coins Of the same denominations, or by
adjusting their weight so that their value
shall be the same. This is all there is of it.
And inasmuch as silver has become very vari.
able in value, so that the effort to readjust SO
as to equalize values would be an incessant
disturbance, the only way we now know TO
have both silver and gold is to restrict the
amount Of silver Likewise he stated the
conditions Of the volume of paper money,
which no legislation can change. With specie
payment on demand, the amount which will
stand in the circulation will be just what will
result from these conditions. Circulation can
not be forced. With specie pay meut the vol
ume of paper will regulate itself, and no law
prescribing the amount can prevent this self
regulation. And we remark that the notion
that paper circulation ought to be forced to
the utmost expansion that the specie basis
can sustain is quite modern idea.-Cin. GaZ.
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Thurman, Hendricks, Saylor, and the
rest are trying to cover up, and which
they dare not squarely meet. 1t Is an
issue which is.ss plainly in this canvass
as if it had been declared by their con-
ventions. 1t Is more than this, for it
is supreme over these Democratic can
didates and plstforms.-Cin. Gazette.
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! MASONIC pIRECrORY, 1877.

u.,,,oD,Iodge No. IF A. N. meets ev.
" Wsdnesday night on or Preceding the fuIi
JAMES B. RYAN.iW. N.
JrssE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
81 olatrsvtlie Chapter. No. II Royal Arcn
.1sons meets lst Friday night each month:
7"'' GEO. p. BUMGARNER, Il. p.
JESSIE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
p.Imont OounciI R and 8. NJ, meets on the
sec,nd tuesday night Of every month :,
q - = N-----T Il. r. BUAGARNER, q. n.
~ I'D. BAILY. Rec. e q III
! ~ .,oue oprnur,ande-y 40. .2s OF knight Temp.
r. ,Reets on the nrst Tuesday night OF every
month. Y. w. N<AANASSNA@' - - -.
81 Eu y. D. BAILEY. hec- '' ID .isH tE1.tE
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Established in 1873
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati &
st. Louis r. r.
PAN HANDLE hOUIE. =
Time Table East and West.

MAY 12, 1873.
Trains leave the PaRdle Depot, foot OF Eley>
enth street, Wheeling. w. Va, near Public
landing, daily except Sunday, Columbus time,
IA follows:
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Sharp County record., 1878-10-31

Spring river, Martins creek,
Strawberry river, Piney Fork,
Big creek, Mil creek and Reeds
creek. Ash Flat, situated near
the waters Of Big creek, in town
ship Is, range 6 west, is a pleas
ant, beautiful village and enjoys
a good trade from the country
surrounding it. 1t has an intel
ligent and energetic population
and bids fair to become a sub
stantial little town.
EVENING SHADE,
The county site Of Sharp, is stu
ated near the Piney Fork Of
Strawberry river, in a very
healthy section Of country, and
is improving perhaps as rapidly
as any similar town in the state.
1t contains four general stores,
one hotel, two blacksmith shops,
a tobacco factory, a saddle and
harness shop, three drug and gro
Gerry stores, a tan yard, four
physicians, three lawyers, one
weekly newspaper, the RECORD;
a matchmaker and one saloon.
In the surburbs are two fine
Touring mills, a woolen factory,
a saw and planning mill and one
Shingle machine. Of societies
there are in town a Masonic
Lodge and Chapter and an Odd
Fellows Lodge. The church or
ganizations are the Baptist,
Methodist and the Cumberland
Presbyterian. The MethodistS
have one Of the best church
houses in North Arkansas. Eve
ming Shade is also the site Of
Evening Shade College, a thor
ough school for males and fe-
males. The Board Of Trustees
say they are determined to build
up here a frst-class college,
where the people of the state
may send their sons and daught-
ers for complete education at
a small cost, and outside of the
allurements Of vice and eXtraya-
giant influences which surround
such institutions in cities and
railroad towns. Evening Shade
is twenty-five miles north Of
Batesyille, the head of naviga-
tion on White river, forty five
miles from Newport, on the St..
Louis, Iron Mountain and South
ern r. R., and about the same
distance from Walnut Ridge,
Lawrence county, on the same
railway.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-31

A new agricultural implement
y an electriclight TO aid farmers
~ harvest their crops at night.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-31
SHARP COUNTY.
HER CLIMATE, SOIL, ADVANTAGES
AND RESOURCES.

AND RESOURCES.
Sharp county was established
by the General Assembly OF
1868, and is bounded on the
north by the state of Missouri,
on the east by Randolph and
Lawrence counties, on the south
by Independence county, and
on the west by lizard and
Fulton counties. Its population
is about nine thousand, Since
the establishment of the county
all of the necessary public
buildings have been erected and
are paid for. The face OF the
country is generally undulating,
though diversified with rich al
luvial bottoms and flat uplandS.
In many places the hills are
lofty enough to be called noun
tains. The arabic lands are suS-
ceptible Of producing large
yields of cotton, corn, wheat,
rye, hay, oats, potatoes, tobacco
and field crops generally, while
vegetables Of nearly every kind
may be produced to great per,
fection, and all fruits adapted
to the climate attain the highest
degree of perfection under prop
er culture. That portion Of the
land which is thought to be un-
| fit for cultivation, on account OF
the stones which lie principally
upon it's surface, produces, each
year, a luXuriant crop Of wild
grass upon which large numbers
of cattle thrive and fatten dur
ing the summer months, and
which, in many places, could be
proftably saved as hay. On ac-
count of the splendid range the
barrens afford, and their adapt
ability to the production Of the
tame grasses, stock raising and
sheep husbandry could be pur-
sued very protitably, especially
so on the lands last mentioned,
a large portion Of which can be
had under the i. S. Homestead
law for almost the asking.
While on this subject we may
add that we are informed by a
gentleman engaged to some eN-
tent in the wool business, that
the wool from our common grade
Of sheep brings almost as good
a price in the market as that
produced on lands costing fifty
dollars per acre and upwards,
and where the sheep must be
fed daily. 1t therefore seems
that North Arkansas offers in
ducements to the wool producer,
superior to any other country.
Sharp county is well timbered,
excepting in the barrens. Sur
rounding Evening Shade is a
large scope Of country covered
by yellow pine, which is cut by
the saw mills in the vicinity In
to excellent building lumber.
| Health in this country is very
good indeed. We will venture
to say that no country in the en-
tire southwest surpasses it fol
healthfulness--the malarial and
bilious diseases so prevalent in
a large scope of the west being
very rare here, except in very
mild form in the densely wood
ed bottoms.
Scarcely a neighborhood in
the entire county is without its
church house, which is generally
used by each denomination, and
a great interest is manifested in
the cause of education. More
schools are sustained in the
county at present than ever be-
fore, and some Of a high order
Among these may be mentioned
the Evening Shade College, To-
Gated at the county seat, and the
Ash Flat Academy, twelve miles
north of this place.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-31
CIRCUIT COURT PROCEED
INGS.
October Term, 1878.
EQUITY DOCKET.

terest of heirs; arbitration by
agreement.
w G Jones, admr E Jones est,
vs. E T Jones, motion to have
cost retaXed; continued.
E Jones VS. 7 Y Huddleston,
sheriff, motion to compel him to
turn over money; continued.
Delilah Jones VS. W Q Jones,
admr E Jones est, motion to
uuash execution; continued.
w C Jones, admr E Jones est,
vs. T Y Huddleston, sheriff, mo-
ton for order on sheriff for
money collected on execution;
continued.
JG Sims, guardn heirs of D
Williams, VS. D Spurlock, admr
Jno Spurlock, complt in equity;
continued.
Allen Free VS. W 7 Atkinson,
vendors lien; dismissed.
David Daniels VS. Lewis Kelly,
vendors lien; continued.
Jacob Schales ct al, petition
ex parte, complaint in equity;
continued.
JIM Thornton VS. Malissa }
Smith. complaint in equity; con-
tinued.
TJ Gay, admr, VS. 7 Y Hud-
dleston, complaint in equity;
continued.
A II Vance, admr, VS. J W
Shaver and w G Matheny, com
plant in equity; final decree.
Henry Schupp VS. J K McGee
and j s Bonham, complaint IN
equity; continued.
Elizabeth Erwin VS. s H Erwin,
admr, ct al, complaint in equity;
Judgment of S92 for plaintiff:
j S Phillips and wife VS. W I
Darnell, admr, ct al, complaint
in equity; dismissed.
P M Shannon, admr W X
Shannon, VS. 7 B Gay, admr R
Mormon, complaint in equity;
continued.
JIM McCord VS. Daniel Duncan,
complaint in equity; continued.
J A Hamilton, admr A X Met
calf, VS. A K, A NJ and W W
Metcalf, complaint in equity:
continued.
r Wagner VS. Jas and NJ (
Butts, j NJ Darlington and } N
Boothe, complaint in equity:
continued.
Mollie Galloway ct al, petition
ex parte, complaint In equity;
continued.
N Calhoun VS. J T Baker and
Jas Johnson, comprt in equity;
continued.
VIM A Wiles, ct al, VS. VIM
Vickers, ct al, compEt in equity;
final decree.
Jas P Jones VS. G A Smith, D
Lacewell, A G Higgenbottom,
w B Ratcliffe, ct al, complaint
in equity; dismissed.
N Calhoun VS. A Welsh, com
plaint in equity; continued.
Mary SPOTS, ct al, VS. JAS
Mcknight, petition for partition;
continued.
A Parsley VS. Martha Hopkins,
ct al, complaint in equity; final
decree.
w 7 Cunningham, ct al, VS.
r D Williams, ct al, complaint
in equity; continued:
III Richie, admr Dan Griffith
est, VS. D G Spurlock, complaint
in equity; decree.
j K ? McGee VS. Eliza S
McGee, complaint in equity;
continued.
VIM Sanders vs. A D Wade,
complaint in equity; continued.
Elizabet Bryant VS. Jas Bry-
ant, complaint in equity; decree.
R Wagner vs. G w Elkins,
j NJ Darlington and j Boothe,
complaint in equity; continued.
Dan Griffith VS. P 0 Porter
and w G Porter, complaint In
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-03-06
EASTERN STATES.

CHICAGO, March 4.--The Journals
Washington special says: Democrats
in the House propose to call attention
of the House to-day to the fact of
General Anderson's retention as deputy
United States collector at New Orleans
Notwithstanding his conviction and SEN
teRce. The object is to make political
capital against the administration, and
they claim Anderson's retention is an
indirect and open violation Of existing
laws, and that the President, and Sec
retary Sherman are censurable for not
suspending Anderson from Office as soon
as he was convicted. The Treasury
department has information that Gem
eral Anderson's imprisonment thus far
is nominal only, and he is permitted to
60 to the Custom House daily and sign
papers in his official capacity. So far
as known no steps have been taken to
remove Anderson.
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Tcherkesski, to whom was entrusted
the administrative organization OF Bull
garia, died at San Stefano.
CoxsrASTINoPLE, March 4-Previ'
GUS to the signing of the treaty, Gen.
Ighatieff demanded that Turkey should
unite with Russia in defending all its
stirulst;ops before the conference. SAT-
vet Pasha refused. Gen. Ignatief then
telegraphed to st. Petersburg for in
structiors. It is not known how the
question was settled. Russia agreed
not to include Salouics in Bulgaria. 1t
includes Bosrogos, Varna and kus-
ytendji. The money indemnity of fort
million pounds originally claimed in
addition to territorial ccssion was final.
ly fixed at twelve millions.
LONDON, March "A Pera cores.
pendent writes: By giving up the
hostile European provinces at the same
time receiving tribute from them OF
saddling them with portion of the
national debt, and concentrating Mus
sulmans in the territory contiguous and
making the concentration required by
territorial concession in Asia Minor, the
Turks will create q new Ottoman power
ten times stronger than when 1t wa.
spread over q vast, badly organized and
hostile territory.
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SAN FRANCisCo STATISTICS lang.
ley's Directory for 1889 estimates the
population of San Francisco, February
let. 1878, at 30s.2l5 gam of only
1895. or 2 $40 per cent in the year.
The nnmbsr of Chinese in the city ia
given at $4,000, and the number in
California estimated at 90. 900 total in
the United States, $4,000. Twelve
hundred and fifty new buildings were
built in 1877, costing $4,000, 900. The
present number of buildings in the city
is %. 100, of which 4,430 are brick and
the gain sine" 1870 is nearly 5000
buildings. There are SO public schools,
employing 632 teachers, of when Go
are men and 500 women. The number
of children under sixteen years of age
Is SOFAS. Tho expenditures for educa.
,ion last year were 1892 900. The value
of the city school property is 81, js5. 900,
and the school tax is little over two
mills On the dollar.
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. CORRESPONDENT, writing

A CORRESPONDENT. writing to The
Historian. from Walls Wslla, urging
agitation for the improvement Of the
navigation Of the Columbia river. has
this to say:
Careful estimates give the products
to be shipped from Walls Walls county
to the ssaboard at 100000 bushels of
wheat at SIC per ton, the actual cost OF
last years crop from here to the sea-
board O distance of less than 800 miles
will amount to S2,600000, and say for
back freights sl,20O,000. or $50 per
ton. and we have q corporation ready
To do $36o0,000 worth OF work. that
can be done proftably for the same
distance on the Mississippi river for
81 100000 or less, and who is to pay
this additional sum? We and why
do we pay this additional sum of about
two and one-half million dollarsI
Give us your efforts for this mutual
benefit. and if you are not duly sppre.
ciated, stop back into the ranks of pub
lie benefactors, and l.. that ell curing
solver time point out true merit and
hide any mark of divergence from the
rut of common sentiment.
Keep a steady helm on your pilotage
system down there avoid if possible
any disaster TO the shipping, for any
event that will add two pounds ster-
ling TO the rate Of charter for wheat.
will deduct soc per bushel from the
price of wheat to the producer
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our journey II was overgrOwp, and in
many parts difficult to trace.
The general course of the journey
follows the Nisqually River. which
beads in glacier on the southwest
ern side of the mountain, the same that
was examined by Lieutenant, now
General A. V. Kautz, as mentioned in
the first article. Genearl Stevens in
formed me that they did not meet with
any special difficulties on their route for
about the first FIVE miles, or two-thirds
of the way, being gentle slope. But
the latter portion is steep. They were
just 10s hours in making the assent.
during all which time. being in excel
lent training; they worked hard, and
were not obliged TO retraoe q single
step.
Mount ST. Helens was named by
Vancouver after His Britannia Males
tvs Ambassador to the Court of Mad
rid. Commadore Wilkes, L. s. n. esti.
mated it to be $3.50 feet above the
level Of the sea. and says it may be
seen from the sea when eighty miles
distant. 1t is the only instance of the
dome-shaped foundation on the coast.
Its smooth. and spherical form; uudis-
figured by focks or scars, captivates the
eve. Humbolt's notice of il has been
given in the first article on this subject,
when treating Of the volcanic activity
of these mountains.
Mount Adams is nearly due east OF
Mount st. Helens. 1t was named
after John Quincy Adams. Little or
nothing is known respecting this
mountain. I believe it has never been
assembled. Professor Whitney, in the
paper before quoted, states that Mount
Adams, the next high point north OF
Mount Hood, was measured by Doctor
vansant, L. 8. a.. trigonometrically at
1928 feet. DR.. Brown sets down this
mountain at about 5000 feet"
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Observation-Disclosures, of Colora-
do, has introduced bill to provide for
the election Of Territorial Governor,
Secretary and other Territorial officers
in tho several Territories of the United
States. Riddle introduced q bill to
prohibit the organization of National
Banking Associations under existing
laws. and the reclarter of those now in
operation. Both were referred to the
committee on Territories and on Banks
and Banking, respectively.
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country presents the appearance of
continuous sea On both sides of the riv-
er. Not FIVE thousand acres of land
along the river for the entire distance
have escaped the food. The river is
now falling rapidly. and vast tracts of
wheat land are making their appear
ance. much of which may be saved if
drying north winds follow the recent
continued storm. Between Sacramento
and Monroeville there are about $50
breaks in the levees. DR.. Glenn, an
extensive farmer in Colusa county. lost
twenty thousand head Of sheep and six
thousand acres of wheat by the food
The main wheat lsnds Of Colus. coun-
" are FIVE miles from the river and are
safe. About twenty per cent. of the
wheat crop of that county is ruined and
the same amount damaged. The loss
between Sacramento and Monroeville
in levees, buildings, stock and crops
will reach $500. 900 besides the decrease
in the value Of property. In some To-
calities there is, however, a prospect of
an enormous harvest, and much sedi-
ment has been deposited which will re-
, new the land. The food has caused
comparatively few cases of personal
suffering and want.
SAN JOSE. March A house near
the narrow gauge railroad depot, occu-
pied by man named Crowley, burned
this morning. All the inmates escaped.
But Crowley, thinking his son was in
the burning building, rushed into the
flames and was fatally burned. His
wife was seriously burned in attempt
ing to aid him.