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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30
Temptation.

We have had a great deal to say
to our young friends about tcmptn'
ton, because in youth a persons
susceptibilities are greater than ut
any other time of life. There IL
much to DC said besides telling y
person what he should avoid, or adj
inonishing him TO shun this or that.
The best way to avoid thing ts to
cultivate something antagonistic to
il; i'm fact. if one does not do this,
his chances for successfully carrying
ont his resolves are only half what
they might be. II person can &C
ouirc a relish for good, wholesome,
improving society. he will be in less
danger than If he simply Stunned
bad company. and the same may he
said of a good many other things
Among the greatest pr"i"''."'
agencies is taste for rca4''-, Co.,.
seldom sees person OF s'' '''''
In the ranks Of the fast you, ""'
who are getting in their ci"' ~
wild oats. There ia nothing p 1" p
cheaper than such a taste; indeed,
il ia wonderful how cheap are AL
kinds of culture compared with the
different sorts OF dissipation.
A young msu who has business {!
study aud whose livelyhOod and
hope Of advancement IN the world
depends altogether on his own ex
ertions, win have brief time to DE
vote to other things, bat such tint
may be filled up, and BY cuitivafinf
a tsste for that which is improving
. and elevating, in Whist ever depart
ment it may he, any inclination il
an opposite direction is edectuail!
. dess royed.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30
Tensas Disturbances Settled.

Especial to tho Shreveport Eve. Standard
vIDALIA, LA, VIA NArcHEz'
Miss, Oct. 17.-Usturbances ia
Tensas are settled. The colorcd
people returned to their homes on
plantations. State troops from sur
rounding parishes are en- route for
home. Meyer, Weis & Co.'S gins.
with seventy Ave bales OF cotton,
burned. Fairfax has gone to parts
unknown. asual'ies--killed and
wounded three or four.
(Signed) q. YORK.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18.-the fol
lowing account Of the tronbles IN
Tensas parish appears in to-days
Democrat: On Monday last negroes
in large numbers passed through
Waterproof on their way to IL mass
meeting some miles above the town,
and in passing through some Of them
were very insulting and very threat
ening in their language. The citi.
zens of Waterproof, doubtless, had
good cause for apprehensions, aud a
messenger was sent to this city ask
ing for aid to save the lives and the
honor of the women and the proper
ty of the town. a meeting at once
assembled at the Armory Of the
Light Infantry, and. under the al
vice Of the most prudent men in the
community, a company OF person.
IN the number of abOut one hundred
volunteered to 60 tn Waterproof ant
learn the true state Of affairs, pre-
pared. if necessary. TO protect live'
and property. The steam ferry boa
was procured and the party LEFT
about l2 o'clock aud reached Lar
gent landing about day break. Herr
cannon was fired To annonce theil
approach to the people of Water
proof, some three miles distant
Several persons from the store cath'
to the boat aud the pleasing informa
ton was obtained that there WI
probably 40 need for armed assis
lance. To thoroughly satisfy them
selves. however, the party pr'Geede'
! 10 Waterproof with their boa
! where they were met by the author
T. tiles of tue town and the intorInntio
received AT Sargent was confirmed
' AT the urgent invitation ut the pee
T pie %. the town he party went ashor
= and were entertained during IA pc
e ton Of the day and returned Ia:
u night about IL o'clock. Three pr
r sous were wounded in the house I
5. Fairfax on Saturday last, when Ca
y tain Peck was fired upon aud kille'
K two OF whom are thought to be mo
I tally wounded. There is no ey
dence that any conflict had occu
y red other than the one which toe
Ia place at Fairfax's house.
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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30

Mr.. r. E. Conner and Gen. VIM.
T. Martin are gentlemen too well
known in Mississippi and Louisiana
to need my endorsement. Most :"
the facts certified by them sre true
to my personal knowledge.
Judge Labelling ia a hwyer oi
more than ordinary ability. Unless
he is carrying on the canvass
against Gen. King under the motto
that ..all il fair in politics. he VIII
on learning the facts. give MP IN
efforts to crpate the impression tha'
Gen. King il not n res,drnt Of Con
cord;a. %. MAYO.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30

II il stated rs a significant fact
in the experience Of prison. keepers,
that white wives cOnst anuy visit
and condole with their husbands,
when imprisoned, husbands seldom
or never visit their erring wives in
prison, but almost Invariably. desert
them in their trouble. And yet
how many of these poor women have
suffered brutally at the hands. OIL
their criminal husbands.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30
DIR. :. r. RICHARDSON,

IIAvISC resumed tho practice ct aeal-
cine offers his services to the citizens
or Claiborne parish, in the various eranc heS
OF his profession. ,,,,,
once 1t the Drug Store Of Joe shelton
Aug. -, is77. 'S
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30
LYMRER AND GRlsT MILL

w., Raed D. G. Tut
., 6. TUT 4 CO.,
TInUR. Proyhioa and Grain Dealers,
L AID Wholesale Groocrs, >.
Msuufacturcrs' Agents for Nrst,ss Tssseas,
aud Agsuts for the STINSBCRr COTTON
WILLS, Of CArrollton, Miss,
S84 North Main Street, st. LOUIS.
July 10, 1878. s''oni
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30

l concur in the above statement.
Having been qnite intimate with
Gen. King since 1865, l know he
has since that time claimed citizen
shin in COncordia parish, aud exer
cised the privileges and performed
the duties incident to that position.
l know he has uniformly declined to
become a citizen of Mississippi, and
that he ia the owner of property I'D
Louisiana, and is planting in Con
cordia and Madison parishes on his
own account and planted last year
in the former parish. My relations
with him have been intimate.
Years respectfully.
WILL. T. MARTIN.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30

The Republican press have made
haste to consign Senator Thurman
to a political grave on the strength
of the Ohio election. Ono wOuld
suppose that the Democratic party
was dead in Ohio, judging by tho
exultation of the Republicans who
carried the State BY only 3OO0, with
vote Of about SIC, 90. A few
more such victories in States claim
ed as the strOnghOlds Of RePo0ii.
canism, and the party Will noe nave
to rejoice over the downfall o. De-
mocracy and shed crocodi'e tear
| over the blishted hopes Of Thurman.
-Shrereporf TfSss. :.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30

There is one thing about IL; the
wretch who never has a "old don't
know anything about the exquisite
Measure of sneeziug.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-30
The Oomycil Of General King.
NATCHEz, October 5, 1878.


Judge o. Mayo, Vidalia: Dear
Sir-Your communication of tho
81 inst, addressed TO Gen. Martin
or myself, stating that certain par
ties are attempting to create the
impression that Gen. King is not
resident of Concortlia parish, La,
and requesting u statement OF facts
from us, is at hand. will state
that i'm the winter Of 1865. or spring
of 1866. Gen. King came to Natchez
and assumed control Of certain
plantations in Concordia parish, IA
the representative Of Hoyl, Spro-
gen 4 Co, of New York. That in
the fall of lSu6 his connection with
said firm WAS dissolved, the said
! firm having abandoned the pro
iected enterprise Of planting III ION.
cordi,. THAI il the Spring OF 1867
,irH. Ki.g wos c'1nlo,cd by Leu
ucl T.. Curi,,h. To assist him IN 'iic
management Oi Is WI "S'itr and
that of Others IL Du""rria; that he
ucupird thus jos ia - .>.>'Hn' 10
! SAll bllHDl uutb Az ''''' ~ ''''
when the said Gonna. Ah3hd"ur"
planting operations IN tnhrnrilla
parish. That very soon after, hr
was emplnyed u, thu banking firm
of Briiiun 4 kunnt7 ~ take active
control of their larg" planting III
terest in said parish aud III other
portions of the State; that | have
been informed ny creditahle per
sons that Gen. King, in his en-
cayements with Britton 4 koontz
always retained a share of the pro
Ats made from their crops on the
, different plantations which he sn
trrviscd; that his connection with
said firm was severed about two
wears ago by the death Of Mr.
= Koontz and the abandonment o
the several points of planting oper
ations. That last year Gen. kln'
rented a large plantation in Con
cortlia parish and worked it in con
, nection with % partner; that TIM
wear he rented Pittstiela plantation
i'm said parish; also n plantation II
Madison parish, which he has cult
waited during the year; that on bot
!, the last mentioned places he own
stock, cattle and farming nipple
. ments.
l. I certify that since Gen XII"
came to this section Of the countr
he has always claimed Concortil
parish as his residence, has Away
voted there, and has repeated
, urged me to claim said parish "a m
Il residence. Gen. King has no res
dcnce on this side Of the river; b
spends most of his time in CONGO
dia, and has never, to my know
IT, edge. expressed determination
desire to change his residence.
Yours truly, II. +. CONNER.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

GEN. AN RsoN is quoted as saying at
Biddeford that the system of financial legisla.
tion by Republicans (by which he must mean
the resumption of specie payments and the
introduction of coin into circulation) makes
the rich man richer and the poor man poorer.
There he differs with another Democrat of
some repute in his day, Thomas Fl. Benton,
who emphatically declared that paper money
"tends 10 aggravate the inequality of fortunes; !;
to make the rich richer and the poor poorer,
to multiply nabobs and paupers, and to deep
en- and widen the gulf which separated Dives
from Lazarus" This inequality Gen. An
derson pretends to deprecate, but he counsels
a return to the very condition of affairs that
produced it, He thinks more paper money
means more wealth, and therein differs with
another Democrat, Thomas Jefferson, whose
opinions have heretofore been held of some re-
pute and who said: "Capital may be produced
by industry and accumulated by economy, but
only jugglers will propose to create it by leger-
demain tricks with paper" He differs also
with still another Democrat, the chief magis-
trate who appointed him Surveyor of this
Port, James Buchanan. Mr.. Buchanan said
that irredeemable paper money ''converts the
business Of society into mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, as come it must, it
casts laborers out Unemployment, ,crushes man.
ufacturers and merchants and ruins thousands
of honest, industrious citizens" Surely Gen.
Anderson has wandered far aWay from the
faith of the fathers. But perhaps he knows
more about finance than Jefferson and Ben
ton did
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03
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The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

"Ihe Uery man OF all others ,pho has the
deepest interest in sound currency, and
acho suffers most by naischieuous legislation in
money matters, is the man aoho earns his dai-
ly bread By his daily toll. 4 deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling between morning and noon, and fal.
ling still louer betaoeen noon and night, these
things constitute the oery harvest time Of spec
ulators, and Of the sohole race Of those aoho are
at once idle and crafty. a disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
euils. Nandermines the uirtues necessary for
the support of the social system, and encour-
ages propensities destructive to its hnppixess.
1t acars against industry, trugelity and econ
omy, and 1t fosters the euil spirits Of ertrav-
dgance and speculation. Of all the contri-
dances for cheating the laboring classes Of
mankind, none has been more efectual than
that achich deludes them with paper money.
This is the most efectual Of inoentions to fer
tilize the rich mans fields By the s,ueat of the
poor mans bro,o. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessice taration, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared ,oith
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
matted By deprecated paper."-Ddniel
Webster
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

THE Greenbackers have been abusing Sec
retary Sherman because he did not put silver
dollars into circulation. Now, down in the
Second District Solon Chase's convention
condemns him because he is putting them
into circulation, and says that he is paying
out silver dollars to the laborer and gold dol
lars to the bondholder. Well, if silver is as
good as gold, as the Greenbackers affitm,
what is the harm? 1t is the first article of
the National creed that the Government
stamp and the legaltender quality give the
value. The silver dollar has both. Why
then is it not as good as gold? And if as
good why this comp laints The Greenback-
ers are strangely inconsistent.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03
[Harper's Bazar.l
"Artistic" Dressing In London,
I'm What il Consists Necessity for Certain
Costumes in Particular Drawing Rooms
Design of William Morris, Worn by
the Wife of a Famous Artist, etc., etc.

"Artistic" dressing is nowhere better under
cans the term Is received, think, in its gem
eral sense; but it has very special significance
in England, referring to the style of costumes
introduced four or five years ago in the world
of artists and thence influencing even the
grandes danes of fashion.
In what, it may be asked, does "artistic''
dress consist? In a general way, let it be un-
derstood, anything which is graceful, pictur-
esque, classical and quaint, regardless Of the
accepted standards of fashion. 1t matters not
what century serves as model, what nation
provides color, texture, or design. Art and
originality form the key notes, and casting
asdei conventionality. the artistic dress
maker consults the form, complexion and genre
OF her customer, giving Greek tunics or Eliza
bethan rusfs to tall or willowy figures, and cas-
scal drapsry, close outlines and severe lines to
stout forms.
So generally recognized and appreciated Is
this mode of dress that several leading modistes
in London announce their capability for "artis-
tic'' dressing. "Do you want only fashion
able dressmaker," said London lady to an
American frieud who applied for counsel, cor
an artistic one? Miss L. is very clever
artistic dressmaker. She made Miss H-'s
green serge with peacock.plume trimmings and
white cachemire slashings."
More than this, there are several domineer-
ing households where it is considered unpar-
donable for woman to attend any special af-
fair in other than au "artistic" costume which
will in some degree harmonize with'the mede.
val, Oriental, or Queen Anne furnishings and
effects" and at one house which we have
specially in mind a recent "Conversazione'
gave the impression to our uninitiated eyes Of q
fancy-dress ball. A pretty young woman in
pale green cachemire wrought with tall yellow
flowers, and having a scarf drapery from her
shoulders, preceded us up the stairs; and the
hostess wore genuine Marie Stuart costume.
pearls, ruff. and all, with the solitary nine
teenth-century adjuncts of high embroidered
mitts; but then clever antiquarian near by
remarked that "lacs gloves" we're introduced
under the reign of Qaeen Bsss, and those on
madame's slim hands were faded in hue and
filmy as if they might have belonged to the lux
urious sovereign. There was a young woman
in cell satin, with cloth-of-gold petticoat and
filleted hair, who wore pair OF slippers in
which Qaeen Anne is said to have danced at
Bath, and the dainty little lady stepped about
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

THING NEEDFUL I'm OUR PRESENT
CONDITION, AND WILL CURE Us OF
MANY FINANCIALILL The moment
you have got specie Payments, PendIeton's
and Buffers theory of paying the bonds i'm
sreen5acks, which mems neither more or
less than more aud meaner money, be-
comes obsolete. If Congress i'm it's blum
derings, did mot agree 10 pay the principal
of the bonds in gold, it ought to have
agreed TO, and specie payments Will make
the agreement what it ought to be. The wit
ofman cannot devise any scheme that will
bring absut specie payments other than re-
deeming greenbacks with gold; that is, let
somebody else have some good money be-
sides the b0ndI dIsIders.-SOLON CHASE'S
"POOR MANS TRACT" OF 1871.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03
Fifth District Convention.

The Republicans of the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict are requested to send delegates to Congress
sional Convention to be held at Belfast, on TUES
DAY, August 9th. 1873, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. to
nominate candidate for Representative to Congress.
and attend to any other business that may come
before the convention.
Basis,-each city, town plantation is entitled to
one delegate and additional delegate for every
seventy-ive votes given for the Republican candi-
date for Governor in 1876 and additional dele
gate for fraction Of forty votes so cast.
JAMES A. MILLIKEN,
A. ID. BEAN,
ORREN LEARNED,
A. M. HOPKINS,
JAMES M. BLAISDELL,
DAVIS TILSON,
Congressional Committee
July 4, 1878.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

As a very important source of strength
and security. cherish public credit. One
method of preserving il is to nse it as
sparingly ns possible; avoiding occasions
Of expense by cultivatinR peace, but re.
membering also that timely disbursements
to prepare for danger frequently prevent
much greater disbnrsements TO repel il !:
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt. mot only by shunning occasions of
expense, buf by vigorous exertions in time
of peace 10 discharge the debts which un-
avoidable wars may have occasioned, NOT
unKenerousIy throwing upon posterity the
burden which we ourselves ought TO bear.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

1.-THE loss aohich america has sustained, since
the peace, from the pestilential effects of IRE
deen,able paper money, on the necessary conf
dence between men, on the necessary confidence in
hepublic councils on the industry and morals of
the people and on the character of republican qoy-
ernnaent, constitute an enormous debt against the
States charyeable aoih this ar,aaduased measure,
uhach ma remain unsotisfed, or rather it is an
accumulation fguih aohich can be eapiated no
otheraoise than By a voluntary sacrifice on the al
ar ofjustice of the pooer which has been the in
str,snaent cfit-Jd1nes Madison
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03
COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republicans of the several towns in the Coun-
ty of Cumberland are requested to send delegates to
the County Convention to be held at Reception Hall,
City Building, Portland, THURSDAY, Aug 8, 1878,
at 10 o'clock M, to nominate candidates for Four
Senators, Sheriff, County Treasurer, one County
Commissioner and Clerk of Courts, to be supported
at the State election in September next.
Also to choose County Committee for
the year 1879. The basis of representation
will be as follows: Each city and town to one
delegate and for each fifty votes cast tor Selden
Connor, for Govonor in 1877, fraction of thirty
votes will be entitled to an additional delegate,
Under this apportionment each city and town will
ne entitled to the following number of delegates.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

Mr.. M. G. Dow awoke Monday morning
to find himself famous. His picturesque de-
scription of banker as ga man who has a
rusty gold dollar in the back of his head and
whose eyes are like toad's in the night"
has already reached wide circulation. The
papers that copy it are not always COM
plimentary to Mr.. Dow, to be sure, but
what should he care as long as his name is
heard of men?
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

A DEMOCRAT who donned the skin of a
frog and became Greenbacker, was rallied
at by Young Lion Ia blood relation) because
be had proved to be the smallest frog in the
puddle. The Greenskinned Monstrosity,
whose feelings were too deep for utterance,
Immediately dove into the water. The next
day he heard from Biddeford and hopping up
on to the end of railroad sleeper waited
for certain train and when it passed he
grinned satanic grin and croaked an un.
earthly croak.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03
sOLON CHASE ON SPECIE PAY
MENTS.

with this sum specie payments can be
resumed ut once, and the premise that is
written ON the face of the greenback TO pay
the dollar, made good. This would give
Blll good dollar for his work, and the
wounded veteran good money for his PEN
sion, which is only justice nnd fair play TO
bill and the veteran; that is, Bill not only
would work for gold wages ms he
does now, but would buy his goods
nf cold prices, and thereby save
another large item of the S25434 that
is pressed out of him annually
SPECIE PAYMENTS IS THE ONE
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

"Capital may be produced by Industry and
accumulated by economy, but only jugglers
will propose to create it by legerdeman tricks
with paper" ."-Thomas Jefferson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03
JAMES BUCHANAN.

"Such medium lirredeemable paper mon
ey,) has always been liable to fuctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
Gus speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and man."-Chief Justice Mar.
ebnU
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

lrredcemRble paper money '.converis the
business of society into a mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, as come ii must,
it casts laborers out of employment. crush
es manufacturers and merchants and
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
citizens"
IANEER RUNUB NAN
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-03

The County Committee will be in session at re
ception Hall at O'Clock the morning of the con-
vention, for the reception Of credentials
SAMUEL DINGLEY, Chairman.
I.S.WEBB,
r. G. SCRIBNER,
w. f. LOVEJOY,
HI. G. BREWER,
c. E, BOOOY,
G. M. SEIDERS.
G. r. GARDEN,
l.. G. NELSON, Secretary.
Republican County Committee.