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The state journal., 1878-01-11
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Organized for the Fray.

The Murphy men of the city met and organ
lied Saturday as follows:
JAMES L. Minor, Pre- sdent.
w. G. Boon,
DR.. j. A. Eagan, .t.,... ...
2. T. Miller, ,1ttn1f.t .... ...#
J.S. Bo,sford. Vice Presidents, and with the
President, an executive comuiittee for the Sc.
lection OF speakers, etc., aud the transaction
of such business as' may be necessary for the
work Of the organization. l,N t.l
The Secretaries of the organization are:
Tennie Mathews. Secretary.
Frapk M. Dixon, Assistant Secretary.
The first meeting under the organization was
held Saturday night.
The organization will continue as at present
effected for three months.
Next Saturday nights Meeting of Prayer.
under the order of the Evangelical Alliance.
will be devoted to the promotion Of the work
Of the Murphy Mems Organization.
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Small Bonds for the Poor.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.-One proposed
amendment OF the funding act, which will
receive the unanimous support of all adj
vocates OF honest currency, and friends Of
the public credit In Congress. will be that
portion in regard to issuing per cent.
bonds in small denominations, say of $40
and $25. .5. ....... ....... m
The arguments in favor of the issue of
bonds OF small denominations will suggest
themselves to any one who has watched
the current of public opinion during the
past few months. There are no subjects
in which public interest can be aroused so
easily as those which affect the individual
pockets OF the people. Thoughtless peo-
pie care little for the public credit, because,
although they may accept the theory that
injury OF it may cause general loss. they
never actually discover when or where
their share of it is contributed. If these
same people depended upon the mainten-
ance OF the public credit isr part of their
income, no matter how small it might be-.
they could at once become conservative
on all financial questions. and would be as
earnestly opposed to any legislation cal
cu!ated to impair the puolic credit as the
millIonaires. In no way could the farm.
ers and mechanics OF the country be more
thoroughly educated in sound financial
ideas than by inducing them generally to
acquire a personal financial interest in the
securities of the Government. s.al
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The Greenback -Lsbor party OF Pennsyl-
vania gives its political creed as follows
FIRST. Tho abolshmeat of all bank
paper issues,
Second. The issue of gold. silver and
government legal tender money without
other limitation than the requirements and
wants of trade and business.
Third. Equal and just taxation of the
property OF the bondholder with that OF
all others.
Fourth. The protection OF the profits
of labor against the extortions of the
usurer by such supply of money and in
terconv' IT J. bonds us well compe
through The laws OF trade. a low rate of
interest
Filth. Protection in its broadest and
most comprehensive sense to AL the in
terests aud for all the purposes that I
have already attempted to enumerate.
Sixth. The assertion and the inforce-
ment of the doctrine and principle at the
right of eminent domain (always an in
alienable right in goyernmeat). SO that
the people, the producers. may be forever
protected against the despotisms OF tran
srortatioa and other monopolies.
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ARLEY, CALIFORNIA; NEW SEN
ATOR.

He is man of large and rather heavy
frame, whose dark hair and full beard are
sprinkled with silver, but whose eve
looks keenly from under its shaggy brow,
evidence that while years have lett their
clear and active as in youth. Mr.. Farley
inpresses one with an idea of reserve,
and although his manner is cordial still
it does not lead one to attempt familiari-
tv; in other words, he is cool, self-pos-
sessed and too we'll accustomed to the
ways OF the world to he caught by petty
fattery.' ""
His political views are summarized as
follows. 'Ot the Texas Pacific Railroad l
have only to say. and l say it frankly and
truthiullv, that am absolutely opposed
to the Government paying a subsidy to
that or any other railroad, am perfect
ly willing, and am glad to see Tom Scott
and other capitalists build railroads in
any part of the United States, so long as
they build with their own money, but l
am not willing to see the Government
lend them its aid or credit. My ideas
upon the vexed silver question would re-
quire more time than can give you, and
more space than you would print, so l
will only say that believe silver dol
lar should be dollar in fact as we'll as
name, and that. il elected, l shall strive
to bring about that result. The financial
question has racked the brains of our
ablest statesman, and don't claim to
fully understand it, but, after carefully
studying 1t, agree with the ideas ex-
pressed by Mr.. Tilden in his letter ac-
cepting the Presidential nomination. as
do also upon the question OF resumption.
do net think that the present genera
tion should be heavily loaded with taxa
tion to l,qnidate u public debt. in the pay
Cent OF which our successors ought GER
minly to be equally interested with our
talves. lam opposed to anything that ap-
seoaches reputation San Francisco
rail-. tni6 n.l--5,fnn ...s.sf
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This Company is purely mutual, not having
only members of the Corporation. 1t is there
fore in effect, a simple partnership of persons
for insuring each others lives. There being
no stock, there can be no sale Of the Company
from one set of owners and managers to anoth-
er; but its affairs remain perpetually in the
entire control of the members themselves, to
elect board of twelve directors each year,
This board meets weekly, and directly super
vises all the business of the Company.
The Company issues whole life policies with
either annual premiums tor life, which 1t
prefers and recommends, or with a limited
term endowments. Experience has shown
that these are the most advantageous forms of
policies, both to the individual and to the
Company. We shall, therefore, restrict our
elves to them.
The surplus earned in anv year is returned to
the following year, only by reduction of pre-
MUM, thus limiting the payments to the actual
current cost ofthe insurance.
In thirty years, this association of men,
united in interests and purposes, as a single
feature in its history, has paid to the represen-
tatves of seven thousand five hundred and
OF twenty five millions one hundred and twen-
ty nine thousand five hundred and thirty.six
dollars-$25, ,l29 .00-as folIows
Claims Paid in each Year from Organiza-
-. ~
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BOGARDUS' WONDERFUL FEAT.

NEW YORK. January 3.-Captain A. Bogar-
dus to-day accomplished the feat of breaking
5000 glass balls inside of 500 consecutive min
utes. with 10 minutes and 25 seconds to spare.
He broke 800 balls in SO minutes and 40 Sec
onds, 900 in 64 minutes and 40 seconds, 1000
in 137 minutes and 10 seconds, 5000 in 203
minutes and is seconds, 1000 in 2SS minutes
and 80 seconds and 5000 in 4s0 minutes and So
seconds. He broke hundred balls in min
utes and % seconds. another hundred in 5
minutes and 35 seconds and another in 5 min
utes and SO seconds.
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He came Back.

Governor Duval, of Florida. was the
son of poor Vrginian, a stern. strong,
taciturn man. The boy was huge youth
OF 15 At the cabin fire. at bed time,
according to the custom OF putting on a
back log, the old man said, between the
whffs of his silent pipe.
Tab, 60 out and bring in that gum
back log, and put it on the fire.
Tab went out and surveyed the log.
He knew it was of no use explaining that
it was too heavy, nor prudent for him to
return without having it on his shoulder.
His little sister. passing, was not sur
prised that he requested her to bring out
the gun and powder horn. as 'possum
or coon might have passed, or the brother
might have seen bear sig s. She brought
the gun and Tab started. He found the
way through the woods into Kentucky,
in 1871. After an absence OF eighteen
years he was elected to Congress. A
man OF immense size and strength, he
started for Washington, going by the way
OF his old home, to SEE the folks who had
long since given him up tor dead En-
tering the little cabin door near bed time,
he saw the identical gum log. He should
cred it, pulled the latch string and with
his load stood before the old man, pipe in
mouth, as quiet asusual.
Here is the gum back log, father
We'll you've been a long time getting
it. Put it on the fire and go to bed,' was
the reply.-From the San Antonio Herald.
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SEWING MACHINES" /"

Beware of strangers trying to peddle ma
chimes at exhorbitant prices, telling you our
machines are old and repaired, they lie when
they say it. we sell new American, Singer,
Victor House. Wheeler and Wilson, and St.
John, ut $1,000. Wilson and others at S16 to
1000. do not buy Of any one until you have
seen us, experienced repairers employed and
repairing done cheap. ~ fe0 .9'i1aIio #.
n ~ l.. G. LoHMAN & Co., ba9
4iq .n Dealers In everything.
jan4w1t Jefferson City, Mo.
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They quietly AZ. willis the staie runs itseli.
God bless Them and theirs ! May they pros,
81 per and live, ''
Till their masters, the'peopie, have nothing
~ to give. szv4
And now, rs.aood-by |! as on ward 20. s's
Another stepI BEGIN. va gaSgBf
Perhaps At IT'S end you'll have more ID show.
/, You can not have less Il ,weep.
Z .st1 1dlA-F A w bn IN
Good-by, old fellow! Old Time is Il scod.
Who cares for his passing sne.r?
Here's greeting to all, the young and the
oldl .o,l s... -IT, t...l.
To all a happy new year. stH.
The state journal., 1878-01-11
THAT AMT THE IDEA"
Editor of the State Jouenal::

Editor of the State Jouenal:
As one of the best of the "Murphy men" in
Jefferson City. beg the use of space enough
| in the JOURNAL to notice an editorial in your
| issue of yesterday, which contains the follow
ing remarkable statement: Having ascertalg ed
that the Murphy men have adjourned their
| meetings without, as yet, closing up any Of the
liquor establishments of the city, we append,
| &C., &c.
Allow me to say that this editorial is the first
intimation haye had that the meetings" had
"adjourned," or that they would cease at any
early date. On the contrary, my information
Is that steps have been taken to give the tenn.
perance movement permanent character, and
make it an established institution.
"Without, as yet. closing up any OF the liquor
establishments of the city, H I..
Allow me to say that your editorial gives the
first intination have had that the Murphy
| men ever desired or attempted to "close up''
any liquor establishments at all. What they
| did undertake to do was to pledge themselves
not to use Intoxicating liquors as beverage,
and to do what they could to induce other men
| TO give the same pledge. In this undertaking
| they haye met with such success as to inspire
them with confidence that a permanent organ.
izston for that purpose will! result in wide
spread and permanent good to the people Of
this city; and cannot understand why any
good citizen should be in a hurry to believe
| or proclaim the contrary.
Suffer me to say further in regard to "clOsing
up" liquer establishments. that think you
are some what unfortunate in making out the
"list" you append to your editorial. If I am
correctly informed, all of the establishments
ready forfeited their licenses (and cannst legal
ly renew them). by pleading ''guilt," to some
violation of the dram shop laws, at this term of
the Circuit Court. Bat have not heard that
any Murphy man proposes to "cose up any
| of the liquor establishments" or even to go so
far in that direction as to enforce the law
against them. On the contrary. the Murphy
men suppose that the enforcement of these
laws Is matter for the judge Of the Circuit
Court, the county attorney, the justices of the
county court, and for "every civil officer, and
every officer Of incorporated cities and towns -
| and that the business of Murphy man is sim
ply "to abstain from the use Of intoxicating
liquors as 3 beverage, and to use his influence
to induce others so to do" This is his obliga-
tion, and it is all OF his obligation. This Is
certainly thing which he has a legal and
moral right to do, and to which no fsir.minded
citizen can make any objection. "i'J ii %
The tone Of the editorial referred to seems to
imply ssme hostile feeling towards the temper.
anee movement, and If you Cor any other citi.
zen, have any reasonable objection to urge
against the obligation taker by the Murphy
man. or any duty imposed by that obligation.
I world be glad to have you state 1t fully and
eandidly. as confess to you that like the
obligation, and am not able to discover any
good ressen against 1t. Yours truly, ee
y f9 'f TIA
The state journal., 1878-01-11

The number OF hogs slaughtered and
packed during the past two months in
Chicago has been 1.202. .537, against L.
050, 0,945 for the same period last year. To
indulge in reportorial imagery, this is not
bad. considering the inclemency OF the
weather. tt'o
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, JAMES GOODWIN, President.

JACOB L. GREENE, Secretary.
JOHN NJ. TAYLOR, Asst Secretary.
ID. II. WELLS. I'd Asst Secretary.
f. D. DOUGLASS, Sup't of Agencies.
A. b. DENTON, General Agent,
st. Louis, Mo.
s. W, cox, Agent.
Jefferson City, Mo.
The state journal., 1878-01-11

Several exchanges are giving direec.
tions How to dress The most sensible
way is to stay in bsd TIL the fire is started
and then take your clothes under your
arm and trot out to the dining room stove.
Rome Sentinel.
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Dec. - 1, 1876. |oA-''o'o w

Facts and figures like these commend them.
selves to the inte llgence and judgment of all
men. They carry conviction upon bare pre-
sentation, and need no argument or illustration
to demonstrate their significance.
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Married.

LADIES-TUTTLE-Th newly married
pair visited friends in the city Saturday. The
groom, Mr.. j. A. Ladies, is of Cedar City,
and the bride. Miss Laura Tuttle, Of Columbia.
They were married on the End inst.
The state journal., 1878-01-11

Stop that coughing; il you do not il
may kill You. A Bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup only costs you % cts. and
its timely use may save your life.
The state journal., 1878-01-11
THE OLD SONG.
BY MARY IRVING.

A simple song. nameless song,
Sweet tremulous and slow!
1t blossomed on a human Hip
Two hundred years ago!
That lip has crumbled back to dust
Aud centuries worn asunder |.H
With stony clasp the chords that woke
II )lian breathings underl
Yet tell me not that long ago
The na,ueless ceased to be.
Death never won human heart
Embalmcd in melody!
This soul embod led in the thrill
OF one heart touching tone,
Goes waking on thousand lips
The echo of its own!
1t tells its own sad story in
That sweet and broken lay;
A soul that in life's labyrinth
Went wandering astray;
A soul that lived, soul that loved.
A soul that watched and wept,
Then folded up its weary wings.
Lay down in peace, and slept.
Far better thus a nameless throb
Cast on the shoreless sea
OF human hearts, TO circle on
In csaseless sympathy.
Than heartless trump hung idly on
The brazen tower of Fame,
Sending down deaiened centuries
The climor of q name!
Better to sing IA cradle hymn
Than babbie mystery;
Better to live in human love
Than human memory!
oh, sing that tuneful song again.
But soft and sad and slow; a..
Sweet az the spirit sighed it forth
Two hundred years ago!
The state journal., 1878-01-11

We all have our preferences; bat no
one periers to her crying baby when the
fact Is so we'll known that DIR. Bulls Baby
Syrup would at once quiet it.
The state journal., 1878-01-11

Time is money. but health is happiness
If you have bad cold or cough, use i,r
Bulls Cough Syrup, it will cure you
Price, 25 cents.
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DISBURSED 1876

To Policy Holders. go. ssols,75s.0s
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Net Assets, January l, 1876, $ii, 49,, J5.5s
REEIVED IN 1876

For Premiums, $6,T25.1a0.67
For Interest and Rent, 2S95 1913. .i8
, 1878-01-18

The LAGOON. Latin poet Vir-
gil has drawn vivid picture Of one OF
.!ie scenes which FASTENED the fall of an
cient Troy. The noOle Trojan priest,
LAGOON, denounced the infatuation oi
his countrymen, when they determined
to receive the monstrous wooden horse,
stuffed with Greek troops and princes,
into the city. He tried every means TO
rouse his countrymen to sense OF theiI
peril, and at last hurled his spear against
the hollow fraud. But lest his passion
might be effective, the hostile gods that
helped the Greeks sent two serpents over
the sea from Tenedos, with crests drop
ping blood and quivering tongues that
licked their Kissing mouths. They made
their way in the city at once to LAGOON
and his sons, wound themselves in fright
tul festoons around their limbs, bound
them in group of agony which sculp-
ture has made immortal, crushed and
strangIed them, and reared their crests
and poisonous tongues over the brow OF
the patriotic priest, whose chapl.t was
black with their poison and red with Ills
own death.
, 1878-01-18

Vow ~ CHOosE A WIZ That
young lady viii make good wife vino
does not apologize When you had her %
work in the Kitchen, bot continues a.
be-. task until 10 j. flushed. Nhru you
hear young lady say, II shall attend
church and wear my old bonnet and
waterproof cloak, f1r ! fear wt shall
have a rain storm. depsni upon ii, she
will make a good wifr. Nhen q dnugh
ter remarks. Mother, ] would not hire
help, tor ! can assist you o. do all the
vork In the Kitchen" set it down that
,hc will make somebody q good wife
When you bear young lady say 10 her
father, "D1nt sou puichase a very ca
pen,ivs or showy dress fof ne, bat one
that W.ll wear beet" you may be sure
she will make a good wife.
, 1878-01-18
COMPENSATION OF MOODY AND sANKE

COMPENSATION OF MOODY AND SANKEY.
The Burlington (Vt) Free Press, of
Nov. 30, says: There is no secret, we
believe, certainly no reason why there
should be any, about the compensation
paid to the evangelists who labored il
Vermont last month. Messrs. Moody
and Sankey asked nothing for their ser
vices here. 1t has been said, and we sup
pose it to be true, that wealthy gentle
man in Chicago holds himself response
bic for the support of Mr.. Moody'S fam
lily and Ior his expenses, while he is en-.
gagged in Gospel work The Christian
people of Burlington, feeling that Mr..
Moody's visit here had been great pub
lie blessing, aud not desiring to be un.
der any obligation TO any one in Chicago
or elsewhere, for pecuniary assistance 10
such matter, made upa fund 10y sub
scription and handed MIR, Moody $500
for himself and Mr.. Sankey. This Was
lcse than s. apiece for each Of the ser
mons and public meetings held by them
here, but II was all Mr.. Moody would
accept. In Rutland, Major Whlitic ami
Mr.. aud Mrs MCGmuahan we're paid
$500 together, and IN Bennington hessr..
Needham and Cato received together
about S25j."
, 1878-01-18
The Art Of Listening,

The art Of listening il a delicate and
difficult art, and one that IL seldom prHc.
ticed II j. delicate because 1t demands,
ii not sympathy, a show # sympathy,
aad continuous attention, as well AS an
air nf interest II is difficult because
.clra sertion is natural, and a state of
passivcness without manifestation Of
wrsrincs, is .irSsome 10 maintain. On
account of its delicacv and Il tiic ilty, not
les than i ON want of knowing how to
manage il, il il the rare art IN society.
The few listeners that understand listen.
ing are invariably liked, even admired,
and not unlrequently charm the takers
tO wh I'M they Civ, ear. The CO lis'en.
er is pretty sure 10 get name for intel
leCt, culture, wit, readi0e~s-ior any sort
of quality, indeed, which he or shc does
not reveal and may not posses. The
person fond of talking usually cudrws
the person who listens with whatever at,
tributes he thinks he has himself and his
good D iuion of the listener Crews stead.
ily, until sometimes 1t amounts to posi-
tive worship. 1t is not enough to listen
merely in negative manner, for this ap-
pears like resignation, like silent suffer
ing, like accomplishing martyrdom, and,
besides, may he mistaken for stupidity,
which is fatal to the listeners hope and
object. One may be as stupid as an owl
in society, but his listeners must disguise
his stupidity if they would be accepted ;
and, above all, never Indicate or hint to
anybody else that the speaker has any
possibility of stupidity. We can be dull
ness and commonplace itself with impu-
nifty, provided we seem to think well OF
our acquaintances.-Hdrper's Basar.
, 1878-01-18

NEXT to wine, cider is the liquor msst
consumed in France, hut within the last
20 years the consumption has fallen from
AZ to 35 gallons per head annually. Its
use is now confined TO the northwestern
departments. The consumption of beer
steadily increases, but it is almost entire
ly confined to the departments contigu-
Gus to Belgium. Experience has demon
Stra'ed that white wines are much more
likely than red to act upon the nervous
system.
, 1878-01-18

cPffsrf Hf TEEN. co.'s o. ~ ttr rlrfaI a. 49, II
u NuLTuN lFo iu1rit ~t - Fraur4e. fa.aI +.
sIiiEs . tposlslJ Al vufA warranttz
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-06

E~lectioneering is over, for . time.
Colorado cast q vote Of 2a,500 at the
recent election.
The alarm Of fire, Yesterday morning,
ended in a puff Of smoke.
There were not many produce teams upon
our streets yesterday.
Michel Colligan filed an application for
desert land yesterday.
It's q good thing the saloons were
closed ~ yesterday.
Stocks are not 90 exciting Just now -
they were q few weeks 6 o
The free and intelligent voters Of tho
State Of Nevada will soon have the day Of
general Thanksgiving upon EN-.
The Ophir Mining Company yesterday
levied an assessment Of 81. PONY up"
10 the bonanzas.
The men Of figures in Arizona say that
the bullion yield Of that Territory, for the
year 1878, will foot up So, 00O, 900.
A fife and drum band waded through the
slush and snow last evening, on o serenad-
ing trip.
1t commenced showing about 2 p. M.
yesterday, and kept 1t up until the sun
went down.
From advices received, the snow storm,
yesterday, seems to nave been general all
over the State.
An advertisement in another column
says that twenty-five shares Of Grand
Prize stock has been lost, for the return
of which $40 will be paid.
There was no laboring by the hands about
the Richmond furnace grounds, yesterday,
on account Of the inclemency Of the
weather.
The Richmond Company yesterday al
lowed their employees at the mines 70 quit
work at 8 o'clock, in order to give them .
chance 10 cast their votes.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-06
OFFICIAL RETURNS FROM PINE
STATION.
Ticket Badly MIX, a.

Bradley. 0; Kinkead, II; dams, 16;
Mighels, 10; Deal, Is; Daggett l;Cole, IS;
Hawlcy, IS; Kittrell, IA; Murp- y, Is; Rule,
IA; Bieknell, IL; Baker, 2; Bah ock, %; j.
E. Jones, IA; Crockett, IL; lstner, IA;
Hallock, ~; Sessions, %; Hammond, 4;
Day, L; Hatch, %; Bartlett, 8; Doolin, 81;
J. L. Walker, 10; Jonathan Walker, IL;
Beatty, IS; Chandler, Is; Fisk, Is; Robin
son, 7; Wermuth, 10; Smith, II Rives, II;
Davenport, o; Singleton, 10; Kyle. Z; Har-
mon, 8; Dodge, II; Levy, II; McMartin. o;
Sadler, 5; Cooper, a; Haley, 0; Knight. 20;
Merrill. 10; Scanland, 10; Atwood, =;
Smith, n; Read, IA; Campbell, 49,; LAM
bert, 8; Turner, 10; Scott, z; Moore, "A;
Skillman, 10; McEwen, IA; Schneider, IL;
Clark, 7; Pardy, IL; Goldstone, 5; Cromer,
30: HAYES. 6: German, 20.