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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-19
Sorry He Ever Knew Him.

The Rev. DIR. Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, once had a body servant who had
lived with him so long that he had i'm
bibed something of his theology, and
considered himself well posted in all the
doctrines of the Presbyterian church.
On one occasion he was attending O
Methodist meeting, and the preaching
which he there heard was so different
from that to which he had been accus-
toned that he felt it his duty to publicly
announce his dissent. Whereupon he
was told to sit down and keep quiet. He
restrained himself for few minutes,
when he rose again and pronounced the
sermon to be downright heresy. He
was arrested and taken before justice,
who found him guilty of disturbing
religious meeting. Before pronouncing
sentence the judge addressed the culprit
as follows:
Sam, have known you since you
were a boy. l knew your father and
mother. / am well acquainted with
you master and mistress, and because
of my friendship for them 1 shall be
lenient with you. The penalty for the
crime of which you have been convict
ed is nine-and-thirty stripes. The maj
esty of the law must be maintained, but
have power to mitigate its severity.
Mr.. Constable, take Sam out and give
him eight-and-thirty stripes.
AS the officer was about to carry the
sentence into execution, Sam turned to
the Court and said:
Judge, almost wish you had never
knowed my old master"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-19

"a A curious circumstance is said to
have occurred in silk factory of M.
Garibaldi, at Cremona. 1t is positively
stated that in that factory quantity of
silk-worms, instead OF forming the CO.
coon, as usual, actually wove kind of
silk ribbon of the breadth of ten inches
and the length of upwards of twelve
feet. In the course of the inquiries made
on the matter, it has been elected that a
similar phenomenon, only on a much
larger scale, took place at Alexandria,
in 1888, in the silk factory of DIR. Clio,
where the silk worms wove ribbon two
inches broad and upwards of sixty feet
in length, part of which is now preserv-
ed in the Museum of Natural History at
Turin. .-LiveypooI Mail
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14
A Eoy's Composition.

Ma is my mother: l am her son. Ma 8
name is Mrs. Shrimp, and Mr.. Shrimp is
her husband. Pals my father. My name
is John George Washington Shrimp.
Therefore, pas is Shrimp, so is mas.
NV ma has ma She is my grandma.
She is mother-in-law to pa. Ny pa says
mother,in. laws ought to be vetoed. |
like grandma better then pa does. She
brings me ten cent stamps and bolivars,
She don't bring any to pa. Maybe that's
why he don't like her.
Aunt Jerusha 10 my aunt When pa
was little boy she was his sister. ! like
little sisters. Dicky Mopps has little
sister Her name is Rose. take her
out riding on my sled. Aunt Jerusha
don't like her. She calls her that Mopps
girl. / think aunt Jerusha ought to be
ashamed of herself.
Aunt Jerusha lives with US. Some
times think ma wonld rather have her
live with somebody else. l asked Aunt
Jerusha once why she didn't marry some
body and set up for herself. She said
that a man wanted to marry her, but that
while poor Susan Jane was in such a
state of health, she couldn't think OF
leaving! Besides" she said, "whai
would become OF your pa 7"
Aunt Jcrusha has state OF health. too.
On washing day she has the headache,
and does her head up in brown paper and
vinegar; aud have to make toast at the
kitchen fire. make some for myself,
too.
Aunt Jerusha says nobody knows
what she has done for that boy. That
boys me again, told pa what she said
Pa said it was just SO. Nobody die
know. Ma said Aunt Jerusha means
we'll, and that she is pas dear sister
don't see why that's any reason she shoule
always scold me when cat cabbage will
q knife.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

ograph repeats it. You see, this opens
up vast field, and one suggestion fol-
lows another. Now" continued Mr..
Edison, with another OF his happy laughs,
"the lover. while waiting for his sweet
heart to finish her toilet, can place on
the photograph sheet ofpretty things
she has said to him with her counterfeit
presentment."
"What will be the cost Of phono'
graph % 49,,
"About 500. The instrument will be
finished in all styles and handsomely dec
Grated
"But how about the aerophone :" ask
ed the reporter" :,
"Oh, haven't time to attend to that,
replied Mr.. Edison; "lm so busy will
the photograph. The aerophone is very
simple. It isn't like calliope, whicf
requires u keyboard and different notes
1t has only one note, and the vibrations
of that kre formed into words by tn,
escape of the steam. Now York " orld
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

Do IT Now. Don't live single hour
of your life without doing exactly what
is to be done in it, and going straigh!
through it from beginning to end. Work,
play, study. whatever it is--take hold at
once and finish it up squarely aud clean
"; then to the next thing, without let.
ting any moments drop between. 1t is
wonderful how many hours these promp,
people contrive to make Of a day f; 1t ia
as if they picked up the moments that
the dawdlers lost. And II ever you find
yourself where you have SO many things
pressing upon you that you hardly know
how to begin, let me lell You secret
take hold Of the first one that comes to
hand, and you will find the rest to fal
into file, and follow after, like company
of we'll drilled soldiers; and though work
be hard to meet when it charges in
squad, it is easily vanquished if.you oar
bring It into line. You may have otter
seen the anecdote Of tho man who was
asked how he had accomplished SO much
in fife. He replied, My father taught
me when had anything to do, to go and
do it, There is the secrct-the magic
word NOW,
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f%The "fat man" whom / mention,

rEThe "fat man. whom mentioned
in my last letter is now exhibiting him
self at the Egyptian Hall, in London, and
making a good thing of it. Fancy, if
you can, a young man only % years old.
weighing 72s pounds, and measuring
eight feet round the shoulders. He
seems in perfect health and is very chat
ty, popularity shared by his wife, who
accompanies him and who seems proud
of having the biggest husband Of any
woman in England, and perhaps in the
world.
A ball Of waste cotton, saturated with
coal oil, rolled in sulphur, and fred un-
der a tree, did not burn radidly, but sent
ND dense smoke which killed all the
black lice with which the tree was infec-
ted So says a Pennsylvania fruit grow
er.
An expert can tell il the man at
the other end Of the telephone eat on.
ions.
A Kansas school committee promptly
rejected an applicant for teachers posi-
ton, because he spelled humble bee with
an "h."
The horse White Cloud has been levied
on in Atlanta for debt.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

A poor man on his death bed made his
will. He called his wife to him and told
her OF its provisions. II have left" be
said "my horse to my parents. sell itand
hand over the money you receive. !
leave to you my dog, take good care OF
him, he will serve you faithfully. The
wife promired to obey, and in due time
set out for the neighboring market with
the horse and dog. "How much do yen
want for your horse ?" inquired the far
mer. l cannot sell the horse alone, but
you may hove both of them at reasona.
BILE rates. Give mo one hundred dallars
for the dog and one dollar for the horse"
The farmer laughed. but as the terms
were low he willingly accepted them.
Then the worthy woman gave the hus-
band parents the dollar received for the
horse and kept the hundred dollors for
herself.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

EJ Bev. Dr.. Joseph Wild, pastor OF
the Elm Place Congregational Church OF
Brooklyn. has been preaching sermons
Sunday nights for several weeks past to
show that the war Just over in Europe
and the war to come, in which England
is to trounce Russia and drive the Turk
into Asia, are the working out ofthe Old
Testament prophecies, and that the end
is to be the finding OF the Ark 1.-THE
Covenant and the lost standards which
were hidden BY jeremiah and the triumph
and glory of the children OF lsreal, Gods
chosen people, DR. Wild has the rep
utation of being scholar, and declares
that he has spent fifteen years in studying
Hebrew, Greek. and Irish history bealiay
upon.the matter.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

There are people who live behind the
HILL" is an old German proverb, which
means that there are other folks in the
world besides yourself although you may
not see them.
A Sunday school teacher was telling
her scholars the other Sunday about bad
boy who stold a hundred dollars. when
abe was interrupted BY one of her audit
ors with the query: And how the dick
ems did he get such chance.
During time of great political excite
ment DR.. Chiever called on an old deacon
for prayer. The deasoa said Well pas
toy, / will ii you insist on it, but, really,
I'm too mad to pray now"
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14
Van Buren, Grange, PHI.

WAN buren, GRANGE. No. SO, P.ofH. Reg.
Y ular meetii gs first Saturday of eaci
month at 8 o'clock. A, NJ. at Lemley's Hall
miles east of Van Buren,. Ark. Patrons in
good standing are fraternally invited.
NJ. C. LEMLEY, W. NJ.
J. 5. BoATRiGBT, Secretary.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

1t is estimated that the population OF
Kansas will be increased by two hundred
thousand this year
Lett uce have peas.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14
FIR Ell NAL.
MASONIC


UNHE regular Convocations of VAN buren, CHAPTER
i No. 3, Il. A. M, are held at Masonic Hall, OF
Monday Evening after Saturday on or before the full
moon. Visiting Companions in good standing ar
j. G. KENNEDY. II. p.
W H. H. SHIRLEY Secretary, decltf
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LITTLE Rock, ARKANSAS,

WILL buy and sell lands, take dispositions pay
w taxes, secure donations, prescriptions. home
steads and furnish TOWNSHIP plats showing all Ia nds
subject donation, sale and pre- -emption in every
township and county in the State ihvest2 gate titles
and abstracts furnished. have superior facilities
.or furnishing Information from oil Departments Of
h Q Sta Government.
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HAYMAN g. SONS.
M ACHINIST
Machine Agents,

VAN buren,, ARKANSAS
For I. d f. Greenwald's Steam Engines,
Boilers and Mill Machinery ofevery descrip-
tion. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Also, for James Bradford Il Co.'S Mill stone
Mandatory, and Mill Furnishers, Cinn.,O.
REFER
Gol. J. P. KING, Mulberry Mill, Franklin Co.
MOORE, PYATT Son, FIGURING Mills, Boonsboro
JAMES MALEooAT, FIGURING Mills, Billingsly,
W. II. RHEA, Rheasville.
"A, n. CALLAHAN Co., Cotton Factory and Mill
Van Buren,.
Merchants, Van Burea-Wiliiams h Whitfield, j.
San Co. NJ. Eynch, George Austin sc. Powell
DE 8dstin. White & II ,pieI.
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10. O. r.

CRAWFORD LODGE, No. 6, of ODD FELLOWS,
u meets every Friday, at 7 o'clock. P. M, at their
Hall in Eagle Block.
HOMAS NJ MCGEE, N. G.
BEREELEY NEAL, Sec'y.
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For each square of ten lines or less. for the first
insertion. So for each subsequent insertion VI.
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Yearly advertisers will BIO required to pay quar-
terly and all others when their advertisements are
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Transient advertisements must be paid for in ad-
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When the number of insertions is not specified ad-
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Legal advertisements will be inserted at tho nsu-
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given until the advertising fee is paid.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

Crawford Lodge No. 6. 10 o. F., Degree
of Rebekah, meets the first Thursday night of eve
nv month, at Odd Fellows Hall.
The Van Buren press., 1878-05-14

Lett uce have peas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-06-13
BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY, :::::::::::::::::::::JUNE Is, 1873,
The Potter Committee.

When this committee was organi-
zed to investigate the frauds said to
have been committed at the last
Presidential election, we had our
fears that such an investigation
might result in further oppression
Of the South, and our mind is not
yet entirely satisfied that such fear
was unfOunded.
Every rejecting man, North or
South, Democrat or Republican, has
long since been satisfied that Presi-
dent Hayes had been elevated to
the Presidency by the preparation
of the most stupendous frauds, and
calm, dispasionate view Of the sit
uation would seem to demand that
they be unearthed, and the guilty
perpetrators punished, whatever the
cost may be.
When the time comes that men
can be made President and Cabinet
Ministers, and all the parties to a
fraudulent counting in of public
officers under our elective system,
without protest or investigation, be
submitted to by our people, we will
cease to be fit subjects of a free gov.
eminent.
The investigation now going on
has already resulted in enough to
fill every true man with loathing
and disgust, that men Of high posi-
tions of trust in our Government
such as John Sherman, Stanley
Matthews, Noyes, and others, shoult
have demonstrated their fitness, no
tofill the positions they now occupy
but to connive at, and recommen,
the preparation of acts that deserv
the Penitentiary, rather than th
promotion that has followed thei
participation in them.
Whatever the result of this inves
tigation may be, We hope it will d,
monstrate that Honesty in politics
as well as everything else, is til
best policy.
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State News.
GRANT.

GRANT.
Parish Jail empty, and all serene.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.
The sugar crop has been much
benefited by recent rains, and is
promising.
HIGHLAND.
A Democratic mass meeting will
be held next Saturday.
The Beacon is pleased to learn
that Rayville is about to organize a
literary club.
The ssSaxonn hears flattering ac-
counts Of the crops, both corn and
cotton, from all parts Of Sabine.
The Saxon hoists at its masthead
as it's choice for Congressman, j. B
Elan, for reelection. Sabine is a
unit for him, and we are glad to
hear it.
CADDO.
The Times quotes cotton: Ordin
airy, So; Good Ordinary, o.; Low
Middling, o.; Middling, 106; Coco
Middling, LII.
River, % feet 10 inches above Low
water mark. Falling.
Cotton quoted at New Orleans
Ordinary, %; Good Ordinary, 81
Low Middling, 1O3; Middling, LII
Good Middling, IL. Gold, 1014.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-06-13
General News Items.

Senator Gordon will speak at |
Evansville, Indiana, July 4th.
The National Greenbackers'
have nominated a full State ticket in
Michigan.
- In Lynchburg, Virginia, the
Workingmen elected their candidate
for Mayor.
- In consequence of dread of
Socialism, Russia desires immediate
peace. Hurrah for the British Lion.
"A bill forbidding the destruc-
ton of legal tender notes has been
passed by both Houses Of Congress.
The Confederate Memorial
Association will decorate the Con-
federate graves at Arlington to day.
The President has signed the
bill repeating the Bankrupt law,
which takes effect Sept. 1.
The Cuban war is FINISHED, .
and the instruction entirely at an
end. Good.
/ The next meeting of the
American Medical Association will
be held at Atlanta, Ga, first Mon
day in May, 1879.
j -Roumania officially notifies
, Austria that she will not cede Bess
arabia, even in obedience to tn
, powers. Give up Bess, no, never.
"A man named Caldwell, nea
$ Americas, Ca, recently killed hi
) wife, three children and wife's sister
! And finanally, after several efforts
s succeeded in killing himself.
d - Seven persons were senten.
u ed to from 5 years to Is months in
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Correspondence.
Hot SPRINGS, ARK, !
June 8. 1878. {

HOT SPRINGS. ARK,
June 5, 1873.
I arrived at the Springs last Sat
urday "right side up" with great
care. For the information of Bossier-
ties desiring to visit the Springs, l
will first state that the fare from
Bellevue is SIG. You take the train
at Shreveport at $50 P. NJ; arrive at
Marshall in three hours distance
of forty miles. You remain all night
at Marshall, and take the cars at 4
O'clock in the morning. You arrive
at Hot Springs at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon. The distance from
Shreveport being 241 miles. You
take breakfast at Texarkana, "a
miles from Marshall. That costs
six bits. / do not believe I eat u
cents worth of tough beefsteaks and
stale biscuits. But as the waiter.
were pretty red.haired and frecklet
faced young ladies, what l lost il
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feasting the appetite ] gained in
feasting the eyes.
Being somewhat dusty, an my ar
rival, / was in good condition to
take bath. The revivifying effect
of these waters is marvellous. 1t
makes one feel almost like another
person. have been in hot water
often, but in no case so pleasant as
these purifying waters. To a begin
ner, the water is tempered to about
"a or 96 degrees. astonished the
good old darkey when / told him to
sturn her on" to about JOG or 1O8.
Nine minutes is the usual time in
which to parboil. A sand-glass is
placed on the bath-tub, which runs
out every 8 minutes, and when it
runs through 3 times you know you
have been cooked. You are then
taken into a little closet, placed,
sitting upright, in a box, and the
box closed up, leaving the head out
side. You remain 3 minutes, and
before that time, you wonder if there
is much hotter place. | do not
recollect the temperature, but !
think it is about hot enough to scald
a hog.
There are about 1000 visitors in
the valley. But, as some go, others
come, and the season lasts nearly
the entire year.
The heightened hotels charge 81
a day. Other hotels, with less tone
and more victuals, charge only 81
Board and lodging in private houses
ranges from $S to $15a week, will
no growing.
There is no "fashion and style
put on outside of the aristocrati'
hotels. People come here for health
: convenience and comfort, and dom
care a tinker's imprecation for ap
pearanccs or public opinion.
} Bossier is represented BY Colone
David G. Marshall, and daughter
Clyde Pickett, Mrs. Walker, B. T
Fleming, DIR. Mcfarland, and Wn
\ E. Council. Mr.. Cornell says he
G slightly improving. Also, Capt.
!, Y. Webb and Tommy Carter, G
e Minden.
i DR.. e. A. Shippey, late Of Bessie
= is practicing here. His Office We
burned at the late fire, and he
n having another one built.
al j. M. s.
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prisonment in Berlin last Wednes-
day for "using disloyal language in
speaking of the Emperor"
And now George L. Smith
has qualified and "taken posses
sionn of the Custom House at New
Orleans. The Government conf
IDENTIFY expects the return of the
building.
There is much talk Of reviv-
ing the "whipping post" in Arkan.
sas. The Hope City Times says sew
eral papers, and many candidates,
are in favor of making it a claw of
the land.n
- The Grand Lodge Of Free
Masons, of New York, have resolved
not to recognize as a Mason any
person "entered" or "raisedn in any
body where the existence Of Su-
preme Being is denied or ignored.
On the Goth ult., at Owens
vile, Indiana, Andy Compagnion,
a noted desperado, was taken from
his bed by six masked men and rid
died with bullets. why don't you
howl, Inter- Ocean
- Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, in
troduced in the House the other day
a bill authorizing the issue of $50,
OOO, 900 to be applied to the improv
ment of the Mississippi river from
st. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr.. Hendricks thinks Tilder
elected, but the action of the Elec
tOral Commission settles the ques
ton of Hayes title. The frauds
however, should be investigated
and the perpetrators punished.
The Republican State Tickle
is elected in Oregon. The Demo
Gratis have elected their Congress
man, and have 10 majority on join
ballot in the Legislature. Elected
Democrats, SO; Republicans, SO; II
pendents, 4.
Dixon, a Missouri farmer
, left home to make some purchase
in town, leaving his two childre
{ at home alone, and when he returl
ed, found them dead together. lib
little things had hidden in trnn
$ in sport, and the spring lock faster
: ed them down forever.
Judge Levisee 'confesses
before the Potter Committee that
was offered $4,000 to cast a blar
Electoral vote, but he asked 800
I 600, "with view of finding out wi
had the money" He thinks it W
s. gamblers, and not Democrats. WI
a tried to bride him. The Judg
name was forged early and often,
70 the interest of Radicalism. "Ho
10 est, honest Iago."
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CARROLL.

W. VAO A1OAAAu6 Va VAS OVsAA Ne'e'f
Ralph Smith shot, MORALLY it was
thought, ALT Bowman. Both are
colored. Smith then got away, and
was at large at last accounts. The
Conservative says the shooting was
a brutal act, and without cause or
provocation.
A little more work, and less loaf
ing would improve Lake Providence
very much, growls the Conservative.
EAST BATON ROUGE.
A Greenback and Laboring Mans
Party is being organized in this
parish.
The Herald reports that the body
of an infant was found floating in
the Manchac, near Booths store.
The Advocate of the 3lst reports
too much rain, and the crops very
much in the grass. "The corn in
many places is looking badly, but
the cotton has better appearance"
Freshets have swept away fences on
creek bottom lands, and damaged
the corn and cotton.
AvoYELLEs.
The Bulletin counts on a fair crop
of cane; the yield of corn promises
to be large one; cotton is far adj
vanced for the season, and growing
] rapidly. Plenty of potatoes have
been planted, and number Of hogs
are being raised.
/ Schools are in fourishing condi
ton, in places.
j Marksville is crawfishing, extern
siyely. The Bulletin, however, don't
crawfish worth a cent, on the Con
vention question. Mr.. Lafargue's
articles are sensible and pointed.
WEST FELICIANA.
The Sentinel, in sensible, well
written article, favors a thorough
: organization Of the Democratic par
ty as essential to party success, ant
deprecates disentegration. You ar
$ right, Mr.. Editor. The Radica
q party is not dead, but s'possuming,
+ and it won't do for the Democrat,
e of Louisiana to be thrown off thei
k guard by the cry of No Partyism.-
/ "Eternal vigilance is the price Q
Liberty" There is plenty of wor
y ahead of us.
e CALDWELL.
k The farmers of this parish are il
!, vesting in blooded stock-cattl,
10 sheep and hogs. Their heads al
rs level.
10 The editor of the Columbia Heral
IS has recently had an opportunity
in hearing public sentiment in the pa
n ishes Of Caldwell, Winn and Match
toches, in regard to the amendmen
to the Constitution. The people
the above parishes denounce Il
amendments as ssfarce and impo
le. tion," and will vote sssolid again
them, says the Herald.
cn BIENvMLE.
70 Crops are growing finely, and a
said to be most promising. T
~ Times thinks, if the seasons cont
ne favorable, there will be an abr
dant yield.
We suggest that Minden be agre
upon as the place for holding t
Senatorial Convention in this d
trict. With the "Banner,n ssDen
ac- craft" and 'sGuardian" represent
"A the other parishes we certainly c
nu agree as to time. What say our c.
freress No doubt the Parish G,
,ad trail Committees, as is the case
D Bienville, are perfectly willing Il
the matter be determined throu