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Slandcr Fittingly Rebuked.
From tile ottumwa (Iowa) Onward. ]


Whisky under ordinary circumstances
can, and does do great deal fmischief,
but when you desire to see the devil do
his best work at torturing poor humani-
ty, call in to see him when he has turned
lot Of long and timber tongues loose in a
community. There is class of creatur
os--hes and shes-things that arc neith-
er men nor women, they are hyonas in
human form, and they gorge themselves
to the full on the foul and foetid false
hoods that continually ooze from the
Shiny and sinking sewers of each others
mouths. Their daily food is talsehood
and filth and the moro nauseating and
nasty the more nourishing and nutritious
to these gloating ghouls. Their dain-
test dish is served up in its most savory
manner, when two or three of them
meet to handy bawdy lies about some
good and virtuous girl or woman. These
he harlots of hades are always happiest
when spreading the spawn of their leach
erous lies over the saintcd name of wife
or mother, for by SO doing the devilish
ichor, dripping from their uleerous lips,
will eat through and poison the whole
family. The SUBSCRIPTIONS are the sam
Piles which Satan's dummers have locat
cd in each village to show to mankind
the meanest thing on earth or in hell--a
tell-tale termrgant. Shut your ears and
doors against them. Let these filthy
tiends feel that you loathe them as you
do the sow that is fresh from her wallow.
1.-THE long-eared and long -tonguod hound
comes TO your presence, bid him begone
and return to his vomit. Kick those
skunks of society from your path. Make
them feel that they are no moro welcome
to your homes or in your presence, than
is the bedbug or the polecat. Show these
vcrmin that there is no place for them
in. decent society any moro than there is
for the buzzard, or the bawd, or the
louse-infested bat. Sooner would We
welcome to our humble home Shiny
snake than one of these babbling, TAFT
ling, scandal serving cesspools that be
foul society.
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1.-THE CANDIDATE"

Father, who travels the road so lateg"
FLUSH, my child, tits the candidate;
Fit example of human Woe
Early he comes and late he goes
He greets the woman with eourtly grace
He kisses the baby's dirty face,
He calls to the fence the farmer at work,
The blacksmith, while his anvil rings,
He greets, and this is the song he sings
"Howdy, howdy, howdy-do?
How is your wife, and how are you?
All! 1t fits my fist as no other can.
The horny hand of the working man."
Husband. who Is that man at the gate?"
Hush, my love. tits the candidate
Husband. why can't he work like you9
"iIas he nothing at home to do?"
"My dear, whenever man Is down,
No cash at home no credit in town.
Too stupid to preach and too proud to beg
Too timid to rob and too lazy to dig,
Then over his horse his legs he filings
And to the dear people this song he sings
"Ifowdy howdy, howdv-do?
How is your wife, and how are you?
All 1t fits my fist rs no other can.
The horny hand Of the working man.
Brothers, who labor early and late,
Ask these things of the candidate:
What's his record? How does he stand
At home; no matter about his hand,
BE it hard or soft, so it be not prone
To close over money not his own.
Has he in view no thievng plan?
Is he honest and capable ?--he is our man,
Cheer such an eth the Weihih rings,
Join In the chorus when thus he sings:
"Howdy, howdy. howdy-do?
How is your wife, and how are your
All it fits my fist as no other can,
The horny hand of the working man."
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Here is specimen of Emerald wit
that isn't so bad:
On the Cambridge bridge there was a
toll of one cent (now abolished Two
Irishmen approached from Boston rather
dilapidated in appearance, and having
"nary red" with which to pass the gate
A passer by, on solicitation, gave one
them a penny but how should this avail
TO get them both over? After laying
their heads together" one of them ap
preached the toll keeper and ASKED
"Sure an one cent" how much is it
to go over"
"Arrah, now an may ! carry bundle
on my back Z"
"As much as you please" said the toll,
man.
Pat very deliberately stepped back and
taking Mike on his shoulders, walked up
boldly, and posting his penny marched
on with his burden to the middle of the
bridge, when they changed places, and
Mike toted Pat over to the Cambridge
SIDE. The penny saved was well earn
ed-the bridge being about a mile long.
Washington has the Only college fol
deaf mutes in the world. There are al
present forty six students in this institn
ton. Thirteen different states have re
representatives., the western predominant
ing
The honest sausage maker never fail
to make both ends meat
A bad marriage is like an electric ms
chine--it makes you dance, but you can
let 60,
A tax on profane language would rails
more revenue than the Moliett drink rec
istefs ii ID t! more man was taxed tn
more he " I'D swear,
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THE SUN.
1878. NEW YORK. 1878

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AIN a.

Is new and fast improving town, nine
miles east Of Van Buren, on the line of
the L, r. & F. s. Railway, and is the cen.
ter of COED neighborhood, and com
mands large trade. There is steam
FIGURING Mill and Cotton Gin in opera
ton; several stores, hotels, weekly
newspaper, and all the various kinds of
business usually transacted in country
towns, have their representatives in this
place.
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Come, don't be timid," said couple
OF foolish snobs to the two mechanics;
"sit down and make yourselves our
equals" WED have to blow our brains
out to do that" was the reply.
When you hear a country church choir
singing, There will be no more sorrow
there, you conclude that either the afore.
said choir will not be there, or they will
not be permitted to sing.
Perhaps it is wrong to 90 fishing on
Sunday, but if fish are wicked enough to
bite on Sunday they ought to be made to
suffer for it.
Eve was the prime woman.
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CRAWFORD COUNTY.

Asks the attention of all who are seeking
homes, to the attractions offered in the
way of fertile lands, to her facilities for
manufacturing, to her climate unsnrpass.
ed in healthfulness, and to the cheapness
of all the necessaries of life.
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CEDARVILLE,

Ten miles north Of Van Buren,, on the
stage road to Fayetteville, is a place of
considerable business, there being a
steam FIGURING Mill and wool carding
machine in the vicinity.
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ARKLOE,

In the western part of the county, is the
location of steam FIGURING Mill and
Cotton Gin and two stores.
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MINI is not easily earned in these timss.
HJJ but it can be made in three mon'ni,
All any one of either sex, in any part "
the country who is willing to work steaou,
at the employment that we furnish. $6o p,
week in your town. Iou need not be aMs,
from home over night. You can give yos,
whole time to the work, or only your spar
moments. We have agents who are makln.
over $50 per day, All who engage at e i,s,
can make money fast. AT the present t .s,,
money cannot he made so easily and rapl'.r.
by any other business. 1t costs nothing :"
try the business. Terms and SIS Quit free.
aine. lyjuly
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DIVERS STATION.

On the Fayetteville road, is Is miles
north of Van Buren,, and has steam
mill and cotton gin, and is good bust.
ness point.
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BELMONT in the eastern part Of the
county, and MOUNTAINEERING in the
north western part, have post offices,
stores and mills.
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TNHE wellknown and long es iii
i at Van Buren,, Arkansas, is now under IL.
charge of the subscriber. The proprietors h.,
ing recently put on a large New Steamboat A.;
with careful and experienced Ferrymen, they few
confident that they can give universal satisfo..
to the travelling public. THAR aim Wilt
meetthe increasing demands of the lar
grant travelto Texas.
The St. Louis and Sherman, Texas. II n
Mails ARE carried over this Ferry which 10 . eos,
guarantee that it is the shortest as we'll q N.
best route for travel of all xinds.
This Ferry has the largest and best boat on !
river, and can cross 200 wagons and teams M
day and no detention Oh either bank need be q,
pected. Enclosures for stock, and sheds for tn,
elers being built on both sides of the river and
No pains will be spared toaccommodate the publ,
Weshall strive to continue to make this the DOB
ular routs to and from Missouri and Texas.
N. BERRY Accounts must be settled Month
ly. No deviation from this rule.
WILL. EAKIN, Superintendent.
Van Buren,, Feb .4,'73. n
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MUS; ana the county grows excellent
wheat. The corn. cotton, cereals, grasses, es-
peciallv blue-wheh takes hold OF the soil,
and spreads rapidly and close (as it does, in
deed In other parts Of the valley -clover and
fruits are all grown here in great perfection
and quantity To the acre. Fruits, especially,
have been so thoroughly tested and cultivate
ed by Or. r. Thurston, near Van Buren, that
it is now demonstrated that the Arkansas Will
produce fruit equal to any other valley In the
world
The Valley of Lees Creek contains excel
lent land, both bottom and high lands; these
last are, for the most part, broken, rough and
rocky, The Valley of Lees Creek, with its
tributaries. is probably wider than that OF
any othertributary running into the ArSan-
sas, on the north, within the State. but great
hills and high bluffs of the millstone-gri
sandstones everywhere intersect it; and YET
there are great bodies of fertile bottom anc
uplands. and thousands OF homes awaiting
the immigrant and the advent of your road
As elsewhere and repeatedly remarked, tn,
railroad lands pierce this valley from Littl,
/ Rock to For: Smith, and a general and swift
| description of the county is u general anC
! swift description. OF them
At Dripping Springs and vicnage, s. - I
| 10, II. 81, the shale Is very thick, and has al
oily and glistening touch and look Lime
stone Is found here in masses protrudsn.
from the earth; a wide tract OF fertile LANE
surroundsit it. Its nine miles northward from
Van Buren,.
AT Mrs. Forts S. II. I. |, r.. 80, on Lee
Creek, coal Is visible in its bed the Thickness.
of this coal is untested, and so is its quality
PonderoGs blocks, water-wor of carbonat,
iron are abundant; there is some pine on tn,
hills. which are lofty.
| At Natural Dam, S. g. 7. IL, r. 81. which /.
} on and crosses the Mountain Fork of Lee.
Creek. the cliff or " o9m7 is about thirteen
feet UiWf of "A dark va set
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
Northern Idaho Items.

We condense the following items
from the Lewiston Teller:
Lewiston has brass band.
A man was arrested in Genesee val.
ley the other day for stealing a rifle.
The $50 rifles that were ordered 10
be sent from Vancouver for the vol.
unteer militia of North Idaho have
never reached there, aud it is said the
military authorities refuse to send
them.
The Nez Perez prisoners who ar
rived by the steamer Almota last
week were turned loose as they
emerged from the mouth of tine can
yon on the road leading to Lapwai
garrison. I'one by authority from
General Howard.
4 few days ago four inches of snow
fell at Mount Idaho.
The steamer Annie Paxton, on her
upward trip from Cello, while pass.
ing over the Umatilla rapids, on the
Columbia river, ran upon a rock and
stove a hole in her, disabling her so
she was unable to make the trip TO
Lewiston.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
The Antecedents Of Disease.

Among the antecedents of disease are
inertness in the circulation of the blood
an unnaturally attenuated condition o.
the physique, indicating that the life cur
rent is deficient in nutritive properties. a
wan. haggard look, inability to digest the
food, loss of appetite, sleep and strength.
and a sensation Of unnatural lanruor All
these may be regarded as among the In.
dicia of approaching disease, which will
eventually attack the system and overthrow
it, if it is not built up and fortified in ad.
vance. lnvigorate, then, without loss OF
time, making choice of the greatest vi.
talizing agent extant, Hosteters Stomach
Bitters, an elixir which has given health
and vigor TO myriads of the sick and de,
bilitated, which is avouched by physicians
and analysts to be pure as well as effec,
tive, which is immensely popular in this
country, and extensively used abroad. and
which has been for years past one of tho
leading medicinal staples of America.
April 5, 1878
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
Arrivals at the Luna House.

L. Q. Argabright valley; Frank Carr,
Gambrinus; John Hamilton, North Elk
James Dawson, Placerville; Mr.. Ward,
W. Z. q Co.'s agent; II, Fl. Knapp, Gam
brinus District; Chas. Kinney, Boise City
John M. Cannady, Pioneer; Thos. Elliott,
ouD Rosa; Samuel Hallett, Henry creek
,. nj. Trip, Sub Rosa; Len White, Pay
cite river; Frank Massick, Crooked river
j. b. Morse, North Elk; Ed Ryan, Forest
King; Jas. Monroe, Forest City; Frank
Cohen, Bear Run; I. Elicit, Jr., Sub Ro-
sal Alex sifers, Boise City; Henry Cliff
ton, Plowman's mills F. DUNCAN, Indian
creek Geo. Bennett, city; Jas. II. Haw-
ley, Quartzburg; O. Landreth, Bear Run ;
Fat Doyle, Spanish gulch; Dan Dobbs,
Centerville; John Fitzgerald, Placerville;
Mr.. Chamberlain, Salt Lake.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
Sold by Advertising.

A short time ago Mr.. Thos Barry
advertised in the World wagon and
harness for sale. A business man in
Boise City saw by the advertisement
that the wagon just suited him, and
he bought it. The cost of putting in
a card for two or three issues is only
a trihing amount, and persons who
have anything they want to dispose
of can soon make sale BY adver-
tising it in tho columns of the World.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14

II appears that at the Russo-Amer-
lean india rubber factory in st. Pc
tersburg, q speciality is made Of the
manufacture of air-bags for raising,
sunken vessels. These bags are gen.
orally OF a cylindrical form with
rounded extremities, about eighteen
feet in length, eleven feet in diameter.
with capacity of some 600, cubic
feet, and each bag can, it is calculat-
ed, raise a weight of sixty tons.
though the nominal limit is fifty.
These bags are made of three thick
nesses OF coarse canvas, thoroughly
impregnated and saturated with india.
rubber, and having also layers of the
latter material interposed. The.
valves, &c, are made of copper. and
the bag is protected by coarse net,
Its weight, when fully furnished, be-
Ing not far from 1000 pounds. The
efficiency of these bags has been sat-
isfactorily proved by repeated tests.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
Using Stray for FnAI.

The Russian Mennonite settlement
IN Nebraska has taught Americans
one trick worth knowing, at least.
Usually in the prairie States Of the
West there is considerable suffering
in extremely cold weather from lack
OF fuel. Farmers have been known
to burn their corn, from necessity.
People have frozen to death in some
OF the prize storms. But the Memo
mites introduced simple furnaces for
burning straw. One of these fur
naces only cost FIVE dollars for the
iron work, the rest being made of
brick or clay. By proper use tor
ofstraw will gomore than half as far as
a ton of coal for fuel. The Mennonites
twist the straw into small cakes. SO
that it burns as wood, and gives as
much heat. One of these furnaces.
supplied with fuel onl y three times a
day, will keep a Mennonite house
warm the whole twenty-four hours,
beside doing the cooking. AS coal is
costly, and wood still more so, and as
most Western farmers have hereto
fore wasted their straw, the Mennon-
lite plan of preparing and using it for
fuel is an economy which will prove
of great value to the prairie States,
and it is rapidly extending among
the Americans. OF course American
invention will speedily supply hand
machines for pressing the straw into
cakes and improved stoves for burn
ing it.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
A Religion for Women.

\ new religious sect called "Puri.
fiers" has arisen in the Greek church
in Russia. The Purifiers" make
women's rights a speciality. Their
main new doctrine is that all must
marry on coming OF age, and that the
wife S the head of the family, the
husband being required to confess ms
sins to his wife once n week. 1t is TO
bc feared that in this new church. as
in most of the old churches. the a,cm.
bers will be chiefly women.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-14
Russia Strikes Oil.

Yankees are 10 strike wells and re.
fine petroleum in the oil regions OF
Russia, on the western shore of the
Caspian sea. Agents, representing
one of the wealthiest firms in st. Pc.
tersbnrg, have recently made a tour
of the oil regions of Pennsylvania,
and have sent to Russia all the
machinery necessary for drilling and
sinking wells To operate this ma
chlnery "a number of experienced oil
drillers have been engaged, at the
head Of whom is George Adams, of
Oil City. These men are 10 be paid
large sums in gold The Caspian oil
wells average about six hundred feet
in depth. aud produce daily from forty
To two hundred barrels each. The
oil is very heavy, having a specific
gravity of thirty, aud is comparative
" free from sediment. 1t has TO be
carried many hundred miles up the
Caspian sea and the volga river To
Nuvgorod, whence it has to be shipped
by rail 10 st. Petersburg. The cost of
transportation has been so heavy that
American oil has always been sold at
lower rates than Russian oil. The
Car, realizing what an important in
dustry can be created in his country
by fostering the development of its oil
territory, has directed the imposition
of a tax equivalent to $3.50 a barrel
on all foreign oil.