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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-18

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI,
OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI.
Neat Session opens September 25, 1879.
Tuition is still
FREE TO ALL MISSISSIPPIANS.
not heretofore entered, arc hereaft charg
cd $50 tuition fee. Law Students pay $50
tuition tee.
EXPENSES PER SESSION, 9 MONTHS.
,,, months board at $40 1t to $l2 60 per
mOnLn ~ w to FIJI 50
9 months washing 81 to
2 months lights Csc to SOC : s to Z g
Incidental fee "..."........ II so to IL SO
sll3 IS sl4s 90
Students can board themselves upon the
'.1ness system" for less than ono half the
above rates.
The above estimate is reliable, and in
cludes everything except fuel (Which stu
dents buy from the University ut cost), and
furniture for their room and books and
clothing.
Some students of good standing got along
comfortably here last year on less than $75
The University is in excellent condition
and is steadily gaining in popularity and
Tho Faculty is complete. All the depart
ments. including the Law Department and
the Preparatory Department., arc in success
full operation. The location is healthy.
Never was a case Of yellow fever here.
tho Chancellor, ALEX. r. STEWART.
II. NJ. SULLIVAN,
As st Secretary Board Trustees.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-18

CHAMBERLAIN HUNT ACADEMY,
PORT GIBSON, MISS.
Originally
OAK AND COL l. GE,
j. II. LECkEY ............. ....Principal.
CdAttLES SOkO.......... ....... lst ASSISTANT.
REV. ID. A. PLANCK..........2d Assistant.
Will open on the
Third Monday Of September,
and continue until tho last Thursday in
Juno with tho usual holidays.
The course of Instruction will comprise
Science, Literature, Practical Business and
Ancient and Modern Languages.
TU1TloN-S2O per annum, payable semi
annually in advance. Board can be OBJ
tanned in private families at from SIS to $40
per month. For further particulars apply
to G. w. MCGINNIS,
n45-2m Secretary Board OF Trustees.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-18

The undersigned respectfully informs the
public that h0 has now ON hand q we'll So
tected stock Of Office and Household Esss,si-
cure, Wooden coDtns. Actasic Burial Caskcts.
CbOSss 1SinsnsissQs such as Handles, Plates,
Screws, etc. Terms, Cash. Store ON Grand
street, near tho Courthouse.
J. T.. PETERS.
Monroe. La. March IL, 1878. n26-tf
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-18

Students from other States, who have
not heretofore entered, arc herea fer charg-
cd $50 tuition fee. Law Students pay So
tuition tee.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
OUR LOST.
MAIGRET +. sANGsTER.

They never quite leave us, our friends who have
passed
Through the shadows of death to the sunlight above
thousand sweet memories are holding them fast
To the places they blessed with their presence and
love-
read.
Speak mutely though still with an eloquence rare,
And the songs that they sung, and dear words that
they said,
Still linger and sigh on the dcsolate air.
And oft when alone and as oft in the throng,
Or when evil allures sin draweth nigh,
\ whisper comes gently, nay do not the wrong"
And we feel that our weakness is pitied on high.
In the dew-thrcaded morn and the opaline eve,
When the children are merry crmsoned with
sleep.
We are comforted even as lonely we gricve,
For the thonght of their rapture orbids us to weep
We toll at our tasks in the burden and heat
Oflife's passionate noon They are folded i'll peace
1t is well. We rejoice that their heaven is sweet
And one day for US all the bitter will cease.
We too will go home DER the river of rest
As the strong and the lovely before us have gone
Our sun will go down in the beautiful west,
To rise in the glory that circles the throne
Until then we are bound by our love and our faith
To the saints who are walking in Paradise fair;
| They have passed beyond sight at tho touching O
death,
But they live, like ourselves in Gods infinite care.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

A COUNTY WITHOUT DRAM SHoP.-The
inhabitants of Edward county, Illinois,
do not support any temperance societies or
temperance lecturers, or spend their time
talking about temperance. They decided
twenty-five years ago that no liquor should
be sold in the county, and since that day
they have sent but one person to the peni.
tentiary, and he committed crime while
drunk with whiskey procured in an ad-
joining county; they support but two
paupers; and their Jail is empty most oi
the time. Their taxes are 80 per cent. lower
than the adjoining counties, and theil
terms of court occupy three days in the
year, while their tax rolls show that they
return more property than any other in the
State of equal population. This is a cas-
where the minority cannot complain of al
invasion of private rights, for the people arr
unanimously opposed to license under an,
circumstances. Families seek the locality
coming from other parts of the State, as
good place to bring up their children
When confronted with the statistics of thi
model county, even old topers admit ther
is something in it-but it evidently is nc
whiskey.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
Personal.

Colonel Fitzhugh, the digger man than
old Grant" has been elected doorkecpcr of
the Texas Senate.
Miss Clara Morris, who has been acting
in San Francisco, has gone to Southern
California for her health.
Representative Schleicher died so poor
that even the expenses of his late canvass
had to be borne by his friends.
Mr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes used but one
pen for all his literary work between 1857
and September, 1878. He has just sent it
to be repaired.
Representative Alexander II. Stephens is
regarded as the best whist-player in Con-
gress, and wrote the article on the game in
Johnsons Encyclopaedia.
When Ex-State Treasurer Mackey of
Pennsylvania died he was supposed to be
batchelor, but woman now comes forward
who says that she was married to him
twenty years ago.
The watch worn by Major Andre when
he was arrested as a spy is said to be in the
possession Of an Oshkosh wis. woman. It
is curious ovalshaped watch, inscribed
inside "John Andre, IVA"
General Green Clay Smith, a Union man
in Kentucky during the war, a Baptist
preacher and the last temperance candi-
date for President Of the United States, is
about to open an inn at Frankfort, KY.
Governor Wade Hampton has received so
many letters Of sympathy during his sick
ness that he has been unable to do more
than acknowledge them by wholesale in a
newspaper. Many of the letters were from
negroes and small children.
The late Mr.. Bayard Taylor, in his will,
desires that mementoes Of books or other
articles, such as may be selected by his
wife, shall be presented to his friends R. H
Stoddard, George H. Boxer, E. c. Stedman,
G. II. Putnam, James Lorimer Graham, jr.,
T. B. Aldrich and George E. Gouraud.
1t is related that the late Dean Richmond
once asked a would-be deadhead the
grounds of his application for a free pass.
D Simply because don't want to pay" he
s answered. The testy old railroad king at
once handed him a pass, and said " Sir,
t I respect you. You're the first deadhead
= that ever told the TRUTH
;. 1t is related of Secretary Evarts that, a:
he stood dressed in plain black broadclotE
r among the muchadorned foreign diplo
matists at the Presidents reception thu
e other day, an eight-year,old boy who hat
accompanied gentleman into the room
It pointed to the Secretary, saying, "Graud
e pa, is that man there too poor to buy
dress ?"
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

CHANGE OF CIRCUMsTANCEs.-"S Save me,
Doctor, and I'll give you thousand dol
lars"
The Doctor gave him remedy that eased
him, and he called out:
"Keep at it, Doctor, and l will give you
check for five hundred dollars"
In half an hour more he was able to sit
up, and he calmly remarked:
"Doctor, l feel like giving you a fifty
dollar bill
When the Doctor was ready to go the
sick man was up and dressed. He followed
the Doctor to the door and said:
essay, Doctor, send in your bill the first
of the month"
When,six months had been gathered to
times bosom, the Doctor sent in a bill
amounting to five dollars. He was pressed
to cut it down to three. After so doing he
sued to get it, got judgment, and the
patient put in a stay of execution.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

Miss Josie Baker, daughter of Professor
o. H. Baker of Indianola, H., has recently
been appointed tutor of the Greek
language at Simpson College in that place.
She is only sixteen years old, but reads and
writes Greek huently. When but eight
years old she had read three books oi
Homer, as we'll as the other works in Greek
which usually precede that author, and al
the age of fourteen years she had made O
complete lexicon of a tragedy of Sophocles
She is also equally proficient in Latin and
more or less familiar with French and Ger
man.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

The situation in the coal regions about
Pottsville is assuming an alarming aspect,
much more so than has been the case since
1875. The cause of the trouble amongst
the strikers is solely attributable to the
secret organization known as the knights
of Labor" which is the fomenting element
breeding disorder in the district. By many
it is feared the situation will ripen into riot
and thereby necessitate vigorous resort
to measures to quell the dissatisfaction.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
WHOLE NO. 1,245.
THE GIRL FOR ME.

Just fair enough to be pretty,
Just gentle enough to be sweet
Just saucy enough to be witty,
Just dainty enough to be neat
Just tall enough to be graceful,
Just slight enough for fay,
Just dress enough to be tasteful
Just merry enough to be gay.
Just tears enough to be tender,
Just signs enough to he sad,
Tones soft enough to remember,
Your heart through the cadence made clad
Just meek enough for submission,
Just bold enough to be brave,
Just pride enough for ambition,
Just thoughtful enough to be grave.
y tongue that can talk without hGrming,
Just mischief enough 10 tease.
Manners pleasant enough to be charming,
That put you at once at your ease
Generous enough, and kind-hearted,
Pure as the angels above:
Oh, from her may never be parted,
For such is the maiden I love.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
For the Smyrna Times.
For The Smyrna Times.
acur HATH DONE WHAT SHE
0 COULD"

...oed oft rejected and despised
Ths blessed Saviour came,
lido ~ the few who followed him,
polieving in his name.
r;re gentle Mary worshiping'
w, w;tb mingled hopes and fears,
,,rbile she knelt low at his feet
As cso bsthed them with her tears.
Only an act of sympathy,
rrpressive of love;
- "a that which angels know
In brighter worlds above;
n.,,ore who saw their unbelief,
II Their hatred understood,
said with reprOof, let her alone,
She hath done what she could"
A., woman's love last atthe cross
On which the Saviour died,
r;rst at the tomb where he arose,
Immortal. Glorifed!!
po-bsps in that triumphant hour
She better understood,
Tho meaning of the blessed words,
she hath done what she could"
sill Woman's love is often tried,
Like Marys love of old,
I'll, from the dross ofselfishness
Refined like purest gold.
For those who toll from day to day
wsudged for others good,
Our saviour hath inscribed the words.
she hath done what she could"
Wbaa we at last are gathered home,
Together round the throne,
Shall we not our Redeamer know,
Know him as we are known.
pesrer than praise earth can beStow,
Recorded for the good;
Oh! may we hear the joyful words.
"she hath done what she could"
SMYRNA, January %, 1879.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

The disputed question whether Abraham
Lincoln's parents were ever married has
been settled. In Lannon's "Life of Lin.
coin" an effort was made to show that
owing to their extreme poverty the parents
of Lincoln never were legally married, be-
cause, according to the laws of the State of
Kentucky, it would have been necessary to
file bond to guard the State against an
oversupply of paupers, and this bond they
could not procure. Researches made by
Ex.Secretary Bristow show, however, tha
they did file such bond and that the
marriage was legally performed.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

According to some agricultural statisti-
clan the United States has 100000 more
farmers than it had four years ago. 1t is
said that twenty-five million acres of land
have within that time been placed under
culture, and allowing one hundred acres to
each farm, the number Of new followers of
the plough are as above stated. If this
statement be true, it would 60 to argue
that farming is not SO unpopular as some
would have us believe; although with us
the farmer boys are disposed to turn their
attention more to law, divinity, physic and
loafng.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
JAN. 10th, 1879.

1t is rumored at Lansing, Mich, that
Senator Christiancy will resign his seat in
the United States Senate, to accept the
mission to Peru. In which contingency
there is hardly a doubt of the return of
Ex-senator lack. Chandler to his old place
in the Senate.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

We are told that business men feel
good because they have reached bottom at
last" We have no advices from the thou
sands who "reached bottom" so far below
the surface that they can never hope to
move in business circles again. There is
no resumption for them.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

A curiosity hunter has wooden image
which he calls The Idol of the Heathen,"
and by its side is a gold dollar labelled
"The Idol of the Christian" Some one
has suggested that it be called "The Idol
of Sound Money Doctrine" Upon the
same principal a greenbacl1 should be
dropped alongside and called "The Idol Of
the Few
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

After the 4th of next March the United
States Senate will consist of forty.two Demo
Gratis, thirty-three Republicans and one In
dependent, Davis, OF Illinois.) The Lower
House will be composed of one hundred
and twenty-nine Republicans, one hundred
and forty-nine Democrats and ten Nationals
with five vacancies to fill. This gives the
Democrats a majority of about twenty.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
For the Smyrna Times
Temperance Sentiment So years Ago

The following preamble and resolutions
were passed by the Quarterly Meeting Con-
ference of Smyrna Circuit, on the 2Sth of
January 1926:
"The official members of the NJ. Z.
Church on Smyrna Circuit, composing the
Quarterly Meeting Conference, taking into
consideration the baneful effects which at
tend the indiscriminato distribution of ard
ent spirits during what is called electioneer-
ing campaigns, and feeling it duty, so far
as in them lies, to stem this torrent of vice
and dissipation, and believing that the
united exertions of the members of said
church will go far toward suppressing this
enormous evil, have therefore
Resolced, That we will discountenance
the system adopted by candidates short
time previous to an election in this State o
treating the people with ardent spirits.
Resolved That we will not vote for any
man or set Of men who we know to engage
in this pernicious practice or to emplo!
others therein, and, so far as our infuenc,
extends, we will try to prevail on the peo
pie to withhold their support from sucl
persons"
The Quarterly Conference was composed
fJohn Appleton, Piner Mansfield, Ephrain
jefferson, Samuel Boyer, VIM. Wilkinson
Thomas Thompson, VIM. Mcdowell, Mill
Records, VIM. Deakyne, George Deakyne
BENZ. Hacket, Robert Pierce, John Conner
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

A four-year.old girl, left alone with an
infant in Urbana, O., said to the mother on
her return: ooh, babys all broke" The
baby was dead, having fallen from the
little girls arms and had its neck broken.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

The rose of beauty crowns her brow, her
bright eyes gleam askance; at hide-and-
seek on either cheek the roguish dimples
dance.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

Don't make the stove cuspadore, as
many chewers do. Alasl tits true, tits
spitty spitty It's, tits true.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

A girl, married at Westfeld, Mass, only
two weeks ago, has applied for a divorce on
the ground that her husband has thick
l;Dc
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

Happiness consists not in possessing
much, but in being content with what we
possess. He who wants little has always
enough.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

Quiet home,joys, which the home itself
can produce and sustain, are the best.
Here we plead for domestic manufacture.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

"The year begins. A leaf is turned,
But it is turned in vain;
Unless its lesson is well learned,
It will soon be turned back again"
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

A mans success in life depends more
upon his character than upon his talents
or his genius.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

Our opinion of man is likely to be de-
termined by his opinion of us.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

Too many houses for sale and to let on
Buena Vista avenue.
Smyrna times., 1879-02-05

A cracked bell is never sound.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29
HoUsEKEEPERs AND THEIR SER
WANTS

Housekeepers all over the country will
be interested to learn that the ladies OF
Chicago have tackled the problem OF re-
forming the relations between domestic
servants and their employers, and pro-
mise to give some practical solution OF
the difficulties Of making the relations
more permanent and satisfactory.
They have determined that the evils Of
the present system there as elsewhere,
grow out OF the inequalities OF thewages
paid in the same community. There is
no market price, so To speak. There
are small families who pay their girls Il
per week, and again there are large
families who pay $50 or 500 Tor the
same service. Thus a girlwho isreceiving
s2finds that a girl is the next house is re-
ceiving - for precisely the same work,
she becomes demoralizei and demands
an increase or takes French leave.
Thus servants are shifted about from
pillar to post, out Of place more than
half the time, and employers are often
deprived of help when needing il most,
and are compelled to put up with the
ANNOYANCE OF new and uuskillcd hands
in doing their work.
The proposition is, therefore, to cstab-
lish uniform rates of wages, So as 20 pre-
vent dissatisfaction among the servants,
which of course must b. reached by 4
concert Of action on the part Of the
housekeepers Of any community IN
which the attempt is made.
In cases where servants are particu-
larry deserving, and who are really entI-
tied to more than the average servant,
it is proposed to pay the extra earnings
at the end OF year or fixed term OF SER
vice.
The proposition is to apply business
principles to the employment Of dOmes-
tic help, just as merchants 10 in hiring
their clerks, not asking them, How
much do YOU want but telling them,
81 will pay YOU SO much and no more
Wages are TO Ice scaled according to
quality and quantity oi service demand
ell. and are to be paid monthly instead
of weekly, with written contracts and
forfeits for nOn-fulfillment OF its terms.
The contract and wages account are to
be kept a little blank book; the en-
ploye is not to leave abruptly with her
place unsupplied, and when she does
leave, il she has done good service, is to
have a recommendation written for her
in her blank-bOOk.
1t is probable that the law OF de
mand and supply which is the import
ant factor in every department OF BUSH
ness, will also have to be provided for
in this, ami will unsettle many calcula-
tons in the enterprise, hut we don't see
but the plan may help to improve the
situation among hOusekeepers If 1t IS
once fairly inaugurated in any commu-
nifty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29

IT will be noted with some surprise
that the Republican organs of Ohio are
picking out the men for Governor Eos
TER to appoint to office in the place OF
the few Democrats now in under Gov
crnor BISHOP. This is very singular. 1t
is scarcely six months since the whole
Republican press was sounding the
widest alarm, because the Republican
otiice-holders around the Senate at
Washington were turned away by the
Democratic majority, and the strong
point was that experienced men, who
understand their business, ought to be
retained. There is no rule in politics,
however, that is known to work both
ways.-PhaadelpLid Times.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29

"TUE Democratic party says the
Washington Post, chs organized in but
two STATED in this Union, New York and
Indiana. The Republican party is eff
GENTLY organized and splcndidly discip-
lined i'm every one Of the Northern
States. 1t was 50 splendidly and auda-
ciously othcered in 1876 as to be able to
steal Oregon from us without even
alarming our sentinelS, to overcome the
vote OF California by systematic series
of frauds in san Francisco, and finally,
in the garish light OF day, after making
boastiul announcement OF its purpose,
10 rob us Of twelve electoral votcs-So
fairly cast for Mr.. TUDEN that all the
world took notice of the fact-and turn
81 poor a piece of clay rs Mr.. HAYES
from a minority into majority candi-
date. The sum OF all Of these DECLARE
tons and observations, therefore, is
this:
III the Democratic party is 70 succeed
in 1850, it must organize efficiently and
now
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29
sEAsoNARLE SENTIMENTS.

Is spite of the much talked-abOut bus
mess boom, the retail fruit trade in
Wheeling is almost wholly at stand
still.
TIE boy who saves up his money
from now until the depth OF winter to
buy q pair of club skates will discover
when it is too late that he is miSs-Sled
youth.
SOME one may have commented on
the fact, but ii So it has escaped our no.
thee. that there is Il resemblance between
the cold weather and Wheeling creek.
Cold weather has come, and the creek
has scum, too.
\ CERTAIN young journalist heard
some parties on the street discussing
the first snow OF the season, and he
stopped in his mad career in search Of
enough water to drown him To remark
i'm agonizing accents that his girl had
uttered the frs mo OF the season the
night before. The indignant crowd did
MT interfere with his search.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29
rha NORTH Pole and Equator

Are not more widely distinct than the standard
tonic stimulanta and Alternative, Hostettcr's Stom-
ach Bitters, and the cheap and ferry local BIT
ters which INSCRIPTIONS vendors foiSt upon the
unwary as medicated preparations with rene
dial properties. The latter are usually composed
in the main of half rectifed alcoholic eNciiantS'
with some wretched drug combined 10 disguise
their real flavor and are perfectly runi0uS to the
coats of the stomach. Hostetter's BtierS, on the
contrary, has for its basis choice spirits Of abso-
lutte purity, and this is modified aud combined
with medicinal extracts OF rare excellence and
botanical origin. which both inyigoUte and
regulate the bowels, stomach and liver. lhey
effect a radical change i'm the diSordcred physi-
cal econ Omy, which is manifested by speedy
improvement in the general health.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29

INGERSoLL does not believe in COP,
but he does in GRANT, and expresses a
desire to see him President. This raw
ing infdel is a Republican and seems
anxious to serve the party, and will i'm
press his followers as far as he can with
his views. The GRANT boomers ought
to take him along to Chicago; he could
boss the job elegantly.-Pdtsburgh Post.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29

An exchange says that partial can
vass of the members-eleCt OF the Ohio
Legislature has been made, with refer
ence to the choice Tor United States Sen
ator TO succeed THURMAN. OF 80 Re
publican Senators and Representatives
interviewed, 81 are for GARFIELD. This
is u less than majority OF the RePub-
lican caucus. The others are divided
between SHERMAN, TAFT, DENNIsoN,
MATTHEWS, EGGLESToS, and others.
The declination of Secretary SHER-
MAN and CHARLES FOSTER to become
candidates has greatly increased
the probabilities OF GARFIELD's election.
Ju Ige TAFT and STANLEY MATHEWS both
have strength in Hamilton county, and
will be in the field rs candidates, but
the fact that the other United States
Senator. Mr.. PENDLETON, is also from
Hamilton county will not help them.
There is a general feeling that GAR
yrELD can be Of more benefit to the
country and his party in the House
than in the Senate, but that will not
seriously interfere with his success, il
he wants the Scnatorship. Ex-Gov-
ernor WILLIAM DESNIsoN will make a
sharp contest.