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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

The country press is not without Il
poet. Morgan, of the Carroll Conser-
vativc reels off this leap-ycar poem:
Thirty and a tally one,
Her faded checks caressing,
no bloom of life forever gone,
Leap year tho forlon bless
She puils and paints, and shouts with CLEO,
" Old fel, you've got to marry NO.
And this from our DeSiard street CO.
temporary rhymes we'll, also:
OF all the comforts of this life
My doting heart could bring her,
There wns nothing ever pleased my wife
Like that machinc-the Singer.
In II different strain some poet, to
fame unknown, writes thus:
Young Fred, a bashtul yet persistent
swain,
Was very much in love with Mary Jane.
One night she told him, in hor tenderest
cit is not good for man to be alone.''
Said Fred, ''Just SO, you darling little elf;
Two often thought of that same thing
Then said the lass, whiIc Fred was all
agoE,
You ought to buy yourself a terrier
dog"
Hc took the hint, and left.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

"A disease resembling measles, fire.
quently proving fatal, has appeared in
Kansas. 1t is believed to have been
brought from the South by refugee
negroes.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
CENTRAL HOUSE. .,
COR. JACKSON & GRAMMoNT SITS,
MONROE,L LA.

boat landing, sud provided with superior
accommodations, is now open>to the travelling
public. gz9-Sample Room f0rConmercial
travellers. d. b. TROUSDALE. !. =.
((Formerly of the Monroe House,) .
Feb. ~. 1880. Proprietor.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

He saw q carpet hanging out
Upon the clothes line in the rear
OF that fine mansion, and he thought:
"The folks are out, the coast is clear,
I'll bag that Brussels If can"
He did, and making no delay,
Adown the alley, in the dusk,
The carpet-bagger tramped away.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Speaker Ogden Let his pistol fall in
the House the other day, and the pistol
was discharged. Bob, like Buck Fam
shaw, is bound to have peace.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

The bill to pension the survivors Of
the Mexican war is about to be intro
duced in Congress again. When it is
brought up we will be likely to get
another glimpse at the life, character
and public services Of Jefferson Davis.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Mr.. Bret Harte, 1t is reported, is
about to resign his Consulate and return
to America. The German climate has
not agreed with him and he has been
far from well. -. l"',- -
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

IMPROVED PROPERTY FOR SALE
One-fourth square in Harris addition to
Monroe, with two neat cottages-choice
fruit and shrubbery. Will be sold sepa-
rately if desired.
One house will DO for rent on first of
January, 1880, if not sold.
Apply to J. T.. BosTICK, on the premises
or Mt tho Railroad shop.
Monroe, La, December 5, 1879. st
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
MONROE FERRY.

MoNSoH fhH'tH'
Ferriage Mt the Monroe ferry, on Sun
days, for carriages and buggies, has been
fixed at half rates.
Pleasure skiffs Kept for hire at all times.
T. J. LARKIN.
Monroe, Jan. 30, 1850. If Lessee.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
nR. EyARrs AND TIE HORIZONS.

Mr.. Evarts is said to have expressed an
intention to prosecute all foreigners who
may henceforth emigrate to Utah and there
enter into polygamous relations. This de-
termination is said to have been reached
upon learning that large party of Nor
mon converts are on their way to the
United States from Europe, and that they
have been gathered together since the is
sue Of the Secretary's circular to the Eu-
ropean Governments. Ii Mr.. Eyarts can
extirpate polygamy by such methods, well
and good but we. confess that the pro-
grarnme appears to us to be full of diff
culties. In the first place the new arrivals
will almost certainly refrain from carrying
out any polygamous intentions they may
entertain, until they reach Utah. And hav-
inc reached Utah it would seem that they
would be beyond the reach of the Govern
ment. At least that is the impression
conveyed by the efforts of the latter to
inforce its laws against polygamy in the
Territory. Prosecutions there have been,
it is true, but it is very certain that they
have been without result SO far as the ex-
tirpation of polygamy is concerned. In
fact they appear to have been abandoned
as useless. and that is the view most likely
to be taken OF such proceedings by those
who have studied the Mormon problem.
1t is in truth very difficult matter to pro-
coed against community. and especially
in relation which enters SO deeply into
their religious beliefs. Right or wrong it
is impossible to prevent them from regard
ing all such measures as prosecutions,
and persecution, as everyone knows, al.
ways strengthens faith. This Is what
makes the task of the Government so diff
cult, and this is why we cannot believe
that Mr.. Evarts has it in his power to
effect anything against polygamy in the
present instance.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
R1BLE COPYRIGHT.

A new and curious test of the morality
of American publishers is about to be made.
The revision of the Bible, which has been
proceeding for some years in England, APP
proaches its completion, and the revised
edition is about to be published by the
great publishers Macmillan s Co. Of
course new edition of the Bible involves
an enormous outlay and an equally large
profit, supposing the original publisher is
allowed to retain the monopoly. But it is
feared that in this country the temptation
to issue piratical edition will be too much
for the moral stamina OF some of our lesser
publishers. It is said that the American
Bible Society has agreed not to republish
the revision without permission, and that
the Baptist Society has promised that it
will not ''pirate the Holy Scriptures. "
But it is ominous that arguments are being
brought forward TO show that the Bible is
the common property of Christendom,
while it ia further contended that the re-
vision being foreign publication is not IN
titled to protection in this country. The
fact batfive American scholars have been on
the revision committee throughout may
perhaps afford ground for claiming copy
right in the United States. There can be
no doubt that the special contributions of
these American citizens could be copy
righted, as has been already done with the
Encyclopedia Britannica. But while such
an arrangement would doubtless effectually
prevent all pirating, since it would be i'm
possible to print the Bible with any parts
omitted, it may be questioned whether the
necessity of inserting the names of the
American reviewers opposite their work
would not mar the appearance of the orgi-
nal publication. AS the case stands, the
indications are that the new revision Of the
Bible will be pirated as soon as it appears,
and that Macmillan 8 Co. will have to
make up their minds to forego all profit on
their enterprise in the United States It
is pity that this should be SO, but the
opportunity is too good one for the pr
rates to let pass, and moreover, they seldom
find SO many plausible excuses for their
professional thieving.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
MINING NOTES.

Large supplies OF timber are being cut
around Port Wine for the Benanzs and
Virginia mines.
A ledge recently struck at Willow Creek,
near Paradise, Nevada, Is said to assay
from S265 to s., 500 per ton.
The French Hydraulic Company is re-
pairing their ditch and fume, preparatory
for active operations next ISL.
The Qaeen and the Union drifting claims,
Sierra county. are being worked By eighteen
men, and yield well this season.
A new contract will soon be lei by the
Highland Mary Company, Sierra county,
for running of more tunnel back INTO the
hill at Wahoo.
The new mining district, called Mojave, 10
San Bernardino county, IS beginning to
attract attention by the abundance and
richness of its ores. They are black oxide
of silver, in copper-Stain quartz. They
are located ITO miles east Of Santa Ana.
The Folsom Telegraph says G. w
Hammer, who resides near Alder Creek,
while out hunting one day last week found
| piece Of gold-beaTIng quartz the SIZE OF
hens egg that was literally studded with
gold, supposed to be worth $40 or more and
really the finest specimen Of the kind we
/ have ever seen.
An important strike was recently made
in the Josie Green NINE. in None county.
| The ore vein was struck in an incline that
was being sunk on the ledge. 1t is about
| fifteen inches wide. of the most beau
tiful free gold quartz. A considerable
quantity of 1t was brought to the IHdeu
Office, every piece fairly glisteniag with
| the precious particles. The incline has
! been sunk on the ore body, which con-
times to improve IN width.
| Several boxes of rich specimens were
/ brought up from the Rocky Bar yesterday,
says the Grass Valley onion of September
| ID, coming from the same part of the ledge
that produced the rich rock last week.
! The rock was not equal III richness to the
! best that has been taken out, but 1t was of
the genuine bonanza kind, that ton of it
would sum up into the thousands. The
Rocky Bar Company has evidently drop
ped on the richest gold streak that has
been found in this district in many day.
The Mammoth Bar mine, on the middle
fork of the American river, rear Auburn,
is represented to be giving very. encourage
ing prospects. This claim is on portion
of the river bed that never could be worked
in early days OF river mining, because of
the great depth of the gravel and the i'm
possibility OF getting to the bottom of the
channel without tie aid of deep working
by machinery. The ground has been con
tinuously held for many years by Grass
Valeyans, and last season an incorporated
company was formed to work the claim
under the above name
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
INsINcERITY IN THE PULPIT.

The Rev. E. E. Hale has an article in
the September North AmericCn ReUie0 on
90 Insincerity in the Pllpit." Coming from
clergyman such a paper is necessarily
more interesting than the criticism OF
layman would be, since it is to be pre-
sumed that the writer has special sources
of information. The burden of Mr.. Hale's
accusations against his brethren is that they
do not say all they believe, in the pulpit !;
that they make many mental reservations;
that they not infrequently preach dogmas
which neither they nor their congregations
believe; that in fact they have become de-
moralized by the advances of Science, and
that while great many of them have fol-
lowed scientific progress and historical
criticism to the verge Of skepticism, If
not beyond the verge, great many more
have endeavored to effect a compromise by
quietly dropping the discredited dogmas,
and preaching generalities which demand
no precise definition. Mr. Hale asserts
that it is the duty of the preacher " to say
what he beliyes, not what he wishes to
"believe, or thinks it would be well to
''believe." And he continues 1t seems,
" now, as if the country at large was be-
I" ginning to doubt whether the pulpit does
make such utterance. In one quarter
" and another, and this in no dainty
terms il is called half-hearted. Preach
ers are called towards and insin-
cere. It is for the organs of
orthodoxy to consider hew far they can
" bear to diminish the power of the pulpit.
"They ought to know whether its
" dogmatisms have any such power as to
" make it safe to risk the contempt of those
"who hear. They ought to ask themselves
"whether men now come to church with
the eagerness with which men once came,
"or whether the word spoken from the
Hpulpit now commands the sort of assent
sit once commanded. The ques-
ation is, Does the American people, on
Lle WHOie, DSuSNe bHdI thS PISdSu-
Gers say all they know?' This is a
Every grave question. In proportion
Gas orthodoxy shirks it, or as it
''fails to amend its ways, in that pro-
"portion will the American pulpit,
$50 far as orthodoxy controls it, cease
''to be the power which it once was, and
(which it wishes to be-" This is plain
talk. and shows that Mr.. Hale at least
believes in the justice of his criticism and
the need for reform. But it is more diff
cult to suggest remedy than to point
out the disease, and in point of fact he
fails to suggest remedy. For if, as he
intimates, many preachers no longer
believe the things which they preach,
it would seem Improbable from an
ecclesiastical standpoint for them to avow
their disbelief openly before their congre-
cations. Such avowals would very prob
ably dissolve the congregations, but it is not
reasonable to suppose that they would
strengthen confidence in the sincerity or In
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.
S,Trpn.y SEPTEMBER Ii, 1850.
THE WEEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION is issued to-day-that is, Its
second part of eight pages sent out, for the UNION
annaars twice each week, each part consisting OF
.;,ht naoes, Thus each WEEKLY UNION embraces
SIXTEEN nares of choice news, critical and business
matter for home office and iresde, street car farm
and sbop. Matters occurring between Friday and
wednesday the subscriber to the WEEKLY UNION
obtains full knowledge OF in the seml-weekly Of
Wednesday, and occurrences happening between
Wednesday and Saturday are reported to the patron
of the paper in the semi-weekly of Saturday. Its
departments, which are recognized as leading, are
Editorial writing upon leading social, political, sci
'entifc and other topics of the day; agricultural
comments, selections and news telegraphc, coast
news and market quotations; literary matters, EN-
bracins book reviews. religious, scientific art
fashion, mechanical, health and other matters !;
political news notes of development, progress and
production educational religious and other notes.
art. music. popular science and industrial news !;
Paris, London, New York, Oregon, Arizona, State,
coast, Chicago and other correspondence; tele-
graphic news European, coast and Eastern Pacific
coast news; mining news; market and stock re-
ports commercial review; local intelligence; So
ciety notes fiction and poetry, etc The WEEKLY
UNION has a constantly extending circulat on and
has grown with unexampled rapdity.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
A PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES.

of, " says Mr.. Barham Zineke in the
Contemporary Rerie,c, next year, in max.
=" ing our returns for the census, every
g householder had to state whether be
" lived in freehold house of his own. or
Z" in leasehold or rented house, it would
50 be seen that in London, with its 600,
g O00 inhabitants, in all our large towns,
I" and generally in our rural districts,
" alike in England. Scotland and Ireland,
&c the proportion of those who live in
houses of their own would be SO small as
" to oblige us to feel that in this matter
q" we had sunk into a category occupied
by ourselves alone, that of being,
% throughout all the world, whether
''civilized or uncivilized, the only dis
"homed nation" Millions of Englishmen,
Scotchmen and Irishmen live in country
which they call their own, yet no single
acre of which can belong to them. Mr..
Henry George in his work on Progress
"and Poverty has cited the peculiar con-
dition of landholding in England as dem
onstrating the fact that men will improve
land to which they cannot obtain title in
fee, but Mr.. Zincke states some facts
which initiate against this argument, for
he points ont that though leasehold land is
improved, it is scarcely ever improved ,oeA
Houses are built upon it by the score,
but they are merely built to let, and there
is neither architectural beauty nor soldity
nor even comfort about them. Thousands
of them are made alike in all respects.
There is no individuality about them, none
OF that evidence of painstaking and pride
which is sure to be shown when men
build on their own ground. In fact the
experience of the English seems to justify
the conclusion that absolute ownership Of
land is necessary to the development
of any high standard of architecture
or comfort, and that the Ieasehold system,
which is what Mr.. George proposes, tends
to produce careless and slovenly building,
and to destroy alike conscientiousness and
the desire for excellence in any direction.
1t may be said that the example of En-
gland proves how well nation can do
without general ownership of land, but to
that it may be replied that the effects OF
the monopoly of land have by this time
produced results so mischievous that
radical change in the tenure of land is
among the necessities of the age, aud can
not be long deferred.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
AN ODD STAGE ROBBERY.
a correspondents of the RzcoRD- UNION,
-4;.. 49,, AGO., Nv sov-s

a correspondents Of the REcoRD- UNION,
writing from Aurora, New, says
The first week in September there was
an odd stage robbery over on the Aurora
and Bodie road The BeIleyiile stage was
first robbed By two highwaymsn. They
then went over to Dalzell's and robbed the
passing stage. The same night (friday)
went eight miles toward Wellington and
waited for the down-stage from Bodie. On
that stage was Foley, the shotgun guard,
on the outside, and Tom Woodruff on the
inside, with number OF passengers and
plenty of bullion, and BIessrs. UlTich and
Billings following in buggy. The rob-
bers built forts or walls OF stone on either
SIDE of the road and secreted themselves
behind them. IS the stage came up they
demanded halt, and began to ire from
pistols. One of the shots killed the leader
of the stage team, and another shot passed
through Tobey's arm. A robber then
rushed mp on each side OF the horses toward
the coach, when Tobey fred, blowing, as ne
believed, the head of Of one Of the robbers.
Woodruff sprang out and fired ~ she other
robber twice, who howled with pain and
ran off into the sagebrush and fell. The
supposition was that both the robbers were
dead, and so Woodruff, Ulrieh and Billings
took Tobey on the blackboard buggy
and drove on to get Tobey's wound
dressed, leaving the driver to get the dead
horse out of the way alone, and come on
with the bullion and passengers. While
the driver was at work with his disorgan-
lied team the robber, who had fallen as if
dead and had successfully played postum,
got up, and taking the express boxes,
coolly marched off with the boxes in one
hand and his gun in the other, and called
out repeatedly, F" Partner, where are you ?"
rot knowing that his fellow -highwayman
was dead. This is reckoned one Of the
checklist robberies on record. The name
Of the dead robber was Horton.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
TIE DznAED FOR WINE IN FRANCE


According to the latest authorities the
plyKo1erz has completely triumphed over
the French Vineyards. Al remedies have
failed and the present estimate is that IN
few years the yield Of the French vines viii
cease altogether, aud the country will be
dependent upon importation for its entire
supply Of wine. 1t Is true that when
American vines have been planted they
have resisted the phyllo7era successfully,
and proved healthy, but the substitution
Of American vines is necessarily a work
of time, and it must take many years to
bring up the new. grapes to the standard Of
the old ones. In the meantime this rs the
opportunity Of America, and especially Of
California. The value Of imported wines
IN France has risen fromS1 600 900 to $34,
900, 600. Italy, Spain, Algiers and Hungary
are our rivals, and none OF them can
produce as good vintages. The California
wines are now bought largely for mixing,
by European yintuers, and considerable
market OF this kind exists. They need,
however, to be pressed Tor what they are on
their merits, and it cannot be doubted that
If this is judieiously done the great i'm
provements which have been effected dur
ing the last five years in the quality OF our
wines viii secure them a ready sale in the
French market. France must go abroad
for her wines hencefOrth, for at least a
generation, and perhaps for half a century
or more, and California ought to be able to
supply the larger part of this demand, and
thus establish a permanent and extensive
Yiticultural industry
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11

fronts him with fac smile engraving of it,
demonstrating to all who know his hand
writing that he wrote it. Thus his haste
to escape from damaging exposure has
plunged him into still more damaging
one, and in endeavoring to save himself
and hia party from the stigma of disloyalty
he has branded himself as willful liar.
No doubt the letter was very imprudent
one for him to write at such tine, but
no doubt he stated fact in it, and one
which it is interesting and perhaps I'M
portant for the country to know. AS for
his own reputation for veracity, that is
sacrificed, and worst of all, he has only en-
phasized the sinister significance of his i'll
starred letter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11

the utility of the preachers. The chief
difficulty is that the doubts of so many
preachers involve the very foundations of
the schemes of religion they support, and
that therefore if they should say all they
believed they would have to say that they
did not believe in the efficiency of their
own preaching. This consideration appears
to offer an almost insuperable objection
to the adoption OF that intrepid and
unreserved candor which Mr.. Hale
recommends. That frankness might, in
the opinion of some, be salutary
in regard to the enfranchisement of con-
gregations, but to such as still believe that
dogmatic theology ought to be taught, it
would seem that the prescription of Mr..
Hale would be,suicidal. Inslncerity in the
pulpit, if it exists, is no doubt deplorable
and discouraging, but if it is, as alleged,
due to the failure of all attempts to over
come the force of scientific discovery, there
appears to be no sufficient remedy for it,
compatible with the maintenance of the
pulpit as moral and civihzing agency.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
REI.rzHooYER,s LETTER.

1t appears that Congressman Beltzhoo-
yer, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, wrote
a letter in which he stated that pension
bills do not find much favor with the pres
emit Democratic House, and that the rebel
General who is at the head of the Pension
Committee in the Senate is still more
averse to allowing such bills favor. TWAS
certainly somewhat remarkable thata Demo-
cratic Congressman should have made such
statement, because there can be no doubt
Of its truth, and also because all Demo-
Gratis are supposed to understand, without
being told, why Southern Congressman
are coldly disposed toward bills pensioning
Union soldiers. Mr.. Beltzhoover, how
ever, made the mistake OF declaring this
letter to be forgery, when it was pub
lished, and now the New York Tribune con.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

Baron Huebler is said to have stated
that the close alliance between Germany
and Austria is the inevitable issue of an
attempt made year ago by Russia to Sc
cure French alliance against Germany.
NJ. Waddingtoh not only declined the pro-
position, but proceeded to inform Bismarck
of it, and the Chancellor, who has never
had any love for Gortschakoff, at once took
steps to checkmate the Muscovite diplo-
matist by ratifying a compact with the
house of Hapsburg. 1t is quite possible
that this story is true, and it is also by no
means unlikely that the German-Austrian
alliance may before long compel Bismarck
to take more active part in the Eastern
question than Germany had counted upon,