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The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13
Apothegms that the Turks Find COM
fort In.

A libation / better than a po-
tation; wine is often better split
than drank.
A lie is desperate cowardice:
it is to fear man and brave God
Lovers are apt to hear through
their eyes; but the safest way is
to see through their ears.
All young animals are merry
and all old ones grave. An old
woman is the only ancient AMI
NAL thas is ever frisky.
It is better to do the idlest
thing in the world than to sill
idle for half an hour.
Drink never changes, but only
shows our natures.
In the whole Hebrew Die
tionary there is no word to eX.
press nature and philosophy.
What a dread of death must
some people have who would
rather be dying than dead.
Man must be initiated in the
mysteries OF iniquity in order the
more safely to pursue the paths
of virtue.
Better to have ones feet dirty
than his hands.
The more a person wants the
less will do him good.
A kindness can never be can
celled, not even by repaying it
Algebra is the metaphysics O.
arithmetic.
Desire is in youth a passion
in age vice.
To have respect for ourselve:
guides our morals; to have e de
ference for others governs oul
manners.
An epicure desires but one
dish; the glutton would have
two:
The four characteristics o
mank;nd-To build q house, te
raise a tree, to write a book ano
to have q child.
When a misfortune is impend'
ing I cry, "God forbid:" but
when it falls upon me I say" "doo
be praised!"
A mans fortune should be The
rule for his sparing not spending
Extravaganza may be supported
not justified, by afauence.
A sober man when drunk has
the same kind of stupidity about
him that q drunken man has
when sober.-[From the Koran
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

WHAT They THINK They CAN
Do.-There are q good many
men who think they could turn
ont better newspapers than are
made by others, whose labor in
that direction would result about
like that OF the tramp who was
hired for a week on trial by a
wspaper proprietor. After
hauging around three days, do
ing nothing, he was accused oi
Incompetence He Indignantly
replied: II can edit yer darned
old paper if you'll jest tell me
where to get the stuff to put into
it" ."-[Sylacuse Sunday Times.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

Leadville boasts of aristocratic
walters. At the Grand Hotel ia
an ex-member of the New Jersey
Legislature, whose letters bears
the perfx of "Hon." At the
Clarendon the guests are served
by an ex-Confaderate General, a
doctor of medicine, a lawyer and
an ex-Jadge from Freeborn
County, Nina.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13
S. 2. BUATT,
ORAL SURGEON,

Offers to the public his professional
experience of thirty years in the above
speciality for the treatment Of all dis
eases peculiar to the mouth and preser-
vation of it's natural organs, the teeth.
Charges for all dental services graded
by quality and character desired. to suit
the times. For dental substitutes, from
s15 $50. SIS, 500, 5000, up to Buatt's
celebrated improved gold plate, $3.50 for
full sets, recommended as healthy, and
to perform the functions of mastication
satisfactorily as to kind selected.
Without previous arrangements, cash
is invariably expected"
Moved to new office, near the Baptist
Church. 's"
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

Transient advertisements Will be IN
serted at the rate of / SO per square OF
ten lines for the first insertion, and 20
cents for each subsequent insertion
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13
THE GREAT WAR'SLlVlNG RELICS.
From the Cincinnati Gazette. I


During the war of the Rebel
lion Col. Lawrence S. Shuler
commanded the 4th Indiana Cav
airy, and in one of the engage
ments of his command with the
enemy he was struck upon the.
top of the head by cannon
ball. which carried away a part
of the top of the skull. For
years Colonel Shuler has been
an intense sufferer from his
wound. at times being prostrated
for weeks together. While War;
den of the Southern Indiana
Penitentiary at Jetfersonville, in
combat with an escaping con-
yict, he received a blow upon
this old wound, and for long
lime his life was in great ieop-
ardy, He recovered, however,
sufficiently TO be out on the
stree S and attend to business,
but was finally prostrated by
paralysis Of the limbs, and for
several years was confined to.his
bed or room, and his mind
seemed to have almost entirely
given away. During several
months past he has been gradu-
ally improving, and for the first
time in two years was able to be
out upon the streets of Indianap-
oils, where he now resides, on
Tuesday last. During his long
continued suffering a part of the
brain was exposed, but some
months ago a membrane COM
menced growing over the wound,
aud this membrane las now ac-
quired such thickness and per-
/ sistency as to serve almost the
same purpose of protection of
| the brain as the skull did before
being shot and CT away, and it
is believed that in course of time
Col. Shuler will be fully restored
to health and the use of his fac
ulties.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat. |
In 1862 one of the shells from
Gilmore's guns on sumpter fell
upon house in the beleagured
city of Charleston, S. c., over
which the Palmetto flag Was fly
ing, and exploded. A piece of
the she'll struck the head of a
woman and knocked her down,
She was carried away, out of the
city, for dead, and the war went
on. This woman, Priscilla Mil
ler, yesterday fell in a f. at the
corner of Broadway and Ex-
change Streets. She told the
officers, who asked the cause of
her ILLNESS, to feel her head.
They unloosened a coil of white
| hair and found dent in which
three fingers could have been
thrust. Her story is, that after
spending long time in a
Charleston hospital she was able
to do housework. Her family
had been scattered by the war,
and it was to find q sister, sup
posed to be in st. Louis, that
she made her way to this city.
She suffers great pain from the
wound.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

So deeply inherent is it in this
life of ours that men have to suf-
fer fol each others sins. so ine-
vitably diffnsive is human suffer
ing. that even justice makes its
victims, and we can conceive no
retrihution that does not spread
beyond Its mark in pulsations of
nnmerited pain.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

Fresh stock groceries just arrived
at T.eonold's.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13
=. Dentistry.
DIR. M. j. MAssENGILL,

DIR. M. j. MAssENGILL,
dental surgeon, respectfully offers his
professional services to the people of
Bastrop and surrounding county. All
work warranted, Office-frst door sonth
of F. VaIghan's law Office, and lately oc-
cupied by DR.. McCreight, .a 2
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

People who do things too mean
for The public to know, entertain
very lofty ideas on the subject OF
"correct and pure" journalism.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13

The winters fros6 must rend
the burr Of the nut before the
fruit is seen. So adversity tenn
pers the human heart to discover
it's real worth.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-02-13
BLACK FRIDAY.
A Heretofore Untold Story.

York paper relative to BLACK Fri
day do Gen. Grant great ipjus-
tice, and are perversion OF
facts. Gov. Boutwell, does not
undertake to say what may have
been the purpose Of Mr.. CoFbin
in connection with Black Friday,
but he says that the following
statement gives the history of the
relations of the treasury depart
ment and Of President Grant to
that Black Friday.
The merchants of New York
for some days had been sending
piteous appeals to Washington
showing that they were at the
mercy Of the gold gamblers ring g
and that it Was becoming impos-
sible to obtain gold at the gam
blers' rates. to pay their duties.
It WAS not until the Thursday
preceding the noted Black Friday
that Gov. Boutwell, concluded
that it was his duty, as secretary.
and the duty of the administra-
ton, to use the power of the gov
ernment for the relief OF legiti-
mate importing interests and to
thwart the purposes Of the gam
bling ring. The fact that the
government was in danger Of
having its revenues impaired by
the looking mp of gold. and con.
sequens inability Of importers to
pay their duties. was Of itself a
controlling reason which led to
this discision. Accordingly, in
the course OF Thursday after
noon, Mr.. Boutwell,, Us secretary
of the treasury, requested Mr..
Knox, controller of the currency,
to come to the secresary's Office
after official hours. The same
notification was sent to three of
the most accomplished banking
and bookkeeping experts Of the
treasury.
These three experts, with Con-
trolIer Knox ano Gov. Boutwell,,
met in the private Office of the
secretary, when the latter stated
his purpose. It had been ascer-
tained that the gold clique was
able to conduct its operations
only by means OF cer'i6cation of
checks through the banks where
the leaders of the clique kept
their account. It was known
that during certain hours of the
day, say from II to IL. these
checks were certified, when the
makers of them really had no
gold to their credit, and that this
certiication vas a violation of
the national banking act. Bout
we'll Immediately .here commits
missioned these three experts to
proceed by the night train to
New York, to 90 to the bank,
AMI remain there constantly TO
notify the cashier that he should
inform them of the certifcation
of every check, show them the
books, and the moment that the
credit of any depositor was ex-
haussed to cease to certify a
check. This would be one very
efficient means for breaking the
power OF the ring to lock up gold,
The officers left for New York
and obeyed their Instructions
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC FOR
1870

The simple announcement that the
Tribune Almanac for 1880 is now ready
is the only hint which the Amican pub
lie requires in reference to this annual
register This is the only almanac pub
lished in the United States that has ma
tional reputation. The eclectic principle
lies at the base of thoroughly digested
almanac The Tribune almanac does
not have encyclopedia aims. 1t is a
common sense manual of American pol
tiles intended for actual use by practi-
cal public.
The general table of contents Of the
present number will be familiar to the
public. After the calendar pages and
astronomical observations is placed di-
gest of the public laws of the regular
and extra sessions of congress, with sum-
maries of the party platforms adopted
in 1879 and the constitutional amend
ments enacted and sanctioned in various
states The chapter on the elections of
United States senators is next in order,
and is followed by table of the electo-
raj vote for president from 1854 and lists
of the principal executive, depart
mental, diplomatic and judicial
officers. Among the govern,
ment, commercial and miscellaneous
statistics are tables relating 10 railroad
mileage and business, imports and ex-
ports. IRON ship-building since 1870, re-
venues and expenditure since 1875, APP
preparations for 1879 and 1880, immi-
grafton since 1870, coinage in 1879 and
previous years, production of gold and
silver in 1870, imports and exports of
coin and bullion, National bank, cur
rency and savings bank tables, internal
revenue statistics, public debt Of the
United States, and value in United
States money of foreign coins. Among
other civil lists are the rolls of the
XLVIth congress, the governors of the
suites, and the state government and
sheriffs of New York. The body of the
work is reserved for election returns
from all the states.
The Almanac has been compiled by
the Hon. Edward Mcpherson, statisti-
clan of National reputation, who has
| conducted the series for several years.
| The price remains as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cents for each copy-with the usual dis
count to the trade. The Almanac for
| 1880 will be sent postage paid to any
| address in the United States, on receipt
| of the price. and all orders will receive
| immediate attention.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
A JUST CLAIM.

The Lawrence Journal says: I'VE are
glad to see that senator Plumb is deter
minedly pushing forward his bill to Sc
cure to Kansas her five per cent. on the
amount of public lands disposed of with.
in her limits by the location of military
bounty or land warrants. By the act OF
admission Kansas, like the other new
states, was to have her five per cent. OF
the proceeds of all public lands sold
within her borders, and in consideration
of that five pes cent. on all lands sold she
bound herself not TO levy any taXeG on
United States lands until they were sold
This was n fair and square bargain and
Kansas has lived up to her part to the
letter, but we think that the government
has not.
The executive department has ruled
that the five pes cent, was only to be paik
over to Kansas (and the other new states
when the lands were sold tor cash, and
hence has refused to pay foI much the
greater part of the lands disposed of or
| the ground that land taken up by sol.
diers on land warrants We're not sold
Senator Plumb contends that these lands
were used TO fulfill contract OF
the government to pay debts due the sol
diers to whom the warrants were issued
| and hence the lands are as truly sold
| when disposed OF in this manner a
when they were sold for cash.
Senator Plumb is a member of the
committee on public lands, and we shall
confidently expect successful issue il
this matter, which is of very great i'm
portance, as it will give to Kansas some
thing like five hundred thousand dollars
and with the amount due US on othel
just claims will be just about sufficien
to pay off and extinguish the whole o
our state debt.
There are seventeen other states who
are alike interested, and alike interested
and of colrse the west will be unani
mons and earnest for senator PlRmb':
bill, while considerable opposition may
be expected from eastern members.
The question of law involved would
seem al most too PLAIN for argument, II
the uniform practice of the government
had not seemed to settle the matter
against our claim.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
pRENT1s ON THE NEW RAILROAD,

The year 1879 was a jovial one 10
mlny towns in Kansas as the happy
time which brought their first railroad,
the most gratifying event in the history
of municipality in Kansas or else
where.
The first railroad, like the first baby,
is the best. 1t is the source of boundless
joy, the fountain of numberleSs items.
Every step in the progress of the loco
motive toward the fortunate settlement
causes increasing excitement. The day
the smoke of the engine can be seen
from town, the local press may be said
to be heated the day the ''iron horse
that's what they always cal trolls in
on the new-laid track, the aforesaid col.
umns burst into a blaze. If the day of
publication is too far off, the American
eagle spreads his wings and the silent
cannon vomits its printed smoke at the
head of an extra" The population turn
out en- 7ndsse; the cOnvivial get drunk
and the sober are rather sorry they can.
not conscientiOusly join their festive fel
low-citiZeps. The enthusiasm does not
die out for three weeks at least, for there
is the great excursion where a countless
multitude crowd into four coaches and
go somewhere, no matter where, SO that
all hands return tired as dogs at a. M
he SlOSS IuDS Oh every luluS III llIlc,
and the new railroad becomes in very
few years an old affair Many people
who voted bonds for it, and brought the
flowing bowl to aid them in their re.
ioicing when it was completed, live to
say that II is an internal old monopoly y
that the superintendent is an oyerbear.
ing tyrant, the station agent blockhead,
and the mail agent throws off his sacks
at the wrong places.
Neither the old 'jubilantes" or the
latter growleIs are exactly right, but
the former are much nearer right than
the latter A railroad is grand, good
thing. 1t does not make a metropolis
of every town it reaches, but there are
few towns it does not improve, and nc
town, in exchange for the lifting of any
amount at its bonded debt, would be de
prived of one after having once enjoyed
it. Kansas is the railroad state, hence
the prosperous state, and no year in her
history has been fuller of brightness
than 1S79.-Atchison Champion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23

In the Senate Tuesday General Logan,
in presenting petitions for the passage of
what is known as the Weaver bill, which
provides for the payment TO the soldiers
in the late war of the difference in value
between the greenbacks and gold, took
occasion to denounce the bill as one of
the greatest pieces of demagogueIsm ever
introduced in congress, and Logan is
undoubtedly right in this opinion. We
believe this bill WAS intro
duced purely and solely for
political purposes. 1t is a measure in
tended, in its effect, TO draw the support
Of the Republican soldier from his par
~ In the presidential contest next year.
II Is known by the author of the meas
ure that congressman cannot seriously
entertain the bill Then next fall you
will hear the reform" frogs croaking
themselves hoarse from every stump at
the treatment of the soldier by the "par-
ties in power" Its intention is to drive
the soldiers into the Greenback or Dem
| ocratic ranks. If this can be done
the object, and only object of the bill,
| will have been accomplished. If Gen.
Logan has been distinguished for any
one thing In congress more than another,
| il Is for his devotion TO the interests OF
the soldiers of the late war, and they
should take warming from his denunci-
alton of the Weaver bill. So far as our
observation extends the soldiers, as a
class, are not agitating this matter. We
have talked to several Of them
who think II thoroughly
impraciicable measure, and as Logan
says, piece of demegoguery. 1t is the
reform politicians, many of them never
having smelt powder. who are taking
such an interest all at once In the cause
of the soldier. The petitions, as dictat
cd at Greenback headquarters, and prob
ably written by that great friend of the
soldiers u Brick Pomeroy, have been
published in the reform papers, accom-
panied by stirring editorial appeals
1t is this interesting class Of society
who are troubled about the
interests of the soldiers. When it il
contemplated what the adoption of thii
measure would lead TO, its utter folly
and Righteousness must be seen. Il
would add thousands of millions to Oul
national debt. If money could be ISSUED
to meet its provisions, it would be SC
utterly valueless as to be worthless. Like
the confederate rags, it would take {
basket full to buy beefsteak.
There is no class of people we have
more respect for, whose laboFs and sac
rifices we appreciate more than the sol
diers who saved this country from
the great Democratic rebellion, and ther'
is nothing in reason calculated to ad
vance their true interests, which WI
would not advocate, but to this dema
gogueical political measure we caHnO
but give our unqualified condemnation
and we are glad to know that this is tn
position taken by u majority of the sol
!, diers of the country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
A MAMMOTH CORPORATION
Something Interesting COncerIng tn
Copper Hill Mining Company.

Something Interesting COncerIng the
Copper Hill Mining Company.
Probabably one of the strongest cor
porations for mining purposes existing
AT the present time between the MisSis-
sippi river and the summit of the Rocky
mountains Is the Copper Hill mining
company, the president, seoSstary and
and stock holders of which reside in this
city.
About one year and half ago the
company was first organized and made
purchase or rather took up the claims
where the mines now are.
Hon. q. \. Holiday of this city is prcsi-
dent of the company, and Judge jacob
Stafford, also OF this city, is secretary.
]. H. Vaughan, of Lake City, Colorado,
is treasurer. The directors are senator
Plumb of Emporia, j. S. Danford. W.
n. Ewing and T. j. Peters of Usage city;
NJ. l.. Sargent general agent of the A.
T, & s. +. II. X. and Judge Stafford.
The Journal reporter visited Mr.. SAT-
ford at his office this afternoon, and
found that gentleman busily engaged on
some work relating to recent increase
in the capital stock of the company of
from 5000, 900 to 100000. He showed
the reporter receipts to that effect which
had Just been received from Denver, duly
signed and certified to by the proper au-
thoFitiGs. He also exhibited a very fine
collection of specimens from the mines,
which any sensible person, by eXamin-
ing, can readily see shows that the ore is
very rich. Eighteen claims have been
filed, and eight ready to be patented,
and patents will be taken out
for them at once. For the past season,
up To the beginning of bad weather,
about twenty men have been kept con-
M xxN-h in tho mime anH haN
have now several tGps Of ore on hand,
sacked and ready for shipment, Cabins
and ore houses have been erected aud all
the necessary tools for mining have been
bought and the company is out of debt.
Some of the ore now ready for shipping
is said TO be very fine. One small piece
that was taken out by MIR. Stafford him.
self, assayed ON u test at the rate of s.
lG0 ozs., of silver to the ton, saying moth
ing about the copper. Mr.. Stafford
thinks that about three hundred ozs-
would be very fair average of all the
ore taken cut
mine in all Colorado, and probably the
richest in the United States. The main
portion or strongest lodes have vet 10 be
struck. Two tunnels have been run into
the hill and one shaft sunk As soon as
the weather will permit they will begin
work with an increased force Of men,
and push the thing with vigor. These
mines are situated in Hinsdale county,
Colorado, fifteen miles west of Lake City,
on the south fork of Bittercreek. Should
they pan out TO the expectations of the
company, every man in At vii in few
years be a millionaire. and the price OF
copper will unquestionably be kept nj
reasonable igure.-Topeka State Jour
nal, Jan II.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
FLoATERS.


Working between meals is what wears
out the tramp.
Wiikie Collins says he has earned
$4,000 with his pen.
Congressman Hawley, of Connecticut,
was born in North Carolina.
The present governor of Colorado was
once respectable carpenter.
Algernon Sartoris, husband 10 Nellie
Grant, Is again in this country,
Senator Bruce is the youngest member
Of the United States senate--thirty-nIne.
The worst old topper in the in the world
would be glad to draw a sober breath, if
he had it.
Mr.. Gladstone shows his age, and has
little whisps of dry hair falling before
his ears.
Mr.. German, who Is to be senator from
Maryland, used to be good catcher in a
base ball club.
Mrs Nancy Smith, admitted to the
bar a. Keokqk, was banqueted by her
brethren in the law.
Louisa NJ. Alcott, the authorizes. has
sent one hundred books to the newsboys'
reading room in Boston.
The wants long felt in Paris have all
been supplied. That city supports forty
nine daily political newspapers
Nature cannot stand everything. If a
young man will wear fur cap he must
make up his mind to lose has hair.
/, The Rev. Anna Oliver, who bought out
u BFOOklyu church, is making il success
full, and viii soon have il paid for.
The ago OF Abraham johnson, who
lives near Scranton, Pa, Is 100 years
His health is good, and his memory re-
markable.
One of the sons Of the late Charles
Dickens, Francis j. Dickens. is an in
spector in the Canadian northwest
mounted police.