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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-29

Is only demanded by advertisers when
they have been taught to expect Ill Iii
/ certainly dlsiignres paper, and Compcls
| the reader e fish industriously for his
local news. don't think II IL best for
] the advertisers Ii certainly Is not for
the readers. The reader should be afford
ed every facility for getting 1T the mat
ter he wants 70 read, The classification
of matter is the best and only means to
this end. | like TO read advertisements.
| They are very interesting and profitable
reading. BUT when ] want to read news
! don't like To BE- beguled into reading
about Mr. smiths ribbons, or the re.
duced price of Mr. Jones cabbage seed.
In this connection lei me mention
class Of advertisements that have become
common, and which are nuisances.
refer 70 the reading notices Of patent
medicines, etc. which must, ii accord
ance with the contract, be made to fol-
low regular reading matter Many &c
these notices have attractive heads,
which delude you into the belief that
they are readable news items. You
think you are reading a choice para
graph, only to find at the close that DR..
Somebody's curc-all is Just the thing for
the itch You naturally feel that il il
I'M imposition, and that you have been
treated badly. When buy any patent
medicine I will buy from the man who
odvertises IN the regular way, The man
who tricks me into reading his notice
shall not have a chance to trick me with
his medicine. OF course do not mean
to imply that every one who adopts this
style Of advertising is trickster far
from it. ! only say that condemn the
method, and don't care how soon the
public rebel against il.
In this rambling, hastily prepared pa-
per have dealt chiefly with the editor,
and have not referred at length to the
business man Of the paper, most i'm.
portant parsonage, upon whom the sue
cess Of the paper largely depends.
Whether he be editor or not, his work
demands d thorough practical knowledge
and skill The best edited paper will be
Of little value without typographical
neatness, Many an editor has seen his
work wasted on badly printed paper.
Without skillful management, which
brings the money, the editorsoccupation
is gone.
In throwing out these observations !
trust | may not be misunderstood. Ill
have indulged IN some criticisms aud
pleasant exaggcrations Of what may be
regarded as some Of the faultsand foibes
Of journalists, il is not because am silly
enough to affect any superior knowledge
or ability, nor that desire 10 assume the
office Of censor Indeed il is not i'm
probable that have hoist myself with
some Of my own petards. | owe toe
much to my contemporaries, and am too
sincere an admirer Of their excellcneies
to be guilty Of any such folly. Ever
since ! entered the profession Of journal
ism have been an earnest and faithful
student, though perhaps 4 slow learner
and the best teachers | have had and
those most valued aud esteemed have
been my bright faced, ever welcome
country exchanges.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-29
A Paris Fancy.

A peasant ball is one Of the fancies Of
fashionable Paris No expenseis spared
to give it the proper rustic coloring. All
the elegant Parisian furniture is cleared
away TO give place to deal benches,
three-legged stools, and the like; the
walls are hung with evergreen garlands
and streamers, and in the center the
hostess, in all her village bravery, stands
receiving her guests. supported by
knot Of country oficials-the Mayor
and Municipal Council. Every thing is
in keeping; even the beer and cider
which hide the champagne on the rustic
refreshment stall, and the accessories OF
the inevitable cotillion. After the dance
there ID supper, at which distinguished
poets. artists, dramatists, and civilians
are gathered together, and make brief
and funny speeches. The health OF the
hostess is duly proposed, and she returns
thanks in the traditional style.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-29
Timber Planting.

To make timber plentiful and TO render
our climate more genial we must streclotlle
all rugged, broken land and rocky crests,
in fact, every acre that is not cultivated
or is cultivated at loss, with valuable
forest trees.
First--All ravines and steep hill-sides,
all land too rocky to be thoroughly
cleared Of stone and plowed, should be
deyoted to trees
Second Protecting belts Of timber
should be planted wherever buildings,
orchards, gardens, etc, are exposed to
cold, sweeping winds.
Third The banks Of streams, ponds,
open bitches, etc, should be so planted
with trees that they will be protected
from abrasion by foods and rapid cur
rents
Fourth--All public roads should be
belted by graceful. stately trees.
We should preserve, improve and
extend our existing forests by keeping
up a constant succession Of young grow
ing trees OF the best varieties. To do
this it is necessary:
First-To allow no stock to run in
wood lots for the purpose Of forage. This
should be rule inilexible and relent-
ness.
Second = Young growth in forests
should be thinned moderately and judi
ciously. Worthless varieties should be
cut out and the valuable sorts should be
trimmed up so that they will grow tall,
forming trunk rather than branches.
Third Timber should be cut with
intelligent reference to future growth.
Valuable trees that you wish to propa-
gate should be cut in the spring, Those
that you wish TO exterminate should be
cut in August. Professor Lazenby.
| Cornell UniUersity.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-29
DIXIE EIlN.

bait. 80
me next comet that comes should
have an owner.
reversible cufs-Boxing one ear and
turning the other also.
This is rather warm work, As the
thermometer remarked to the comet.
Il man has shot gun, he is vast.
ing Time trying to kill two birds with
one stone. X
Inc stage robbers out West seem to
uave given up their attempt to ferret
out the authorities.
Vulgar peogle who become ricb lilo
g % Europe and stay where they can
forget themselves.
-. Texas paper says: oIhere will
o oOOn oe another paper in town to divide
our poverty WITH
a ten pound lump of ice is smaller
now - SAi2tAllNA
now @ 'nan at any other season Of the
s'sl ;s,, It's just big enough to run awav
= iefton the sidewalk.
IN North Caroline it is feared the 10.
suSS will not be able to harvest the
.sp s,Op, I II is SO large. Tho attention d
rage. sgl W u y 'ne out
:. AZ ! istin doctor met old Uncle Mos.
~ -, austin avenue, and said pleasantly
~ now 90 you feel to day, Uncle Nose,
ba;l :An gwins ter tell yer until i know
:" much you am going to charge me.
an Austin boy came home from scboo
- ssiy nuca excited, and told bis fathe
sl4' ne believed all human beings wer
We sssoended from apes, which made Ii
Srr ssT, man = 50 mad that he replied anVrily
laas may be the case with YOU. but
f'u with me; | can tell you that, now.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-29
NEWS GLEAsINes.

Geneva, Ala, has four bar rooms and
is without church,
Last year North Carolina spent $337,-
900 for education.
Some S273,000 worth Of liens have
been filed in Spartanburg county, S. G.,
The Sewanee coal mines, in Grundy
county, Tenn, have been sold for $685..
900.
The net earnings Of the South Carolina
railroad SO far in 1881, exceed those Of
1880 by $50, 900.
Mississippi is promised larger crop
than she has ever had.
North Carolina has 1859 bar-keepers
!. and ], ,275 preachers.
Two thousand men annually fall into
drunkards' graves in North Carolina.
The fire in the ovens at the Selma gas
works has been constantly burning since
1855.
OF 1876 newspapers in North Carolina
only five oppose the prohibition move.
ment.
Florida will raise eight million water
melons this year.
The wine crop Of Georgia last year
vas 90S, PA gallons, worth 81, 1926, ,52l. .6S.
Virginia mockingbirds are getting
scarcer every year, as the sportsmen kill
them wantonly.
Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Maryland and West Virginia
produced in 1880 no less than 3S5, $50,
765 pounds ef tobacco.
A large force is at work on the Nat.
ural Bridge, Virginia, improving the
grounds and enlarging the hotel.
Larger than the State Of Rhode
Island, yet Baldwin county, Ala, with
apopulation Of 5000, has not resident
lawyer and but one physician.
The Willimantic Spool-cotton Com
pany will bring seventy five to one
hundred girls to the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition.
The new mineral spring is attracting
considerable attention at Athens. All
who have drank Of the water pronounce
it excellent-much better than the old
one. tits bold and cold.
The old sea-wall, erected at st. Au
gustine in 1885, to protect that CITY
against inundation, is fast yielding ia
the dashing waves, and, unless soon
repaired, may be swept away at any
time by gale
The whole stock Of the Charleston. s
y, manufacturing company, being hall
million dollars, has already been sub
scrioed, and the books are closed.
In two years New Orleans has realized
over one million dollars from the sale Of
street railroad franchises, and the money
% oeing used to extinguish the city debt
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27

1t is a tradition in the town of Litch-
field that early one morning loud boyish
voices were heard from a certain upper
chamber in the parsonage, growing
noisier and more quarrelsome, till the
head of the family thought it was time
to interfere.
"Boys, boys" said the stern voice
of the plucky little parson, at the foot
of the stairs, 'swhat is all this noise
about2n
The chamber door was slammed
open, there was a rush into the upper
hall, and an outraged indignant voice,
with a touch of horror in its tone, ex-
claimed:
"Fatherl Henry says God couldn't
make a sheet of paper with only one
side to it,"
AS Bishop Berkely said about the
strawberry, no doubt God could make
anything with only one side to it, but
he never did, and while Henry persis'
tent as Calico, hung on to the truth
as he saw it, just as he has hung on
to every truth he has seen even since, l
do not doubt that his maturer mind
would agree with me that there are
several sides to everything, even to the
temperance question.-Rose Terry Cook
in Christian Union.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
NO T sEssIoN.

A Washington special to the New
York Commercial Bulletin says: Last
night President Garfield completed one
Of the best framed documents of his life;
1t was against an extra session, show
ing that besides being unwise 1t was
absolutely unnecessary. He argued
against it from all the points so far
urged, stating that from n political
view it would be unfortunate for the
republican party. He calculated that
congress would be in session till July,
and then they would end in passing, too
late for any service, substantially the
same bill as ex-P President Hayes vetoed.
In putting this into practical effect, he
thought there would be difficulties to be
encountered, such as the fact that then
the farmers crops and other produce
would bring lower prices; besides, his
idea was that there was no necessity
for one. He had sl04 900, 900 of bonds
to sell, either As or Avs, whichever
would 1T the market best at the time,
and with surplus could not
only redeem all the 6's but also some of
the SIS and still keep the SIS under con-
troll till congress meets in December,
and as long afterwards as necessary.
This is a feeble epitome of this remark
able document, but gives an idea of its
strong and impassioned intent. 1t was
deadly poison to any idea of an extra
session of congress, and contained a
| good deal Of political expression as to
the effect 1t would have on the republic
can party. The cabinet met, but 1t
was not called upon to consider this
question. Blaine and MacVeagh were
sick. Both knew that something Of
the kind vas coming and that it was as
strongly adverse to an extra session as
finished language could put it. 1t
| laid at the head of the table, but
was not opened. Every member pres
ent knew what vas in it, and the
matter will probably be decided by
| Tuesday or before. Garfield, in ex-
p~lanation of his course, says: 81 never
suggested an extra session; it was all
outside clamor; l was always opposed to
it; don't see why the people demand
an expression from the cabinet; the
cabinet proposed it; somebody
seems to wants it; the administration
does not"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
LItta. the Prlma Donna.

The wedding of Litta, the prima
donna, and Harry Cleveland, is anthem
tically reported, to take place in New
York early in May. The gifted songs
tress first met her husband about a
year ago at the Palmer house in Chica-
go, where the Slayton Concert Com
pany were stopping at that time
of which Litta and Cleveland were
both members. 1t seems that it was
a case of love at first sight, the youth
full couple becoming engaged a few
months afterward.
Litta's mother is strongly opposed to
the match, and hoped to see the day
when her daughter would be united to
a prominent and rich young merchant
who formed her acquaintance while the
prima donna was pursuing her earlier
musical studies in that city. Litta
was engaged to G. A.. Hazenwinkle, at
one time a brilliant member of the
Bloomington bar, but who relinquished
the legal profession for the stage.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27

The late Frederick Hudson, formerly
manager of the New York Herald, is
said to have had the most remarkable
memory eyer known in connection with
the press. This is shown by the fact that
in taking the names of newly arrived
ships and their captains. he made no
record until he reached the Office, when
he would write them out in a manner
so correct as to bereally wonderful.
A mar in Guilford, Conn , who was
too poor to indulge in any Injuries
other than children, was presented by
q loving but unreckoning wife with
triplets-three boys-and he sought for
some family to adopt them. Mr.. Clark
was rather inclined to take them. but
his wife thought that one would be
enough. They were talking it over
before their little e~ight-year-old daugh-
ter, who said, ''Why don't we take
one of them, ma? Or don't they want
to break the set.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Manager Abbey and Sarah Bernhardt
will each be at least $140,0 600 better off
at the close of the present contract.
Roughly computed about 100, 600, 900
Of the worlds inhabitants speak En-
glish; about GO, 900, 900 German; about
So OO, 600 French, and about As, DOC, 0oC
Spanish.
President Elliot, of Harvard College,
Mary l.. Booth, editor of Harper's Ba.
Ear, and the cook at the Parker House,
Boston, receive the same salary-s6,00 %
a year.
The luxurious furniture which was
manufactured in Boston for Boss
Tweed at the height of his influence
and a~fluence, was sold at New York
the other day.
The Inauguration committee at
Washington, after paying all expenses
have a surplus of $4,000, so that for
once the festivities of inauguration
have been a financial success.
David Davis is enthusiastically
mentioned by a Massachusetts paper
as being las independent as a hog on
ice." That is to say If can't run, he
can slide.-BuDalo Express.
General Grant is said to have re-
quested the reappointment of Postmis-
tress Elizabeth Van Lew, of Richmond
because she gave him valuable informa-
ton about Lees movements.
The wife of Secretary Window
Is the daughter of a Congrega-
tional minister in Massachusetts.
In her youth she was a teacher in Ohio
and she now teaches her W children.
Ten cows stood in a row in a stable
at Plattsville. Wis, with their heads
fastened in the usual way. between
stanchions. The floor gave way in the
night. and in the morning they were
found hanging dead.
Fourteen hundred office seekers, each
one of whom carried Indiana in DC.
tober," are at Washington. and the
question arises, ibid any of 'em get
away"
An old miner who had fifteen years
experience under ground, says that he
has observed one peculiar fact, that be-
tween twelve and two O'Clock in the
night IL there is a loose stone or bit OF
earth in the mine 1t is sure to fall. Says
he: ABOUT this time it seems that
everything begins to stir and imme.
diately after twelve, although the mine
has been as still as a tomb before, you
will hear particles Of rock and dirt come
tumbling down, and II there isa cavinp
piece OF ground In the mine it is sure
to give way"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27

The Boston correspondent Of the
Hartford Times says that ''the best
editorial article on the assassinated
emperor OF Russia published in any
Boston paper Monday morning, was
written by George Perry, a printer, and
published in the Globe. Perry is an
Englishman and although he works at
the case, lis one Of the best posted men
in Boston on foreign affairs. He was
hauled out of bed at two O'Clock in the
morning, and after that wrote a column
of solid nonpariel in season for the paper
to 60 to press at the usual hour. For
this labor and knowledge that he had
been years in gathering he received Sc.
Compensation for articles Of great
merit is guaged by police court drivel
on all the Boston papers. Quality and
not quantity seems to be the standard
J at present."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
IT is said on good authority that tn.


IT is said on good authority hat the
extra session question vas not brought
up at the cabinet meeting yesterday.
The failure to discuss the matter is at
tributed by some to the absence Of Score
tary Blaine, who was confined at his
house by a severe cold, but the more
general superstition is that it has
already been practically determined not
to call any extra session and that fur
ther cabinet discussion of this subject,
was therefore unnecessary. Protests
against an extra session continue to
come in from business centres of all
parts Of the country, and the pressure
in favor of one seems to be rapidly
narrowing down to the southern repub-
licans, who Of course desire the ma
chinery Of the house committee on
elections to be set at work as soon as
possible TO yacate sundry democratic
seats, which they insist, have been filed
fraudulently.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27

THE Union Pacific company, in an
official circular, calls for men to work
on the extentions of the road in Colo
RADIO. The labor will chiefly consist of
rock blasting, earth-working, and rough
bridge and culvert building. The com
pany or its contractors will furnish
board at "a. 50and IS per week. Only
tools for blasting and the heavier i'm
plements will be supplied. The princi-
pal demand is for graders, shovelers.
rockmen and track-layers. The fol-
lowing wages will be paid: Laborers
at tunnel, inside 80; iron men, $3.50;
laborers, s2.25; spikers $3.50; black
smiths, SO; tracklayers, 1915; foremen,
Is. IL
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.

1t is D thing 10 make a railroad
pool and another thing to make it work
smoothly. 1t was but 3 day a two ago
that it was semi-ofieially announced
that the new Southern Pacific and
Union Pacific were wholly in accord as
regards freights, passenger fares, etc&l
but crediting the statements upon
Chicago authority, there is already a
screw loose between them, with no
lack of trouble looming up in the fu-
ture. The whole distance from New
York TO San Francisco by the new
southern route is more than 800 miles
longer than by the Northern Pacific
route, but the Southern route has bet
ter grades, and one of their agents, with
whom a reporter ~conyersed, declared
that their running time from ocean TO
ocean would not exceed the time of the
older route by more than two hours;
whether much of this might not be
made up on the Southern Pacific, is a
matter of speculation. The same in
terest that owns the Central Pacific
controls the Southern Pacific, and
naturally they will try to force the
larger traffic oyer the route which re-
turns them larger profits.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27

THE New York Tribune says that the
favorable report by the committee on
foreign relations on treaties with China
means no doubt their final confirmation.
There is not a single feature in the new
adjustment by these treaties of our re-
lations with China, which is not per-
fectly just to the United States, and
ever desirable, and yet they may I'M
doubleday be set down as another sue
cess for China. Her successes lately,
in war and policy, have been SO signifi-
cant that it is time w gave them atten-
tion. Fifteen years ago China was
supposed to be in articulo mortis, but
to-day she shows the vigor and energy
of a young nation.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
cALrFonNIA IDEAS OF MURDER.

The New York Times says that now
| and then in California a Chinaman is
hanged sometimes by officers OF the law,
and oftener by the agents of a mob.
The acquittal Of Kalloch, who has just
been tried for the murder of DeYoung,
would seem that the day for hanging
people in California, except in such OBJ
scure cases as those above noted, has not
yet come. There have been innumer-
able cases within the past few years of
California juries aequitting persons who
were clearly guilty of murder; the jury
in every case being actuated by SYM
pathy with the defendant or by motives
OF qualification at the death OF the vic
tim. Mrs. Fair escaped hanging be-
cause the jury thought it a hard case
that a man should Ego back" on his
paramour and live with his W wife
after years Of neglect; virtually, the jury
said that Mrs. Fair was justified in
hunting down Crittenden and shooting
him in the presence of his wife and
children, as she did. DeYoung was an
editor, who had a newspaper discussion
with a local politician, and he was shot
and killed in cold blood by the angry
mar who had been assailed. The slayer
was acquitted because the jury thought
it time to curb the license of the press,
and because some of the jurymen were
Of the same politics rs the slayer. There
is nc question as to the fact in either of
these two cases.
The Verdi says: One DeYoung shot
Kalloch, senior, and Kalloch, junior,
having murdered DeYoung, another
De Young is thinking Of killing Kali
loch. OF course the authorities will act
as favorably in the case of the next
murderer as they did in the s. Of the
last one. The general government
might perhaps encourage this California
industry by a liberal system Of subsi-
dies
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
THE DEMocRATs nErusE TO DIE

The Chicago Times has caused inter.
views to be held with several hundred
representative democrats in the north
west, south and east, and prints two
pages, saying editorially, the result is
not encouraging to those patient people,
who have been hoping against hope
that bourbonism was dying. The cur
rent OF opinion sets strongly against
disintegration Of the party, and scarce
ly a faint echo Of the wall of despair
which went up when Hancock's defeat
was announced, is now heard. On the
tariff question, the democrats are
widely at variance. In the west and
northwest, the prevailing sentiment is
low tariff or free trade, but whenever
a manufacturing center is approached
a different feeling is manifested. The
feeling in the south is against tho &C.
tive agitation of the subject.