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F.. CHAPPELLE, Secretary.

The North American Review for Septem-
Der is an admirably constituted number.
First comes State Regulation of Corporate
Profits by ChiefJustice Il. NJ. Cooley OF
Michigan, showing how far, by wise leg1s-
Iation and by applying in the spirit OF en-
lightened Jurisprudence the principles OF
the common law, the narrowing exacLons
of corporate companies and monopones In
general may be restrained and the interests
of the people effectually conserved. John
A, Kasson, NJ. c., writes on 'Munlc1pai
Reform and offers suggestions FOR the
Abatement of the wills of misgOvernment In
our great municipalities that will command
the earnest interest of all good citizens
without respect to party. Richard Grant
White treats of 'Class Distinctions IN the
United States,' q subject that Is destined 10
occupy more and more the attention OF the
American people ~ great fortunes increase.
shooting at Sight is the subject OF some
pertinent reflections by James jackson,
Chief-Justfce of the State of Georgia. In
Facts about the Caucus and the Urinary,
George Walton Green unveils the trichs
practfced by political managers in large
W. II. Mallock, contributes conversations
with q Solitary in which he sets forth
with much ingenuity the arguments ad-
verse to popular government. The Rev Dr
DS Phelan contributes an article sparkling
with epigrams on the Limitations of Free
thinking Finally, Grant Allen, the most
charming of all living writer's on natural
history, discourses on 'Au American Wlld
Flower Published at 80 Lafayette Place,
New York, and for sale by booksellers
generally.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-25
BAPTIST SABBATH SCHOOL
CONVENTION.

Met in the First Missionary Baptist
church last Tuesday. About 200 delegates
were present. Z. II. Morris of Heera w as
Portland, secretary. Several cOmmihees
were appointed and a new board of officers
elected; a vote of thanks was returnedto
the retiring officers for the efficient manns
they had discharged their duty for the last
year. The following named were elected
officers of the Sunday-school convention
for the ensuing year: President, T. L. Nor
ris, Helena; Vic-President, J. A. Booker,
Portland; Secretary, Prof. q. H. W. Stew
art, Helena: Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Carrie Gurley, Pine Bluff; Treasurer, Mrs.
ID. W. Thompson, Little Rock.
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ACCIDENT ON MEMPHIS AND
LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD.

MEMPHIS, TENN, August 23.-The west
bound passenger train on the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad, which left here at 8
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. met with an
accident last night four miles of Forrest
City while crossing a short trestle; bro
ken rail caused two second-class passenger
coaches and baggage and express cars to
ger and Harry Goldberg, merchants of
Cotton Plant, Ark, and John Adair, for
merly foreman OF the pile drivers of the
Little Rock road. James White, atock
claim agent of the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad, had leg broken, and several
other passengers received injuries, but not
of q serious nature. The east bound train,
due here at 10 O'Clock last night, did not
arrive uutil IL O'Clock this morning.
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THE NEGRO THE BALANCE
OF POWER.

We invite attention to the fact that the
negro voters hold the balance of power in
the states of New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
indiana and Connecticut. That is to say,
there has not been an election carried by
eae Republican party in any of these five
sStes during the past three years which
Wduld not have been lost had the negro
yOtsfs voted the Democratic ticket.
By the census of 1880, the number OF col
ored males of twenty-one years and over in
the several states was as follows:
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The Arkansas Mansion, edited

The Arkansas Mansion, edited
by Henry Simkens. is the best
paper ever published in the state
by a colored man, and merits sue
cess.-COuachita Valley Bulletin.
Brother Friedheim has our
thanks for the fattering compli>
ment, but we would be pleased
to have a wider latitude.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-25
READ THIS.

Teach your children music; they have
naturally a great talent and love tor this
ennobing, refining, and we may rightly
add, Divine Art-and the opportunities are
HolIenberg. the well-known Music Dealer,
400 Main street, Little Rock, will rent
pianos from 50 SO to So 90 per month, and
organs from 81 to 81; he has always been
a most liberal patron and encourages our
race in the development of their inherent
love Of music. Call on II. G.. Hollenberg,
whenever you need anything in the music
line, april 7-tf
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FROM PERRY COUNTY.

On Wednesday, August Goth, the citizens
OF Perry county met at Walnut Grove A.
NJ. f, church and elected N. Jefferson q
delegate to the State Convention, and
passed resolutions endorsing both State
and National conventions.
T. HARPOLE, Chairman.
NJ JEFFERSON, Secretary.
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The moonlight excursion from
Warren station, Brady county,
to Little Rock, to attend the
Baptist convention, is expected to
be large and grand affair. Re-
turning will leave Little Rock
evening at 4 o'clock
sharp. Return tickets can be
had frem the committee or at the
Pine Bluff ticket office.
r. L. WILLIAMS, Secy.
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NOTICE.

The camp meeting of Magnolia
district will commence Thursday,
13, 1883. under the
auspices Of the A. NJ. E. church,
at St. Matthew's chapel, about
one mile from Mcneil station, at
IL o'clock a. m.
NJ. w. WINsTEAD, 2. E.
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PERSONAL.

Charley Valentine and lady, of
Hot Springs, gave the Mansion a
call last Wednesday, en- route to
the exposition at Louisville, Ky.
Elder w T Fountain, of Mexi-
CO, Mo-, gave the Mansion a call
last Wednesday. He is a trav-
cling missionary of the Baptist
denomination.
Rev I G Thomas Of Hazen sta
tion and VIM Holloway of Lon
oke, gave the Mansion a call yes
terday, both are delegates to the
Baptist convention.
Prof J G Corbin and family,
left last Wednesday via Memphis
and Little Rock railroad, to
spend a week or ten days at the
Louisville exposition. His school
will open on or about the 1st
prox.
Left for Richmond, Va, via
Louisville, KY, I S Singleton, to
be absent about two weeks, to at
tend the grand session Of the
household of Ruth, which will
convene On Tuesday the twenty
eigth inst.
Little Abe Ottenheimer, r.,who
has for the last three months been
putting in time at Richmond &
Aliens drug store, has concluded
to become chemist and will
leave soon for Frankfort, KY, to
study chemistry.
Jackson Allen of Hot Springs,
late of this city, passed through
here last Tuesday en- route home,
from Lawrence, Kansas, where
he had been in attendance
on the grand lodge ef the
Knights of Tabor and Daughters
of the Tabernacle.
H w Watkins and S d Da-
Wis of Hampton. Calhoun county,
gave the Mansion a call last
Thursday. They are delegates
to the Baptist convention and are
also delegates to the state con-
ventiOn to convene next Monday.
The following named members
Of the Baptist Sabbath school
convention, paid their respects to
the Mansion by putting in an ap-
pearance at our sanctum last
Tuesday: Geo Ormond, Rev E G
Morris. T T Morris, P B Barrow,
and E D Gardner, Of Helena; j A
Booker of Portland, Ark.
Miss Bette Lunda, one of Little
Rock 8 leading bellies, left the city
on the 9th inst, to spend a few
weeks with friends and relatives
at Cabot station. Those to
whom she is best known would
be pleased to have her return
soon, more particularly the men,
bers of Zion choir, of which she
is an active member.
Joseph A Beebe, bishop of the
CM E church was in the city last
Wednesday. He preached very
impressive sermon last Tuesday
night at Miles chapel, and left on
the afternoon train for Alabama,
on a general tour through his
work ho1neward, but did not for
get to subscribe for the Mansion
for one year.
Prof George Ii w Stewart,
editor and proprietor Of the Hele-
ma Golden Epoch, is in the city
attending the Sabbath school and
church, state convention. Last
Thursday he henored our hum:
bic sanctum with his graceful and
gentlemanly presence. Professor
Stewart is an intelligent, wei
balanced and we'll proportioned.
and as we think, a high toned
gentleman of our state, whom we
never had the pleasure Of meet
ing before. We hope in future
to meet him oftener and have
the pleasure of his company jour
nalistically in our state and ma
tional conventions and excur
sions. The Epoch has the Man
sion's cool wishes, and we think
it merits success
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WANTED.

WANTED.-AIl postmasters in
the state to act as agents for the
''Manslon," liberal commission
allowed. On receipt of first remit
tance all necessary documents
will be forwarded.
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TERRIBLE CYCLONE,

Last Tuesday night a cyclone passed
ings were destroyed. Damage to properly
about half million, thirty-four lives were
lost and eighty-two persons mortally woun-
ded,
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FROM CROSS COUNTY.
WITTsBURG, August 16.

WITTSBURG, August 10.
Editor Mansion:
Dear Sir-In pursuance to a call for q
county convention, the citizens OF Cross
county met and elected two delegates to
attend the State Convention to convene at
Little Rock, August 81, 1888, to elect eleven
delegates to represent Arkansas in the Ma
tional Convention, to meet at Louisville,
KY, on the 27th proximo.
MALONE, Chairman.
r CHAPPELLE, Secretary.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-25

had several years experlence IN
that department of our city scheol
as we'll as several years in the
preparatory department OF the
Peabody School. Prof Rightsell'
we think, will doubtless be the
right man in the right place.
Prof Rightsell speaks very favor
ably of Prof J o w Alexander,
tor principal of the Union School.
He thinks it would only be just
and right that the colored people
should have a colored principal
over their children. Though we
were surprised at the board not
removing Prof Hail. to fill the
vacancy at the Peabody, made by
the promotion Of Prof Rightsell,
thus giving place to Alexander
in turn, az he has rendered ETH
cient services as assistant teacher
in the High School for a number
of wears. If the board is undeci-
ded as to his competency they
should find some colored man
az it is thonght a black man has
more interest in celored children
than a white one.
Last Sunday, Mr.. A E Smith
Maid a visit to our little Baptist
Sabbath school, situated out here
at Fourche bridge, and says he
never was so pleased. They had
Just put their church bell up; ana
when it was rang, the children
became frightened and lett.
A MEMBER.
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Revenge is Sweet.

There was q young man of Sing Sing,
says the New York Tribune, but per.
hapsit will be best to make a plain prose
statement of this matter, though the liIe
runs to metro, in writing Of romance and
war: He was jealous of his wife, from
whom he had been separated after two
days of married life, and when he asked
her why certain young man came to
sec her 80 often, he found himself sud-
denly slapped as to his mouth and kicked
rs to his shins. Then he determined on
revenge. He did not shoot her or him,
nor did he take poison himself. He 10y
in wait for the young man, angered him
by some remarks, and when the young
man wickcdly swore, the husband had
him arrested, and stood by i'll fiendish
exultation while the Judge fined him
two dollars for profanity. This was a
safe and pcaccablc vengeance, and may
be commended to husbands of n fiery
and impetuous disposition, who may be
led, when their shins are kicked, into
some deed of terrible r0Shnc6s
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Advice TO n Young Man.

You will perceive, my boy, that every
time man undertakes to manufacture n
little Bible Oh his own account, he makes
mortifyirg failure Of it. He is caught
at 1T, md i'll Onc-tenth Tho time i, took
him to conceive his fraud, in rs many
hours rs it took him months to prepare
it, he is exposed, and his hand made ad-
dition to the Bible is swept away in the
other rubbish of other counterfeiters.
You see, my son, tho Bible doesn't need
any of these 10Th century proofs of its
truth; it needs tho word of no man to
establish its gcnuincncss; it has stood by
itself, "an anvil TINT has worn out many
hammers" through century after CEN
fury, unchanged and Interchangeable.
Every time man manufactures new
verso or new chapter, we know it is
not genuine, we detect the counterfeit.
The Bible has no need of the support
ing prop of fraudulent ark or leather
Deuteronomy. There was n complete
Bible centuries before Shapiro hap
pcncd and there will bo the same Bible
ages after Shapira and his patent Deu-
teronomy have together crumhlcd
into indistinguishable dust. The
Bible doesn't need our help, our testi-
mony, our Endorsement. And if there
had never been discovered III oil tho
world. n bit of parchment, piece of
pottery or n scratched stone tho Bible
would be just rs strong us it is to-day,
and men would believe just rs firmly
and trustfully in its truth. Don't you
worry, my boy, because Shapira's an
cient manuscript was written with Lon
don ink, and don't fret because the ark
in the glacier turns out to be put to-
gcther with Pittsburg nails. That oil
the frauds on the Bible and its history
are so quickly and easily detected,
should only convince you how impossi-
bic it is for man to counterfeit the work
of God. Wait until some man fools us
with an artificial moon; and until some
philosopher stores away the sunlight in
parlor lamps, before you believe That
man cnn successfully initiate what man
never made. BURDETTE-
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DOES DEdTH END Mr.

Yes, death ends all the puny fcuds of man
The earthly fcvcrs and tho strife for gold,
Which mako life seem as somo ha!f-fn;8hcd
plan,
And look 80 little when the talo is told
Men strive while each circumstance to
mould,
To meet some feeble purpose of the heart,
Then ncars the cnd-tho blood grows thin
and cold, ..
And thon the soul, grown tired of limo and
Art,
Half forms tho wish that it might soon depart.
Death ends the platform quibbling of The weak
Who only caper to make mankind stare.
Scant is the meaning in the words they speak
More sca:lt the judgment in the crcods they
share;
But then, this land is free as Gods own air
And mon arc FREQ to institute rare schools
TO mock morality and snccr NJ prayers
TO perch themselves on scientific stools,
And mctc out wisdom-or be simply FOOLS
Death ends all doubling, doubt belongs 10
We know so little Of our own estate.
Wo grow impatient close upon our birth;
And few there be WHO know Ills we'll to wait
Such small successes make the heart clatc,
or Gods deep wisdom, measurclcss and
great.
Our pigmy judgment sccs the world amiss,
And charges to His namc--dcath ends all this
But what of mans sublimcr part, tho soul?
Hath it no longing scarcely satisfied?
Does this life seem to it mighty whole,
Or but wave on the eternal tide
A stream 30 narrow to n sea so wide?
All still to reason, when lifc's ending ncars,
Ono thought is paramount DER all beside
A wish to rise to more exalted spheres.
And progress still through everlasting years.
Whence comes this wish? Did the eternal ono
Furnish al things the spirit fairly knows
With tastes fulfilled. and leave the poul undonc?
Not So Toward the sun tho !cafet grows.
While from the sun the leaflets living flows.
Thus shau tho soul, through deaths dark
shadows fall
Find what it Graves whcre'cr its cs 'cnco goes.
And through the tcGr-couds that surround the
pail
Behold this legcnd-dcaih docs not end all.
WILLIAM LYLE in Rochester Union.
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In me Brave Days Of OLD. I,

A correspondent of the Chicago Infer.
Ocean, writing from the ancienS town a
Yarmouth, Ne, says: There are some
good stories told about the old meeting
mouse, Of which nothing remains now
but the vane, which some enthusiastio
aitiqnarians have placed upon uthe
led8e ono of the hills of the town n
was the first church built i'm Maine = Tn +,
those days every man carried bia ,nnalI,ts
to church with him, and these wesSs.
stacked outside the door. while tba as,.
tinels kept watch during the service ana
others were posted at different uoint, !
through the town. Ono quiet Safhath ~
while the preacher held forth upone etbs
ruin of unbelievers, and the copereoa-
tion slumbered peacefully in their high.
backed pews, q signal gun was heard
from the Princes Point Station. An
other sharp report followed, and still an
other. The minister did not wait for
tie filthy in his discourse, but dashed
down the pulpit stairs and Joined the
excited multitude outside. From their
commanding situation they saw strange
craft sailing up Casco Bay. It carried
no celors. They could SEQ no men on
it's deck. After n hui. led consultation
it was decided to send an armed depu-
tation to Princes Point to find out the
mission of the mysterious vessel. The
women and children, with few men for
defence, remained on the hill, while the
heroic band marched down to the point
and awaited the arrival Of the stranger.
An hour passed and they returned. The
bark vast schooner from down the
coast which had sailed up for timber
Tho Chronicle tells only the bare story,
and with grain of facetiou,,eass,- as If
the humor was evident enough without
any comments. It does not attempt to
account either for the fall of the plaster
i'll the same church Mt tho very moment
when tho parson, a gloomy man with q
sonorous voice and pessimistic views of
life, was enlarging on the passage
"Blow ye the trumpet! Babylon shall
fall and become heaps" but simply says
that "the people thought that the end OF
tho world had come, and did leave the
meeting house in great distraction, in
iuring woman seriously by trampling
upon her i'll their haste to got out of the
| door -
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allow me this sum, it will relieve me Of 9
great trouble"
"Let it be So" angrily exclaimed the
Deacon.
AS he went out, he muttered tc him
self, My wife taking in sowing The
worlds people will never stop sneering
at me. Taking in sewing Pretty story
Never can tell what q woman will do
Most unreasonable creatures in the
world Taking in sewing Wouldn't
had it happen for ton thousand dollars
The worlds people will never stop laugh
ing about it,"
With persons in comfortable circum.
stances this is good and wiso cxpedient.
Most happily have known it to work
IN number of cases. 1t has many ad-
rantagcs; 1t is honest, convincing and
effective. 1t challenges the respect Of
the husband, and if done in a gentle
spirit awakcns his sympathy and sense
! OF justice. With little patience think
1t will prove uniformly successful.
Most husbands will Indignantly de-
| hounce all such intcrft renee with tho
management of their families. If n
! husband goes astray, nine men in ten are
lurlous mt the tale-hearcr who commup;-
Gates with the wife; but let the wife 90
astray, how full of sympathy and help
ior tho wrongcd husband these same
nine men are.
Gentlemen, husbands, has not
this animal, brutal seliishncss gone
about far enough? Has not the time
come, IN the race Of life, to remove all
obstacles from the pathway of those
whom we call "thc weaker vessels ?" II
either of us must be handicapped, which
do you, bravo men, say it shnll be p
DiO LcWiS's MOuthIy.
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TIE South Carolina railway is tn,
most remarkable railway in the United
States. 1t il tho first railway built il
t.H south, if not in tho United States
its mileage hes not been added to or re
duc"d Gi''cc it's complc ion; it has neyo
passed ont Ct tho hands or mnnagcmcn
of it! a!ockI"lders; Hnd has always bcel
Blc@"ssful and profitable. From Charles
ton, Gonth Carolina, to Augusta, Georgia
and from Charleston to Columbia aro III
lines.
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TIE Southern immigration eocicty, or
Ganizcd i'll Louiuville, last month, pro
po"es to build immigrants reception
houses at southern ports, and brin,
Switzcrs and Germans over direct. The,
instance Switzer who sold his forty
nine acre farm i'll Switzerland, on whicl
ho Was ciiing out al oxiotonce, for enough
money to buy ono hundred and fit,
ceres i'll America, pay his way over hero
stock his farm and run it ono year Tha
was Good swap.
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TIE progress Of the Panama canal
should be a source of conGratulaton to
all who take an interest in permanent
works for the convenience Of mankind.
When NJ. do L sscps broke ground he
had 100, 600, 900 cubic metres of earth to
L, move. lie has already taken ont abont
100000 cubic metres, and after the iNrst
day Of December he expects, through an
increased forcc Of mon and machinery,
to excavNto 1000, 900 metres month.
IIls would enable him to finish the canal
III 1883. Tho workmon arc negroes from
the West India islands, md all the Pre-.
dictions Of disease and death anon?
them have been neGNtived. The con-.
pletion Of the canal within five years i,
we'll assured.
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TIE growth of tho South continues to
astonish the people Of the sluggish oast-
ern and middle states. When wealth is
accumulating III the South at the rate of
$lG0,O00,O00 Il year; when the railroad
mileage ia keeping pace with the increase
in wealth, and when the number of spin
dies has been doubled since the census
yoor-whcn they read about such facts
as these, they begin TO think that the
South has q future, and to wonder how
uoh things can be ont of their own Soc
Ion. Then, too, they sec that southern
cotton mills arc dividing from fifteon to
twenty per cont. on the capital invested,
when their own mi Is are struggling to
keep out OF bankruptcy. Altogether, the
southern side Of the country is looking
pp,-Atlanta Constitution,
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Miss PHGBE CoUzINs, who was in the
vicinity of the Minnesota cyclone, was
reported among the lost. She writes
that she is safe. 1t appears that when
she saw the cyclone approaching she
commenced to deliver ono of her wo-
mons rights speeches, when the bosom
of destruction suddenly turned on its
heel and went howlng hnwlfully over
the prairics in another direction Nor.
ri8fOWn UCraH.
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many.

TuUs far this season tho representa-
tivcs of tho Dwyo Brothers stable have
won folty- eight races and $132.300 it
money. OF this amount Miss Woodfert
la, Won 2,085; George Kinney, $780,
O15; Barnca, $17, 7,9l5; Bootjack, S9,G10
Burton, $7,775; Wandering, $3.50; &c
ualor, 81, $3.50; Hartford, $1,3G0; King
Fan, %r15; Carlcy B., &l75, and Groon
bush, SlGO
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GERMANY has five hundred mills Tor
Tho manufacture Of wood pulp, Such a
degree CT perfection has been attained
in the treatment that oven for tho the
bcttor. qualities Of paper tho wood pulp
is substituted for pulp made from rags.
Ib constitutes scventy-five per cent. ci
thc paper stock used throughout Ger.
m3DY.
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"WHAT would you do if Sou were I,
and [ were you?" tendcrly ipquirei a
young swell of his lady friend, MS h1 es.
corted her from cm r5h. "Wel'," she
said, "if were you would thrc away
that vile cigarette, cut up nv cane for
fircwood, wear my watch. chain under
meath my coat, and stay at home nights
and pray for brains ~
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LET mcnagcrie snake Twenty-Five
feet long he placed in some inland lal;e,
let three dcacons make oath of seeing it,
and not one newspaper reader i'll tif'y
wouid have the least faith. The busl.
ness has been lied to death. - Detroit
Free Press.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

TIE loss by fire in this country and
Canada 10 rising 10 startling proportions.
In tho liyrS Elk months of this year there
wcrc G, ,175 reported fros, involving loSs
CT nearly $lS,O00,O00.