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Year: 1874

II there has been one thing more thar
another that we have wished for, it wa
harmony in the Democratic Conservative
party OF Crawford, that We might 60 ints
a County Convention and put out ticke
that would command the support of every
Democrat aud Conservative. But ou
efforts failed and the efforts of the Hoa
Jesse Turner and q. J. Brown to th'
same end also failed. The resolutions
offered by Mr. Turner, (which we pub
lish in the proceedings Of the Conven
tion), and his speech in explanation OF
them brealhed the spirit Of harmony and
concession All he asked Of the meeting
was that i, should be pledge to abide the
action Of the State Convention, to which
they were to appoint Delegates. But
no, Col. Locke and Wilcox would not
consent that the meeting should be
pledged, knowing full well that no dele
cation could be admitted into the State
Convention, unless pledged to abide its
action. II they would not do that, they
had no business it.


Finding that there could be no har.
monious adjustment of the question, two
meetings were held - one pledged to
abide the action Of the State Den ocratic.
Conservative Convention. and the other
refusing, by voting down the resolutions
offered by Mr. Turner.


Mark Gne consistency OF Locke and
Wilcox--they would have none but
straight out pure Democrat for office, but
called to the chair to preside over their
deliberations an out and out Radical,
who never cast Democratic vote in his
ife. And further on they instruct fo'
a Circuit Judge an out and out Radical
Republican, who don't propose TO be
anything else and who has too much
self respect to pretend that he is what he
10 not.


These are the men who, through feaI
that Gov. Baxter will receive the nomi
nation of the Democratic Conservative
State Convention, refuse to abide its nc
| ton.


Gov. Baxter Is not and never was o
| Radical We have the word Of Gen
Thomson that at the beginning of the
! war lie was Douglass Democrat and was
an Elector on that ticket No act of his
life can be pointed at as in harmony with
! the radcal:sm OF the Powell Clayton
stamp


We warn the Democracy Of Crawford
to watch well where they arc drifting in
following the lead Of the men who ma
nipulated the meeting presided over ny
that old died-in the wool Radical, y H.
Creekmore.


The only safety Of the people Of Ar
kansas is in standing to the nominees OF
the Democratic State Convention, let

them be who they may. We all may
have preferences for other men than those
who may be put in nomination, but is
that any reason why we should turn the
State over into the hands Of Powell Clay
ton and his horde, who is the insli,a, on
of all these insuri dictionary movements
now on toot to make new party.


There will be but two parties in the
State this Fall one led by the nominees
Of the Democratic State Convention OF
the Sth September and the other led by
the cmissares Of Powell Clayton. Watch
well where you are drifting Democrats
in following the leaders ofa" new party


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Year: 1874

E1' A Worcester boy was engaged in
nocturnal cherry stealing, a short time
ago, and was observed by the owner of
the fruit. who, unnoticed 10y the young
robher. placed large stuffed dog at the
foot Of the tree, and retired to watch the
result Of his strategy. The boy descend.
ing observed the dog, and then the fun
commenced, he whisted, conxed. threat.
ened unavailngly, the animal never
moving, and finally the youth, accepting
the inevitable, settled down to passing
the night in the tree. After some hours
had passed wearily enough to the LAD.
morning dawned and the proprietor OF
the tree coming from the house asked
him how he came to he in the tree, to
which the boy answered that he took to
it to save himself from the dog, who had
chased him quite distance. 1t isn't
healthy for smaller boy to say stuffed
dog to that youth now.
Year: 1874

EE The witty wife Of a noted prac.
tising physician advised her husband to
keep away from the funerals Of his pa
tients, as il looked too much like q tail.
or carrying home his own work
Year: 1874

Lift little lift little


Neighbor, lend helping hand
TO that heavy laden brother,


Who for weakness scarce can stand.
What to thee, with thy strong muscle,
Seems light and easy load,
Is to him ponderous burden,


Cumbering his pilgrim road.
Lift little Lit little


Effort gives one added strength;
That which staggers him when rising
Thou canst hold at arms full length.
Not his fault that he is feeble,


Not thy praise that thou art strong;
1t is God makes lives to differ,


Some from waiting, some from song.
Lift little lift little!


Many they who need thine aid;
Many lying by the roadside,


'Nealh misiortune's dreary shade;
Pass not by like Priest and Levite,
Needless of thy fellow man;
but with heart and arms extended,
BE the Good Samaritan.
Year: 1874

From the New Orleans Picayune.l
We have received a bundle OF stalks of cane OF
arst year rattoons from the Story plantation, nine
miles below the city. We have never seen such
advanced growth at this season Of the year. The
stalks are seven or eight ieet high, and are jointed
over three leet
Year: 1874

l tell you, men and women, the fact that
in these neglected and deserted towns there
lives such man and family about him,
where God and his law and bis name and his
day are reverenced and proclaimed by deed
as well as by word, is what we may count on
as our chief hope for the future. The
church rising in the village, its spire outtop-
ping the highest trees, its horse-sheds and
vestibules knitting the men and women into
neighborly kindness, its pulpit the lastStrong-
hold of piety-wby, that very building is a
protest, and an eloquent one, against sim
Men who have no higher interest than the
value of their property are not worldly-wise,
even, if they do not see that for e holy man
to speak within those walls, and 60 to and
fro under those trees, and knit together all
that is law-abidiDg, moral, aud grand in that
town, is the highest of all needs to insure
order and prosperity. And if that mao is
not dull; and if he has soul and is not
afraid to let it out; if he has mind and is
not afraid to use it; if he be even awkward
and ill-clothed, yet good, true, pure, man.
loving, and God fearing g-there is place fol
him.


Consider the boon that one educated min
lister is to rural town, even from a lower
side than | have limited at See what al
advantage that, in place from which the
streams of young life are constantly flowing
city-ward, there is a man of education, whc
can watch over the schools, inaugurate lee
lures, buy and lend books, awaken an in
terest in good newspapers, foster the lOca
history, and be the living centre of those in
terests which are patriotic and educational
Then look at the side which was limited at
few moments ago; the strength which such
mans presence gives to law and order
the rebuke which his very life is constantly
giving to profanity and brawling and drunk
enness and impurity Think how such q
man naturally fosters qniet, the care oi
roads, the keeping up of neatness and beau.
ty of buildings, the general good husbandry
Year: 1874

The strength of the American republic is
the universal desire to own house. 1t is
moulding all the people, native and foreign
born, into one homogeneous mass. The ow-
nership of home is something which neither
the Irish peasant nor the German laborer
has, in his own country, any conception, but
it is here the goal of his hopes and desires.
Education comes; it is something the need
of which is not felt until the adornment of a
home is thought of. The desire to own the
roof under which one sleeps is instnctively
an American characteristic, and seems by
nature adapted to the growth which is rails
ing US in Importance in the scale of nations.
1t is the link which connects the man with
government; it adds to his interest in the
making and execution of laws, and Identifies
him with the usages and customs of the peo-
pie. 1t is the element which gives Switzer-
land their unity and power, and the lack of
its causes nine tenths of the unrest in Ire.
land No feeling is stronger than the at
tachments of home, and no nation whose peo-
pie possess this as a common sentiment can
lose its liberty.
Year: 1874

OH could there in this world be found
Some little spot Of happy ground,


Without the village tatt ing


How d ubly blest hat spot would be
Where sll might dwell in liberty,
Free from the bitter misery,


OF gossips' endless prattling.
II such spot were really known,
Dame Peace might call it all her own,
And in it she might 6x her throne,


For ever and for ever:
There ike a queen might reign and live,
While every one would soon forgive
The little sights they might receive,


And be offended never.
'Tis mischief makers that remove
Far from our hearts that warmth of love,
Ard lead US all to disapprOve


What gives another pleasure;
They seem to take ones part-but when
They've heard our cares, unkindly then
They soon retail them out again,


Mixed up with poisonous measures.
Aad then y se e. q cunni-g va
OF telling I'll meant tales, they say,
" Don't mention it, pray,


would not tell snother:"
Straight to your neighbors then they go,
Narrating everything they know;
And break the peace of high and low,


Wife, husband, friend and brother.
Oh that the misunderstanding crew
Were all reduced to one or two,
And they were painted red or blue,


That every one might know them
Then would our villagers forget
To rage and quarrel, fume and fret,
And falling into angry pet,


With things so much below them.
For tbs sad, degrading part,
To make snother's bosom smart,
And plant dagger in the heart,


We ought to love and cherish.
Then let us evsrmore be found
In quietness with all around,
While friendship, JOY and peace abound
And angry feelings perish.
Year: 1874

GRACE makes a good heart-memory, even
where there is bad head memory.


GIVING to the Lord is but transporting
our goods to higher floor.


He THAT lays out for God, lays up for
him.


The Two CALLs.-GOd calls men when
they are busy; Satan when he finds them
idle.
Year: 1874

NTANTED-A PARTNER IN AN ESTABLISHED
w business as Carpenter and Builder, with about
$4,000 capital; must be good business or practi-
cal carpenter. Address BUILDER Herald Uptown
Branch office.
Year: 1874

Judge Brady rendered yesterday his decision
on the recent application In the Tweed case holding
that the plea OF John Graham and his associates
not sound. When Tweed sentenced, Judge Davis
gave sentence each four sets OF In the
first sentence he named the County Jail place OF


imprisonment; in tho second and third he mentioned
place ALL and In the remainder he named the County
Jail In making out the commitment, Mr.. Sparks, the
clerk asked the Judge which place OF imprisonment
meant by County JAIL and told the Penitentiary
The Of that institution accordingly serted and
few days ago Tweeds counsel into court moving
that the official record Of the sentence should be
correspond with that actually delivered, trans
scribed by the stenographer. After argument
this consented TO by tho prosecution. Mr.. Graham.
not yet satisfied demanded that the record should be
made 10 correspond exactly with the oral sentence and
that the second and third sentences must be left they
were delivered. without any place Of imprisonment
being named. This decidedly objected to. and
It Is this motion that Judge Brady decides the follow
ing opinion:


There several answers TO this motion l. Although
the act which this Court asked to perform said
the precise sentence pronounced should be made prop
ery before this Court with the Justice presdng who
pronounced the Judgment OF the Court upon the
vicon. The application 10 to conform the minute made
by the clerk to the sentence was delivered by the


q waving thar, however and looking at the form Of
the sentence itse there is in effect no legal difference
between 10 aud that contained In tbs minutes The first
punishment declared upon the fourth count and
was that the defendant DO mprisoned in tho County
Jail for the term OF year The second upon the
fifth, sixth seventh, and eighth counts OF the ndic
menf, and these words That you be Imprisoned
the further term of one year. 10 commence from the
termination Of the first term. The third upon the
NINTH tenth eleventh and twelfth counts and In these
words: That you be imprisoned for the term OF one
year, TO commence from the expiration Of the second
term OF your imprisonment" The words County jail
OF this county omitted from the second and third
runishments' but tho relation Of TINS part OF the
employed quite apparent. and they became incorpora
ted In u by such relation The language for further
term Of one yess, v eoumepOo from the Nrmpstiop ot
Year: 1874

Thomas Fitzgerald was tried yesterday, in
the Court Of General Sessions, before Judge Sutherland
for stealing bar of gold valued at O g. the property
OF kountze Brothers, brokers, Feb. IA 1t was shown
that the bar OF gold OF bag and that the
prisoner picked II up and sold IT, In his defense he ad
mitted picking It up, but denied all knowledge OF its
ownership until after II had been disposed Of The point
Involved. as stated In the charge to the fury was
whether Fitzgerald used sufficient diligence to ascertain
who was the owner Upon this point hung the que ston
OF his guilt or innocence The jury remained out for
nearly two hours, and then brought in q verdict OF
acuuittAl.
Year: 1874

There is marked and violent change,
it will be noticed, in the delegations to
the 37th, 38th and 39th Congresses, and
decided changes in the 10th and 43d
Congresses, inclusive. The results of
the present elections will contribute to
the number of Quotations rather than
to the Democratic assumption that their
strength is increasing and that of the
Republicans diminishing.


The Democrats are welcome to all the
comfort they can extract from their VIC
tories. 1t results only in making them
extravagant in speech and reckless in
conduct, and so insures their objection
to Republican majOrities again. They
already begin to talk of convulsing the
commercial interests of the country by
destroying the national banking system
and introducing wildcat banking. They
will injure the credit of the country by
their schemes of reputation and their
war against the financial stability of the
nation. But after doing all possible
harm they will be under again, and will
wonder what has become of their grand
victories and the expected overthrow of
their opponents.
Year: 1874

been too much for me. 1t was night


when | did it, and fancied the means


put it beyond the reach of discovery.


was mistaken, and pay the penalty of
that mistake freely now. That doctor
is shrewd practitioner. A man does
not counterfeit madness with him with
impunity. Had he been as wise in his
way as the detective was in his. the law
would not have been cheated of its prey.
had my reasons for the deed, fully n
potent as those l have for this"


Here followed the signature of the su
icide, traced in full, bold hand


turned to the physician and the
officer who were with Inc. and had read
the letter over my shoulder


must confess that l think my face
showed triumph-triumph at having
succeeded in tracking and taking Grim
inal so adriot and calculating-and pos
sibly had some good ground for being
elated.


did not ask the family of the muir
dered man for a reward, but carried
away the air syringe, and l have it to
this day. have made repeated experi-
ments with it since it came in my posses
sion, and each succeeding one but con-
vinces Inc the more of its deadly and
dangerous character.


There is another thing must say be-
fore l close, and that is this: 1 have
solved the mystery of that limp piece of
handkerchief / found Oh the day un-
dertook the investigation of the affair
have just been speaking of; it was EN-
ployed by the murderer to repress and
keep back the slight foam that always
flies from the mouth of the subject
whenever submitted to the action of the
syringe.


look back upon this adventure now
as one of the most important events in
my career. and take pride in telling it
over and over again. 1t shows that
science is connected with the detection
of crime, and it also shows from what a
slight link massive chain of conclusive
evidence may be forged. 1 say look
back to it with pride, and 1 can only
hope that an intelligent public will hear
and approve my recital-the story OF the
Unknown Death.
Year: 1874

The Democrats will, of course, make
the most of their success in Ohio and In
diana: but their exultation will have lit
tie effect upon the facts of the case. If
they boast. and crow, and chirrup over
uDsubstantial victories they are the los
ers and deceived after ALL Their noise
may be annoying TO their opponents, but
unless there is grave and good reason for
it, they are only fooliI g Themselves That
1t is not an extraordinary victory in eth
er State may readily be seen by examin-
ing the past vote of these two States
The following are the majorities in Ohio
for the last fifteen years:
Year: 1874

The changes in the character of the
delegation to the 3Sth Congress from
that of the 37th, and back again to that
of the 39th is even more marked than
the one which now fills the Democrats
with so much enthusiasm.


Let us look at the record of Indiana
najorities since 1860:
Year: 1874

From the Detroit Press.I


He is dead. He died the other day,
and there were fourteen hacks nt the
funeral, and many persons we're truly
grieved, although the young man many
good qualities were not generally known.
he assisted his father in an Office on
one of the avenues; but even his 'ather
didn't know how much he was assisted
for he was gone much Of the time, lesv-
ing John in sole charge. After little
preparation the young man was ready to
receive callers. When a book agent
dropped in to ask him to subscribe for
the last thing out, John arose, made a
nolite bow, and asked him to be seated
for inst one moment. The book agent
would drop himself into the big arm
chair waiting at the corner OF the table,
but he wonld rise up like green bay
tree, and a good deal quicker. Five or
six eight.ounoe tacks we're ingeniously
arranged in a group on the bottom OF
the chair, and after getting up and draw
ing them with q claw hammer, which
was always lying in sight, the agent
wouldn't feel ike going on and explain
ing how his book was outselling every
other book. He always went down
stairs without saying another word about
his book, and young John would follow
along and bow to him and say that the
office boy was deserving Of death for
nIaviug such tricks on strangers.


Then be had a mild way with agents
Who were eauyassing for adve-dsements
for weekly sheets. He would say TO
them:


"Certainly, we want to advertise. Ho
think your paper is the best advertising
medipm in Detroit. Call in at noon.


The agent would call and find the door
locked, asd young John at dinner, and
he would loaf around end lose "noie
hour. only to be told to come at hyer
when John would be at supper. tinaliS'
when the agent began to grow hFea' he
would be told that advertising didn
seem to be what it was few years ago
and that il they concluded to advertise
they would send It down. BE would b'
asked to have q cigar, and while be wa
smoking away on the street the hre WociC
find powder and the agents eyss would
get a dose sufficient to keep him LAID %
for a week


Young John knew the step OF thes'
men who 60 around canyassing TO
money for the heather. and when b
heard one coming up stairs he hurriedl.
arranged q string running down iron
the TOP Of the door, lodged into anothe
room, and when the canvasser for th
heather opened the door pail Of Eate
Year: 1874

fell on him, knocking off his hat and
wetting him down like a fall from the
wharf. When he heard the pail fall
John would jump out and be greatly
surprised aud sympsthize deeply, and
agree to have "the Office boy arrested
within an hour. The canvassers always
slid down stairs without asking him for
any money. and the pail was arranged
for another victim.


And young John would be attacked
with colo when the life insurance man
came in, and the way he would roll up
his eyes and glare at him would cause
him to back down stairs. And he had a
way to discourage the boy with the hat.
rack, the man with the glass-cutter and
the woman with pen.wipers, and it got
so at last that no one ever came up
these stairs unless he was full OF the
most earnest kind Of business


Poor young john His like we may
never look upon again.
Year: 1874

A VeIoctpede against n Horse on
the Shell Road.


From the New Orleans Times. 18TH


Many persons have witnessed the evo-
lutions OF Professor Brown, at the Acad
emy Of Music within the last ten days,
and have wondered at the proficiency he
has acquired in the management OF that
treacherous vehicle yclept velocipede
The celebrity of his movements on the
stage impressed nearly oil who saw him
with a belief that he could easily get
over a reasonable amount of ground
under favorable circumstances, at the
rate OF about mile minute, IF not
sooner" The professor had wonderful
faith in his velocipede, and while
out driving the other evening with
Mr.. Hugo Redwitz, a race was er
ranged between them-Redwitz to drive
his horse to buggy and Brown to ride
his bycicle, over the shell road from
Charlie Hoyt's to the Halt Way House,
a distance of two miles and half. The
stake was dinner at Hoyts for dozen
people. Accordingly the parties, with
friends, repaired to the gay and festive
Charles, and after partaking OF one OF
his most sumptuous spreads, made prep
arations for the race Both parties
claimed good record, Redwitz affirming
that his nag Billy Pinchback had scored
2:44, and the professor alleging that he
had made mile in 2.26 against Lula
over the Buffalo track, beating the mare,
whose time was 2:29. Reduced to these
figures, it looked rather dubious for the
horse, and consequently there was found
those who were willing to plank down
their shekels at odds in favor of the bicy'
Gle, With no takers. 1t appeared that
the only chances Of success for the
horse rested with the great unevenness
of the road, and large amount OF dust
which had accumulated, and VII lch 1t
was very evident would offer consldera'
BILE resistance to the progress OF the
velocipede. This ultimately proved
true, and brought the Professor and his
wheeled concern to grief; tor after a
close and very spirited contest over the
greater portion OF the course, the horse
drew away on the last quarter, and game
in winner by about fifteen lengths.


Just before the termination of the
race the Professor lost considerable
ground by having to give way to several
buggies which he encountered. The
race was quite novel one, and had 1t
been generally known there would have
been a number OF persons out to wit
ness it,