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Year: 1879

BEG PARDON The extreme length of
the Election Proclamation coupled with
other New Advertisements has crowded
the JOURNAL this week and not left as
much room us should be reserved for
news and other matters.
Year: 1879

THE LOCAL CANvA>s.-A bout all of
the candidates for County Olfi1ers have
been in town this week, running with the
crowd. Less than three weeks now re-
main and they vii! be busy on the out
side hereafter. Won't they be glad
when it is over
Year: 1879

THE Examiner in endorsing the move
ment for the public reception of General
Grant, manifests cred table magnanimity.
1t says: "General Grant has voyaced
and travelled eastward, similarly in para
dox of direction, and is now from the
Orien: to this fariherest western shore of
of his native lard coming to cross the
broad cont inent to his home. And here
he will receive such greeting and such
welcome as will eclipse the most hearty
md the most imposing that it has been
his singular fortune TO meet in any Of tho
nations or cities he has visited. It will
lack the glittering splendor and regal
pageantry, the pompous ceremonial and
ostentations magn ilcence of his reception
in some of the great cities and at the
courts of royalty; hut it will deeper i'm T.
press and more sensibly and gratefully
infect him, because ii will be the native
offering from generous impulse and heart
felt emotion sprung as the substantial de-
monstratlon of the feeling here entertain.
ed for him IN the light OF his plain citizen,
ship and IN remem brance of the exalted
positions he has filed, and from which he
has retired to the charm of p rivato life. ,
Now is not that good, very good, for the
Examiner.
Year: 1879

Never before was this caption more ap.
used than on the present oc-
casion. TIE grand reception TO General
and ex President U Ulysses S. Grant at
San Francisco this week doubtless great
ly exceeded any previous like occurrence
on the Pacific Slope, and wed in splendor
and completeness with the greatest ef-
forts of the civilized world to show honor
to the great captain and statesman. The
arrangements made for his reception were
most complete and imposing. They in
cude a naval pageant unexampled in the
history Of this country ard procession
of the utmost magnifeence. Everything
which can float and carry colors will oc-
cupy n position on the Bay while every
body and thing will take part in the
grand triunphal march. The spontanei
ty and unanimity Of the Welcome TO
Grant is one OF its most remarkable and
satisfactory features. Patriotism, broad
and liberal, rules the hour while party
Sliiic Hilu ulSCplu pHiy ~ IcOt'Aly nv ~
yer heat is forgotten for the nonce and all
join as American citizens to do reverence
and honor to their ilustrious fellow-coun.
tryman. Says city exchange: The
unanimity of the welcome will be one Of
its most remarkable features. Partisan
ship will be lost sight of in the patriotic
feeling OF the hour. in the thought that
the city is receiving home again patriot
and soldier whose deeds are the honor
and pride Of his country. and whose fame
j. Of that barge kind which fills the world.
General Grants arrival will be univer-
sal holiday. Stores will be closed, pub
lie offices vacated, school rooms emptr,
homes forsaken. Every craft on the bay
which turns wheel, spreads sai or
plies mn oar will be loosed from its moor
ings and swell the feet that escorts the
great Captain from the Inn its of the sea
into our own quiet waters. The streets
will be thronged as they have never been
thronged before, and by crowd whose
morale is far above that which watches
with satcd eyes the passage of the con-
vcntional pageant of Fourth of July pa


triotism. The welcome will come from
all that is good, strong and intellectual in


the city.'
Year: 1879


Why does the bud that is near to its breaking
Wake sweeter smiles than the fulIy-blown
rose?


Why does the dream on the verge Of awaking
Stir deeper truths than deeper repose?
Why does the love that is broken with parting
Lift itself higher by the fullness of pain7
Why is the incomplete rapture of starting
Close on completion we never attain?
Why! For a boundless unSatisfled longing
Lies deepest down in the warm human heart
Ever with this are the sympathies thronging,
Ever by this do the heaven-1owers start.
Grow with our spring. we can follow you
wholly


Only as far as its instincts are sent;
Summers . fact that's hidden and holy,
We have not seen it we are not content.


Il Sunday Afternoon.
Year: 1879

| Of course no woman ever did such a


thing, but supposing now, for the sake
of argument, as it were, that woman


were to 60 to church for the purpose of


showing off her new sacque, would it be
sac religion.
Year: 1879

n THREE YEARS will help to make a
man ambitious to excel in his work, a
result not to be expected from one years
term. Council, we think, did right on
7 Thursday night in this regard. d.--Herald.
sf who viii Be eeesd sa sdet Sr GmmssSn f9rse seans
may "excel in his work !" but the cham
ccs are equal that he will not excel, and
il, that case we have deprived ourselves


OF remedy for three years. The mea-
sure was very doubtful one, to say the


least of it, and when it is reflected that
tile term is extended in order to give the


Office to a gentleman favorable to the


majority, it becomes still more objection
able; for whenever the Republicans sue
coed to a majority of the Council, they
may cite this action for extending the
terms of other city officers. But the Re-
publicans will not be able to claim the
extension by the Democrats on Thurs
day night as partisan movement, be-
cause enough Republicans voted for the
extension to have defeated the measure
had they voted with the Democrats who
opposed it and voted against it. As the
thing has been done we hope that the
choice of Street Commissioner may be
such as to make the extension of the
term beneficial during the next three
Years at least. ,.. 7f DO -rI4lr ..l
Year: 1879




III THE HOUSE BILL making II unlawful
- use the government troops atthe polls
On election days passed the Senate yester-
day. The vote was q strictly. party one
--8S to 2S. The correspondent of the
New York Herald says another veto is
anticipated, but adds that many Of the
Democratic Senators would prefer that
the President would veto the bill, because
It would aid them in the campaign. We
prefer that the bill should be signed, but
. believe that public sentiment has always
been adverse to the use of troops at cleo
ton polls, and that as the Democrats
have heretofore carried the elections with
4 the troops against them they can do II
! again. iiy ti 70 .aa-otsl eH la oil.


The people of this country have ever
been jealous of their civil rights, and sus-
: rlcious of the use of the military. They
have ever feared to entrust their liberty
TO the army. 1t is not composed Of men
who care for civil rights--it is the reverse
siof liberal--in it there is no libery-the
q obsequious submission Of every off,
Ger TO his superior, as was shown in case
h Of Belknap's scandalous conduct while
- Cabinet officer, is proof of this. Al
though his under officers knew he was
!, ,,sobbing the government, they did not
dare to tell 1t even TO the Presidept--they
q did not dare to communicate the fact to
Belknaps superior except through Bel
knap himself. A long series Of years in
. the camp, therefore, makes an aristocral
] Of an officer almost in spite of himself
s Tile people know this and know that the
rank and 6le Of the army are the meres
b. slavesin obedience and may be ordered
IS to do any kind of dirty work, and ye
may be put opt Of the way as witnesses
The knowledge of these facts has Away
4 made the people averse to encounterin,
the troops of the army at the polls ant


they will not endure their presence
Their use at the polls in the South unde
Grant, although in favor Of the Republi
can party, yet made enemies to tina
Z party and votes against it all over tn


North and consolidated the South for tn
- Democrats. bti .e
Year: 1879

In our last weeks issue, we stated thai


B. q. Carroll had long since ceased to be


an agent for The COMET, and that his re-


ceipts for subscription or otherwise would
not be recognized. Mr.. Carroll thinks this
paragraph is calculated to convey the infer
ence that the paper means to charge that
he has attempted to collect and receipt for
The COMET after his retiracy from its
agency, and he AYERS that he has
never done 80. At the time the paragraph
was written we were informed, upon
what seemed TO bo unimpeachable authority,
that he had recently attempted to collect
from gentleman in Brandon, and we nat
urally inferred that if he had done so in
this instance he might have done so or
might do SO in others. Our object was not
to charge him with improperly collecting
for the paper, but simply to announce that
bis authority to do 30 had ceased. Ii turns
out that the instance reported to us in
Brandon Is not true, and that Mr. q.
did not attempt to collect money for The
COMET. AS it was no part of our purpose
to injure Mr.. Carroll or cast damaging
reflection upon him without sufficient cause
we voluntarily give him the benefit of this
explanation.
Year: 1879

BRENNAN TEXAS, Aug. 2, 1879.
70 the Editor of tho Comet:


Our State, alarmed by the news O


yellow fever in Memphis, Now Or


leans and other points, has established
strict quarantine at every accessible point


on her borders; so / fear l shall not soon


have the pleasure of looking over the in


tefesting 6 pages of The COMET again-tht


people hero having been terribly afflicted


by that awful scourge some years ago, are


determined to use every means which God


and nature have placed in their power to


prevent lis introduction. I pray Heaven
they may be successful for it is to be dread
cd, as l can well testify, from having wits
messed its ravages at various times and
places


Texas has suffered enough for one year in
all conscience from the dreadful drouth that
has prevailed nearly all over the State. At
this section it has not rained for three
months and ten days. You may judge the
state of affairs is gloomy.


The grass in the pastures (there is little
or no outside land here) is dried up aud eat
up go, that stock is literally starving; the
watercourses, save the main rivers, dried
up; vegetables in the gardens done for; no
milk OF butter to be had only when the
COWS are fed and even the hens have
quit laying eggs, On the black prairie
lands, and river bottoms, there will be half
crops of corn and cotton made; on the
sandy hill lands not more than one tenth of
an average crop will be gathered.


In some portions of the State west of
this, the drouth has been more extensive
than here To the north and east they
have suffered less. However, we have no
fear of famine; there is plenty of corn
and wheat made for bread, and there are
cattle enough on our thousand hills, to say
nothing of our plains, to furnish meat for
all that are here and all that may come.


This is known as dry country, but such |
an excessive drouth as this is only known |
TO the oldest inhabitant, of which number |
this writer is one.


In the controversy between the Governor |
and the Legislature, referred to in my last, |
regarding the public free school question,
tho "old Alcalde' carried the day. A ma
jority of the Legislature came to his aid /
and sustained his views, and if the question |
was submitted to the people, notwithstand-
ing tho gas of demagogues and few bias
tant partisans, in my opinion the Governor
would be triumphantly sustained. The
question at issue was not the existence of
public free schools, but the mode and extent
of their support. The Governor was-and
is-for retrenchment. The State being large
ly in debt, and the people heavily taxed, he
wished to run the government on tho most
economical basis, and thereupon objected
to extravagant appropriations for free
schools or for any other purpose.


In the opinion of many leading men of
this State, the present system of free pub
lio schools is of doubtful utility, ard ought
10 be at least amended before any appro-
priation whatever is made for their support.
The Legislature, at its late session-called
-made limited allowance for the purpose,
which the Governor sanctioned, and now
all is quiet along the line.


Yours truly, l. APFIEYaIEE I!
Year: 1879

The Virginia Supreme Court Of Appoals
has decided that bachelor cannot claim
exemption the lien of o Judgement under
tho homestead law, the court unanimously
holding that in the phrase householder OF
head of family as used in our coustitu-
ton, the alternative branches of the phrase
are meant to be equivalents Of each other,
and, householder TO ne taken il the sense
Of "ono who has household, and not in
the other sense Of ''unc who holds house
Mobile Register
Year: 1879

The elder Bonny of the Summit Sentinel
claims to be the Oldest quill driver in the
State. OF course it is not our purpose to
dispute his claims to the honor of being
''the veterinarian of the entire State" but
would modestly remark that the senior
editor of the Sentinel established and
published the Advance for a couple Of years,
over thirty years ago, in DeSoto county,
and subsequently for a year co-oditod the
Republican In this place, and then, q year
or so afterwards, published and edited the
Planter and Mechanic in Jackson, We do
not ask to bo classed fist, but brothern Of
the old regime, don't leave us out Grana-
da Sentinel.
Year: 1879

We heard a gentleman, who is politician
of acknowledged sagacity, say that man
who went off after new idols and thought
his absence would be missed in the Demo-
cratic party, was veritable damphool
Year: 1879

This is another institution under the
control OF the city, and it stands out in
bold relief and marked contrast to the
beauty, order and system 80 remarkable in
the institutions of similar character under
the administration of the Little Sisters of
the Poor, of which we have already made
mention. Oar predecessors recommended
the transfer of the inmates of this institu-
tion to the care of the Little Sisters of the
Poor. The present grand jury indorse
that recommendation from humane as we'll
as economical reasons. Evidences of cru
city and oppression are not wanting under
Its present management, and we have the
authority of ex Mayor Pilsbury that it
would be a desirable economy for the city.
And here it may be worthy of remark that
the grand jury have found every public
institution controlled and managed by city
appointees characterized by imbecility,
disorder and ineffi cheney.


BOYS HOUSE OF REFUGE ON META1RIE


RIDGE.


The grand jury are panied to report
that they think the title to this institution
misnomer it should be called the
"Home of ldIeness." or the "Nursery of
Vice. We found 124 boys of all colors
and all ages, ranging from six to twenty
four years, immured in a courtyard, where
the whole day was spent in idleness, with
out instruction or occupation. We venture
to say that in no other community enjoy.
ing the advantages of civilization where
all the smaller industries are cultivated,
and which make the world a workshop,
can such gross and objectionable neg 'ect
OF time and labor be found as we discover
ed here. If this were all it would be bad
enough, but we take into confederation
that every inmate of this institution was
sent there by reason of some crime or
some uncomfortable vice, and that idle-
ness is the parent of both, and add to :hs
the influence of evil association, we are
| forced to the conclusion that the present
management, if not equivalent to positive
| instruction in vice, amounts to it's Silent
encouragement and growth. In the absence
| OF any other suggestion, the grand Jury
recommend the conversion of the Boys'
House of Refuge into workshop where
the boys might be farmed ont to mechanics
Year: 1879

The die is cast, the Rubicon is crossed,
and Hon. J. D. Walker, the "Littlc
Giant of the Great Northwest" is
elected to the United States Senate
from Arkansas. Well,we are satisfied.
We do not feel in the least like crying
over the result-any more than we
would feel like shouting for joy had
our favorite been honored with the
position. 1t is n weakness of ours to
neither run after and fawn before and
sslobber'' over so-called great men, nor
to go wild with either joy or sorrow
over the result of an election.


Those who are acquainted with Hon e.
j, ID. Walker say he is eminently quail
flied to represent Arkansas in the
United States Senate, and they predict
for him brilliant and useful career.
To the first, I'VE cannot notwithstanding
nothing of his abilities-but we are
perfectly willing to take the word of
those who say they know whereof they
speak when they assert that he is; to
the second, we say our hopes and pride
bid us to be of the same way of think
Year: 1879

The large stocks OF gold that have
been locked up in the United States to
prepare for resumption, in Italy under
the suspension of specie payments, and
in the Bank of France, must hoW forth
by and by in fertilizing streams The
effect will probably be to raise slowly
the level of values generally over the
world but that effect will be produced
along with simultaneous advance in
credit. Thus the letting loose of
boarded stores will provide a new
basis for increased activity, and trade
will reap the benefits. There is no
reason for too much dispondency.
Englishmen have lived through worse
times, and have found in them the
stimulus to greater energy, and the
national character is substantially what
it WaS.-LOuCIOit WOr2R.
Year: 1879

ing. Certain it is we will always be
willing to give honor where honor is
due, and to acknowledge in fitting
terms whatever Of good may come to
Arkansas through Mr.. Walkers labor
and influence. We are not at all hurt
because he is elected; aud every effort
of his In behalf of his people will re-
ceive a hearty encouragement from us
as editor of a public journal.


This, we believe, lis Mr.. Walkers
first experience in public life. He has
hard work before him-of both body
and mind. Let him bend himself to
the task. He has our best wishes for a
complete victory.-Hope city Times.
Year: 1879

Springfield, Mass, Letter to Bost on Herald.


A sewing girl in this city has had a
romantic experience, which is worth
the telling. Several months ago n man
at Dubuque, Iowa, advertised in an
Eastern Massachusetts, paper for wife.
Among a swarm of answers which he
received were two from two girls in
this city, who replied just for the fun
of the thing. One of them represented
herself as a young widow, and her
lively account of herself and her cir
cumstances was very largely fictitious,
especially that which told (very inno-
centally, as ii it was Of no conscqucnce)
of the snug sum of money left her by
the dead departed. She never expected
to hear OF the matter again, but that
was the one letter out OF all the adver-
tiser received which struck his fancy
He wrote to the supposed widow I"
(who in fact, had never been married,
and who was then earning her living
with her needfe); photographs were
exchanged; the letters grew more and
more affectionate, until the young wo-
man, realizing that the affair was no
longer a, joke, wrote to her found
admirer and told him frankly Of her
humble circumstances.


OF course he adlnirusl her all the more,
and at last he came from Dubuque to
this city to claim her for his bride.
Instead Of the sleek aud intelligent
looking and manly individual whom
| she expected from his letter and his
Year: 1879

TARIFF OF ADVERTISING RATES.


advertisements will he inserted at one
dollar and fifty cents per square Zone inch
OF space or less) for tho first, and seventy
five cents for each subsequent insertion, for
any time under one month. For longer
periods as follows:
Year: 1879

AN factor, AUTHOR AND PHYSICIAN LECTURES


AT HARRY HILLS THEATRE.


large aud somewhat heterogeneous audience
assembled last evening in Harry Hills Theatre. on
the corner OF Houston aud Crosby streets to hear
DIR. j. W. Van Namme cxpatiate on a multiplicity of
subjects presented writing by several of his audi
sors. The speaker, who was announced combining
in himself the triple qualities of "actor author and
physician appeared on the stage in evening dress.
minus gloves. and with air of self possession
which evidently captured the not critical assem-
blage. Even the astidious proprietor acknowledged
that "'e eld the haudence better than hany lecturer
we've ad yet"


Among the questions presented to the Doctor for
treatment wcre What is your idea of Rev. Dr. Tai
mage 2" lis the use of tobacco injurious to
health o. '.what positive proof you give US of
the truth of spiritualis,n - THE after state of
man" ..who male God % ''rhe manufacture of
machinery by the Japanese, and the commercial re-
latons existing between Japan and the United
States" "Charity." Marriage" empty hearts
The three last mentioned the Doctor said he would
weave into poems. Taking mp the subjects in the
order given, the speaker first paid his respects
was necessary that Mr. Talmage should
a great many words in order to. convey his
ideas, it not necessary that person should
keep a Gospel circus that he might perform
ligious tumbling in the ring. If Mr.. Talmage
make money in no other way. then let him keep on
at it, He has been in this place said the Doctor and
it is credit to him. he came as a hypocrite and
no one here likes hypocrisy. (Applause There is
least honesty here every one gets what he pays
for you kindly treated and civilly served, but
l could not say whether. il Won went
TO the Gospel circus, would be
treated as well. believe that man who would 20
around through the "sums,' as he calls them, and
having received kind. courteous treatment and after
ward stand up in his circus and attempt to ruin
those who have shown him Kindness is anything but
an honorable gentleman In regard to the use of
tobacco lie sad that it injurious to others
sustained no injury by it, and quoted the old say
ing, "One mans meat is another mans poison.
In replying to the question about Spiritualisn the
Doctor, after alludng i'll desultory manner TO the
birth of Christ said that there future and
Spirit ruling all, and that there is no man
earth, having a and dear relative in the spirit
world who has not at times felt tapping at his
heart which he knew was communication from the
spirit of that relative As the speaker said he knew
nothing about the manufacture Of machinery by the
Japanese he had no information to ilnpart on the
subject. Regarding the latter state of man., he
expressed his opinion that there is Power above
SO Just and so that He will ultimately gather in
every one to Himself. CHARITY" marriage and
.empty hearts were each briefly disposed OF in
what the Doctor pleased to call poems, but
his poetic imagination at times took wide and
lofty range from which he would descend by whis-
per to the conclusion OF his metric lines, much that
he said unntellig!ble.
Year: 1879

As it is well known the law some
times murders by means OF circum-
stantial evidence.


One evening young man went 10
see play. Taken with a ft Of cough
ing, be left the theatre. As he strobe
along two young men came rushing
down the street, one of them drop
ping q gold watch and chain. which
the young man picked up, and then
went after the loser, running into the
arms of policeman, who marched
him eff to the station to explain mat
ters.


Presently messenger arrived in
hot haste, saying the thief was want
ed at q central hotel. The unfortun-
ate prisoner was taken there and
brought face to face with man ly-
ing on q lounge covered with blood


as this the man who stabbed
you 2" asked the officer


at is" said the poor fellow, fall
ing back, never to speak again.


The innocent young man was tried
for murder, found guilty, and senten-
ced to be hanged /; and hanged he
would have been, if, fortnight be-
fore the day fixed for his execution, 3
prisoner in Sing Sing had not con-
fessed on his death bed that be had
robbed the man Of bis watch, then
had stabbed him, ard run of, after
ward dropping the watch az he ran.