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Year: 1877

When life's sun is warm and bright.
And there comes no starless night
When DER an untrodden sea
Thy bark glideth peacefully,


Trust in God
And when adverse tempests swell,
And the muttering thunders tell
That the storm must surely fall,
Then, beneath the gloomy pail,


Trust in God
When life has no bitter part,
And no sorrow rends thy heart,
When no tear.drop dims thine eye,
And no wasting grief comes nigh.


Trust in God
When afiliction, stern, severe,
10 thy tireside draweth near
When the soul is sore oppress d
In this hour of sad unrest,


Trust in God
When thy earthly strength shall fail,
And thou comest to the vale
Through which mortals all must 60
From their pilgrimage below,


Trust in God !


-[Christian Leader
Year: 1877

The Home Journal objects to the
wearing of diamonds when travelling,
because it is vulgar. 1t is position
which we assumed years ago, and we
are glad to say that no one connected
with this paper has ever been guilty Of
such vulgarity. We have occasionally
taken ride with a lawyer, but there
are some depths to which we cannot
sink'-Norcich Bulletin.
Year: 1877

The BEAUTIFUL AND USEFUL
The useful encourages itself for the
multitude produce it, and no one can
dispense with it the beautiful must
be encouraged for few can set it
forth, and many need it.-[Goe,he.
Year: 1877

Pretty story from New England:
f" A Canaan farmer recently saw two
men attempting to drive hog past his
house, but the brute was so obstinate
that they finally told the farmer that if
he would kill it for them they would
give him half of the meat. He accepted
the offer with joyful alacrity, and not
only killed the hog but dressed it into
the bargain, after which the strangers
drove away with their half But when
the farmer went at night to feed his
own hog he found the pen empty, and
it did not take him long to discover
that he had killed his own property,
receiving half of it for his trouble


"A Little Compton man has plucky
cat. While lying on the doorstep, the
other day, a large hen-hawk swooped
down into the yard and seized fat
chicken, which it attempted to carry
off, The cat at once leaped upon the
intruder and clawed him SO Justify that
he relinquished his hold and sailed
away. In a short time, however, he
returned again and made another at
tempt, in which he as signally failed,
the cat attacking him as soon as he
alighted. Three times did the hawk
essay to carry off his prey, and as often
did pussy succeed in protecting his
charge from the intruder, until the bird,
becoming disgusted with the prospect
of obtaining dainty bit of spring
chicken from that hen-yard, scared
away to repeat the attempt upon some
less-guarded grounds Woonsocket (R.
t. Patriot.


The Bismarck Tribune says: At
jamestown, Conductor Law invited Jo-
seph to supper with him. Joseph ac-
cepted, and, after he was through,
strolled away from the eating-house In
to the village, in search of bread and
good things for his family. He has a
good heart, and means that Mrs. Jo-
seph and little Joseph shall have some
thing to eat, as well as himself. While
he was making his purchases the train
pulled out and Joseph was left A
mile or two from the station passen-
ger discovered the important loss, and
went pell-mell through the cars, crying
'Joseph's left The conductor started
the train back and soon met Joseph.
He was running for dear life and was
far more scared than when Miles took
him in. There was a golden opportuni-
ty to escape, but he dreaded it more
than anything in his experience since
his cantI1re -
Year: 1877

CoAL.-The Philadelphia Times says;
There are not less than a hundred mil
lions of capital now employed in tine
production and delivery of coal that is
not needed, and there are probably
not less than twenty thousand people
including families, dependent upon the
labor Of producing coal, who are not ne
cessary to the production of the present
demand.
Year: 1877

A letter asks US, "What do you
mean by saying the old law allowed
the owner of silver to take it to the
mint and have it made into money,
the same as the farmer does his grain
to the mill to be ground" We mean
exactly what we said. Under the old
law a man could take silver to the
mint, and for a given sum paid out of
it. have it coined. The mint was free
for every ybody. Congress provided the
mint, and fixed the standard Of the
coin TO be made at it, and that was all.
The man who had old silver, or new
silver, silver bars, or silver spoons,
could go to the mint, and by paying
the actual expense of coming, have it
made into dollars, or halves. or quar-
ters. He can do the same thing with
gold to-day. That is what the Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania meant
when they said unrestricted coinage.
Kansas City Journal Of Commerce.
Year: 1877

and good works, but by a good office
that has yielded him from one to two
thousand dollars per year; and who
should feel thankful If not him. No
doubt he does not wish to see the time
again that he whitfield his fingers with
the sick le; but let Mr.. Pollock go back
TO the time he cut his fingers, and ex-
anime the records of that day, and
then come here and do the same and
he will find here a thousand farms
encumbered with debts and mortgag-
es, where there was one at that day.
Here Is a statement from one of the
best farmers of Otoe county. He said !:
Give any man, he cared not how in
dustrious he was, farm all under
cultivation, and one thousand dollars
to commence with, and let him raise
grain exclusively and sell it al from
the farm, and in ten years time he
will become a bankrupt. This Is
what machinery has done for US, it
has run the farmers in debt, led them,
into q business that Is continual loss
to them In labor and capital expended.
1t Is certainly amusing, nearly bor-
dering on the ridiculous, to have a
man come out into the country that
stands behind a good fat office, and
tell the farmers how thankful they
caght to be for the wonderful advance
ment that has been made in their IA
Yor.


Now we would say that any ma
chine shop, in any town, selling on
credit, is greater damage and curse
to the community, financially, than
forty dram shops could be, for the
good reason they require pay as you
&C. FAIR VIEW.
Year: 1877

Gov. CARRIER deserves more than the
thanks of the people, for his jealous
guarding of the states money. and of
their interests generally-Kenesaa0
Times.


What more does he deserve? Gov.
CARRIER Is different sort of a man to
the lick-spittle of the Times, and does
MT charge anything extra for dis
charging his official duties according
to his oath. Governor CARRIER simply
deserves appreciation and credit from
the people as a faithful Governor
should, and nothing more. But Prof.
by the way, what for are you trying
TO lick the Governors feet? Want a
cold biscuit
Year: 1877

Ben Hill is modest. He insists
that the South should have a repre-
sentative on the next Democratic
Presidential ticket, and he would be
satisfied with the second place. But
as the South will give it the support
ofone hundred and thirty-eight South
ern votes, if it takes shotgun to do
it, and more than forty-seven North
ern votes are solicited for it, ought
not the South to have the first place
on the ticket2 And how would the
name of Ben Hill look if it glittered
there? Go to.-Cfncinndti CONNER
ciGE.


We guess it will bea Southern man.
The "solid South" have the power to
take it, and they will take 1t.
Year: 1877

We admire an honorable thief, but
the fellow that will steal a keg of
beer is too mean for any use.-FdiT-
bury Gazette.


Yes, an honorable thief would be an
interesting paradox to be gazed upon
with admiration.
Year: 1877

CLASS 6-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.


The report of the committee in this
class Is lost. Parties having taken
premiums in this class will please
bring their premium checks with
them when they come to get their
premium.
Year: 1877

Huntington Hawkeye.l


OF twenty-three young men VINO re-
Gently stepped across the threshold OF
life from an Eastern college and went
forth upon the trackless ocean OF lie
to battle with relentless fate, and re-
uown or glorious death in the arena,
eleven are clerks in an auction store NJ
Sl4 a month, one il runninga a fish boat,
two are learning the house painting
trade, one starved to death before he
had been out of college week, one ~
driving a team on "a street contract,
two are tramps, and the others are
living with widowed mothers who are
their only support. Fact is, brethren,
when old life grapples its hooks int"
mans collar, it shakes all the arena
and ocean and battle business out o'
him so quick that in six weeks u ne
is alive, he knows more in a minute
about the price of pork and flour than


he can tell you about Greek root IN
six months.
Year: 1877

Few people have reason TO regret
that they have talked too little. FOR
bear to sport an opinion on subject OF
which you are ignorant, especially In
tho presence of those to whom II IL Ialn-
liar. If it be not always in your power
to speak to the pnrpose, It certainly Is
to be silent; aud, though thousands
have remembered with pain their
garrulity, few have reason to repent
their silence.
Year: 1877

Every failure is step TO success;
every detection of what is false directs
us toward what is true; every trial OK
hausts some tempting from OF error.
Not only so, hut scarcely any attempt
is entirely failure; scarcely and theory,
the result of steady thought, is altogeth-
er false; no tempting form is without
some latent charm derived from truth
Professor WheCeU.
Year: 1877

An old slave who is a subscriber to the
Gazette, thinks we have not spoken fairly
of his race and takes the Democratic par
ty to task because "the white people rob-
bed his race of their labor" We think 1t
was not the Democratic party, which, in
more recent days. robbed the negroes of
their savings in the Freedman's bank and
set the colored men to murder each other
for the manufacture of southern outrages.
Gazette,
Year: 1877

/ Seventy-five years ago, the New


England people were more thorough
~ and purely religious than were al
/ equal number OF people in any other
quarter Of the world. Their manner.


were not what may be called refined ;
tney were not so eOurtly as those o
Virginia, for the New Englanders had


learned to distrust courts and all that


pertsined TO them ; but their manner:


Were exceedingly kind, gentle aud de.


ierential, and carefully toned with
aelleate consideration for tie rights


and feelings OF Others. Such was the


security for personal rights in those
] days, that houses or stOrerOOms were
seldom locked people on Sundays
often left their windows open, in


summer, while absent st church a


young lady might go anywhere by


herself alone and the traveller was


frequently, If not generally, saluted


by bow or courtesy from children.


These manners and customs were


que 10 the religious training of the
people. Almost everybody went to
ehurcn, and the Bible was q reading


book in the schools, and not there
alone the youth was taught to read


it every day, and it was hardly re-
spectacle not to have read it through
BY the age OF manhood. The effect Of
such training upon manners could not
have failed to be of the most benig-
nant kind. Nowhere in all the teach
lngs OF men, from the days OF Lord
Chesterfield, when even the English
had no formed manners, down to the
Aar


treatise on good manners equal to
that which may be found in the let
ters of st. Paul to his young friend
Timothy. In these letters all the ex-
perienee Of the then past, OF Greek,
Hebrew, and Roman, were combined
with the elevating and scftening in
1uences of Christian faith.


But things have greatly changed in
New England from what they wsre
years ago. Probably not
over one in five OF the people there
now habitually attend church and if
The Bible is still read in the schools
there, il is rather from the lingering
traces OF an early habit than from any
decided attachment to the book as
school reader. In some schools per-
haps the fustian, spread-eagIe spec ch-
es OF politicians, or the lueubrati Ons
Of low humorists, would be consider
ed preferable to it, especially for
acquiring elOeutiOn, to which great
i'm pOrtance is attached.


Yet regard the district schools as
the only true source OF good manners
in America. Without the school |
house, even religion would become |
corrupt among US. 1t is only in the |
early schOOl.days of life that good |
manners can be taught es an abiding I
influence. As the youth grows up to
religion must step in to inn !
prove and preserve these manners;
but If manners are neglected until |
they are fashioned by the preacher |
alone, they can never be as good as if
taught early, in the first days OF
school going.


The church and the school house
must go together and the school,
house must be put first in this matter.
The work to be done is to teach chill
lren practical religion, practical love
'or each other, by their learning, as
The first of lessons, especially in q
Republic, to respect the rights of 9TH
ars before insisting on their own.
Year: 1877

There are no fishes in the Grea


Salt Lake. The only living thing be


meath its waters is q worm about 6


quarter Of an inch long. This worm
Shows up beautifully under the lens O


microscope. When 8 storm arises


the worms are driven ashore by the


thousands and deVoured by the blaeh


gqlls. We found pure stream pour


ing into the lake. 1t was filled with
6hubs and sinners. The fish became


frightened, and were driven down the


brook into the briny lake. The IN
slant they touched its waters they
came to the surface, belly upward,
aud died without gasp. The water
is remarkably buOyant. Eggs and
potatoes float on it like cOrks. Mr.,
Hood and myself stripped and went
in swimming. dived into the lake
from q long pier, which had been
built for the use of a small steamboat
that formerly piled upon the waters
The sensation was novel. The water
was so salty that my eyes and ears
began to smart, but so buOyant that
found no difficulty IN floating, even
when the air was exhausted in lungs.
As | struck out for the beach / felt as
light as Q feather. IN spite Of all 1
could do my head would fly out OF the
water. The lightness of the water
and surging of the waves forced my
feet from under me. A. person who
could not swim might be eesily
drowned in five feet OF water. His
head would go down like q lump OF
lead, while his feet would fly up like
a pair OF ducks. The water is s. clear
as Seneca Lske-sO clear thsE the
bottom could be seen at a depth of
twenty feet. When we reached he
shore and crawled out upon the sand


in the light of the sun, our bodies were
thickly covered with salt. we were
compelled to 90 to the small stream
from which we had driven the ehubs
and sinners, ard wash of In fresh wa
ter before we could put on our clothes.
Our hair was filled with grains OF salt
that could not be washed out. The
MOrmOns occasionally visit the lake
in drOves for the purpose Of bathing.
Many say their health is improved by
leaving the salt upon their bodies and
dressing without Wiping themselves.
Year: 1877

CHANGE IN POSTAGE SrAMPs.-BY
about the middle of next May, tL,-
public will have seen the last of the
present 3 cent stamp and begin to get
accustomed to something red or pos
sibIv new tint. The best and fastest
color known, the green three, has
proved a placer for stamp-washers
who take off the oily cancellation
without acid or alkali and set the
stamp afioat again So far tie de-
partment has found no way on: OF The
difficulty, and The long series of ex.
periments Just completed has resulted
in nothing more than the assurance
that green is the poorest oi stamp
colOrs. At the time it was adopted
no other nation used it for its unit of
letter postage, and with its disuse the
common stamps the world over will
run to red and browns. With the
change of color, May 1st there will be
a change in design. The medallion
head of Washington will be relieved
by an open space of white, and the
scroll work will have a different pat
tern. Altogether the new stamp Will
bear some resemblance TO a stamp OF
sixteen years ago, which most people
have forgotten. The white back.
ground is adopted in the hope that
any attempt TO wash the stamp Will
leave this part irrelrieyably soiIed.
Year: 1877




An experiment is to be tried in BirmiDs-
ham, England, which will at once engage
the attention Of all persons interested in tenn
perance. The Council of that city, by a
vote of 40 to TO- have decided that it is desir.
able for the municipality to obtain the requi-
site power to acquire, on payment OF
fair compensation to be fixed by Parliament,
all existing interests in the retail sale of in
tOxicatipg drinks in the city, and thereafter,
if it sees fit, TO carry on the trade for the
convenience and on behalf of the inhabitants,
but so that no individual shall hsye any
pecuniary interest in, or derive any benefit
from tie sale" The experiment is substanti-
ally that which has been put in operation in
Guthenburg, Sweden, where the town con-
trolls tie sale of liquor. dictates where 1t shall
be sold, who shall sell it, and at what prices,
and thus beoome responsible for the condition
of the people so far AZ sobriety is concerned.


In Go'henburg it is claimed by the adVo-
Gates Of the system that it has worked we'll.
and it is stated that intemperance has been
materially reduced. This statement, how
ever, is decidedly converted by Official reports.
In letters of our Consul at Stockholm to the
State department numerous citations are made
fro,.l medical authorities in this very distr:c,
of Gothenburg, testifying TO the effects OF in
temperance as the cause Of pauperism. The
universal testimonial Is to the effect that in
temperance has steadily Increased, and that
the laboring classes devote a large part of
their wages to the purchase of intoxicating
drinks.


Since the passage OF the motion in Birming-
h.m numerous criticisms of the desirabiiity
and feasibility of the plan have been made,
the sblest, perhaps, by Mr.. Lowe, member of
parliament, in an article contributed TO the
January number of the fSrtHightly Rerie'o. lie
bases his objections TO the experiment, first.
upon the immense expense at which the e1'
pertinent is to be tried, amounting in the
case of Birmingham to nearly million
pounds sterling, necessary to compensate the
dealers whose licenses are TO be extenguished-
Second, upon the great danger of corruption
in the vast amount Of patronage which the
operation of the scheme would throw into
the hands of municipalities. upon which he
says very pertinentIy: The Birmingham
town Council are cntting out for themselves
an enormous amount OF patronage. As the
one publican of the town, they will have
some thousands of lucrative places to give
away. and to give away to persons who will
necessarily become their own constituents and
the electors Of the boroughs Are they quite
sure of their own virtue? And if long and
unvaried experience has made them secure
on that point, can they answer with equal
confidence for those who may come after
,h-m2 Have they no fear that their we'll
meant endeavOrs to prevent Birmingham
from becoming city Of drunkenness may re-
| suit in turning it into hOt-bed Of corruI-
~
Year: 1877




To the Senate of the United States:


follow the example heretofore occasion
ally presented of communicating in this
mole my approval of the act to provide for
and to regulate the counting of votes for
President and Vice-President, and the de-
cision of questions arising thereof for the
term commencing March 4th. A. d., 1877.
because of my appreciation of the Imminent
peril to the institutions of the country from
which, in my Judgment, the act anorhs
wise and constitutional means of escape, for
the first time in the history of our country,
under the Constitution as it is now; the
dispute exists with regard to the result
of the election of the Chief Magistrate OF
the nation: it is understood that upon the
dispositlon of disputes touching the electo-
raj votes cast at the late election, by one or
more OF the States, depends the question
whether one or the other of the candidates
for the Presidency is the lawful Chief Mag
istrate. The Importance of having clearly
ascertained by a procedure, regulated by
Year: 1877

Y'HE design of this work, which has been
Il very carefully prepared by Judge l.. O.
Brldeweii, of Coplah county, and which will
supersede the FORM Book heretofore issued
by the undersigned, is to impart to novces,
gentlemen not learned in the 'aw above their
fellows" the routine of business required of
won when they assume the responsible and
then important Office of Justice of the Peace
U Under the present Constitution of Mississip-
pi, the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in
Civil Suits is raised to one hundred and fifty
dollars, and in all criminal matters their Ju-
risdlctlon is concurrent with that of the Cir
cult Courts In all cases where the punishment
prescribed by the laws does not extend beyond
a fine and Imprisonment in the county Jail.
The office is certainly one of great dignity, and
the main design of this work is to be of some
assistance to the unlearned Justice of the
Peace by placing the law relating to his juris-
diction before him In compact form, with forms
and precedents, covering almost, if not every
case, which can come before him. Notes are
added to many of the forms for the guidance
and information of the Justice, endeavoring
thereby to oexplain the law and use of the FORM
so that none, however ignorant of the law
generally, can go far wrong.


The Law, as found in the Code of 1871, and
in the pamphlet Acts since, far it is dis
tinctly applicable to the Justice of the Peace or
the practice in his Court, will be given full, in
arranged under appropriate heads. The whole
will be carefully and fully indexed. Alto
gether, we hazard nothing in saying that it
will be the most complete Manual for Justices
of the Peace ever published in this, or, per-
haps, any other State, and will he useful to
every attorney, every public officer, every
merchant, and indeed every citizen. AS the
work will not be stereotyped and as the edi-
ton will be limited TO the probable demand
those who would secure copies should file their
their orders without delay. THE MISSISSIPPI
JUSTICE will make volume of about five hun
dred pages, will be printed on best quality of
paper, and substantially bound. Price, by
mail, $500 Address,


POWER & BARKSDALE,


Jackson Miss
Year: 1877

EDITOR HERALD Dear Sir:-I have
seen in the papers many articles concern
ing assWorkhonsa or something else that
might or ought to be done to curtail the
expenses Of persons accused Of Larceny,
&C. Now Twill suggest, or rather recon-
mend to the people of this State and your
Legislature to pass an act to make larceny
consist Of two degress-grand and petit.
For anything stolen to the amount of $40
and under Petit larceny, and by the con-
sent of the person Or persons 80 accused,
may be tried by any E~e Justices in the
County, where such laeceny may be COM
mitted, without jury. By an act of this
kind the State would save heavy expense,
and the person go charged would not have
to be kept from one to six months in Jail al
the expense OF the tax payers before they
can be tried. This wouldcertainly reduce
the expenses from what it now costs, ant
be better for both the State and the &C.
cused. Yours Truly,


P. CRUTcHFIELD.
Year: 1877

Washington, Nov. 24.-The adjourn
ment of the House of Representatives
till Tuesday next, has given the men,
bers an opportunity to go home and
prepare for the winter session. Many
attended the extra session under the
impression that it would be very brief,
and came provided only for few weeks
stay. The outlook now is that the final
adjournment will be at late day next
week, if indeed the present sessionidoes
not absolutely merge into the regular
session, and the short recess from last
night until Tuesday will be availed of
by at least fifty members to proceed
home and make arrangements for their
stay in Washington throughout the
winter.