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Year: 1879

A woman applied to a priest to re-
cover certain article which had been
stolen from her. The priest, suspecting
that the thief was member of his con-
gregation, adopted an original method
TO detect him.


7 After mass, he mentioned the theft,
and his suspicion that the thief was
then present. If SO, he intended to
find him out.


"Down on your knees, all Of you"
he said. The congregation knelt. 81
shall throw this book" he continued,
"and it will hit the thief"


He made the motion, and one man
only ducked his head. "Come here,
sir You are the thief!" and he was.


An English magistrate in India once
detected thief by a method similar in
spirit, though not in form, to the
priests.


He missed a large silver bracelet
which be had left over night on his
table. He suspected one of his SER
wants, but said nothing about the loss,
except to his valet. In his presence he
placed on the table two marked rupees,
powdered with nitrate of silver. The
next morning the money had disap'
peared.


He ordered the drum TO be beaten to
summon all the servants. After they
had been placed in line, he talked to
them about the theft, and how wrong it
was for a servant to rob his master.
Not face gave sign of guilt.


Then he told them what he had done,
and that the thief would have O caustic
mark on his hand. Instantly one man
looked at his hand. He saw the mark,
turned and fed.


His fellow-servants pursued and
caught him. He made confession of
his guilt, and restored both money and
bracelet. Then he was drummed off
the premises. uIg
Year: 1879

The office Of the pillow is not appreciated.
Since the Egyptians used the sharpened
limb OF tree as plow, the trunk above
The limb for beam, and side limb as
handle. TO the present when We have II
steam sang-pow. this implement has bee.
the iorerunner OF civilization In every and
Not to put it To its legitimate use is to
sound the death hnell of Nations pros
peEity. All honor TO the plow. II is pleas.
ant to trace its track and breathe the fra
grance Of the sod upturned.


But Why PLow?-It i OF Gods ord.
ering. ''By the sweat OF thy face shalt thou
eat bread, and he who Will not plow by
reason OF the cold, shall be. in harvest and
nave nothing The plow answers two
fold purpose.to destroy thOrns and thistles,
aud furnish mellow bed tor plants.
Rules ia plowihg should be carefully noted.
The nature aud condition of the soil should
regulate the character of the blowing. Ev-
cry farmer should consider well the kind
OF soil which he cultivates and adapt his





but three inches deep and he plows six
inches and he does not enrich his land
enough more to make up for the poverty
OF three extra inches OF barren soil he in
jures his crop. II his soil is eight inches
deep, aud he plows but four, half his re-
sources are lost. Winter fallow improves
stiff clay by frost. Light and sandy soil, as
a rule should not be broken till spring.
matter what the character OF the soil may
be. To do il defeats he object OF blowing :;
soil is rendered hard, harsh, compact, ip-
stead Of being more fine and mellow. One
important object oi plow ing is GrGtioR.
Land poorly plowed or with il hard crust
excludes the air which is great damage
to the growth of vegetation. SubsoiIing
Is neither desirable nor necessary unless
the pillow strikes into compact clay and
then the subsoil should not be brought to
the surface, but simply broken up with n
subsoil plow following the other.


Why is the plow so disliked especially by
many OF our young men I'm every town
and city there are many young men look
ing after clerkships. They hang around,
and live from hand to mouth hoping for a
vacancy in some country or city store and
when they find one, they offer to work for
such low wages that a shrewd business
man suspects their honesty. Some appear
never to strike out to do anything and if
advised to go to work they reply, I'VE
don't know what to do" We say to those
young men 60 10 blowing! Even if you
can't get more than a half acre. II you
are unable to purchase cultive land. Quit
looking. waiting. loafing and asking for
clerkships, and make for the woods, or new
settlements where land is cheap, or hire
Year: 1879

with good farmer and learn the trade. He
Will give you more than your victuals for
the first days work (if you mean business.)
There are thousands of acres of good tila-
BILE land in the State OF Maine that only
need the sturdy. plowmsn to yield Its
treasures richer than the mines. Young
men go to powing, you will have more en-
couragement, than in measuring calico.
More in cutting your own timber and fire
wood than in weighing sugar; in gather
ing In good harvest In autumn than in
collecting store bills; better health in
breathing the pure air Of heaven, than the
ill-ventillated atmosphere OF grocer shops,
too many Of which are loaded with fumes
Of tobacco putled from mouths which have
not been visited by a tooth brush for
year, perhaps never.


ouus men 20 Ptvvt'y,
Year: 1879

theme was the obstacles to the acceptance
of the Gospel by the jew and the Greek
and he anaiyzed with skill and learning the
mental characteristics when made the wis
dom of God a stumbling-block 70 one and
foolishneSs tn the other. His delivery OF
the discourse WIS peculiarly good his artie-
ulation is perfect, every letter, every infiec-
ton of the voice being as distinct as if the
listener were in private conversation with
him. while the expression was fraught with
that peculiar responsiveness which can only
arise from the clear perception of the ideas
propounded combined with profound
conviction of their truth and momentous
reality.


Lacey has our warmest wishes for his sue
cess in the sacred profession he has adopted.
and we have no doubt of those wishes being
fulfilled, for he possesses all the elements Of
prosperous career in his person, together
with that reliance on higher aid and guild
ance which is never withheld from those
who sincerely seek 1t.
Year: 1879




WE have seldom attended divine service
with the emotion we experienced on hear
ing the sermon with which the Rev. De-
Lacey Wardlaw entered upon his mission as
q minister of the Gospel. We had known
Mr.. Wardlaw as frank and high-spirited
boy, as a diligent and intelligent student,
and it was with no ordinary interest that
we witnessed his first effort as duly COM
nissioned Christian teacher. Still very
young man, and with a physique which
makes him appear still more youthful than
he is, the beardless face, the boy-voice,
scarcely yet deepened into the virile bass,
ones first feeling was that of misgiving lest
one so young might be as yet inadequate to
the awful RESPONSE sibilities Of the Christian
teacher. As soons however, as that soft,
clear voice commenced unfolding the mys-
teries of revelation, all misgi wings vanished.
for he elucidated his text with q maturity o.
Judgment which would have been remark
able in preacher of double his years. His
Year: 1879

A soldier excused himself for the
stealing of a liquor ration, by say
ing: "You see both rations were
in one bottle; mine in the bottom.
and so | had to drink of his to get
at mine."
Year: 1879

A certain lawyer was compelled
to apologize to the court. With
stately dignity he rose in his place
and said: "Your honor is right
and l am wrong, as your honor
generally is" There was dazed
look in the judges eye, and he
hardly knew whether to feel happy
or fine the lawyer for contempt OF
court.
Year: 1879

An intellectual member Of the
Arkansas Legislature has intro
duced a bill abbreviating the sea-
son of Lent from forty to twenty
days. He explains that everything
else has come down fifty per cent.
since the war, and there should be


no discrimination in favor of Lent.
Year: 1879

Al the police court last evening Will
liam Dewitt and James Bridgeman, two
young men, we're arraigned on the
charge of assault and battery on Solo
mon Smith, colored. From the evil
dence given it appears that Dewitt had
given "Sol'' some money to keep for
him, and on Saturday afternoon he
asked Sol If he had any change, when
he informed him he had not, but would
try and raise him the money by Mop
day. The prisoner afterwards handed
Mrs. Brady 81 for Dewitt saying it was
the best he could do and the balance he
would pay the next Saturday. Dewitt
afterwards called on Sol and asked him
if he couldn't do any better, to which
he replied he could not. A scutfle en-
sued in which William Dewitt, Thomas
and James Bridgeman attacked Sol and
the party were arrested by an officer.
The evidence being sufficient to convict,
the prisoners were required to pay SO
and cost each.


The next and last case tried was New
ton Lamplugh accused by Emma Muir
ply Of using indecent language to-
wards her. After hearing the evidence
his honor did not think it sufficient to
hold Lamplugh and the case was there
fore dismissed.
Year: 1879

Prof. QuintoI's last lecture this sea.
son will be given next Thursday even
ing. and those who have heard him
will need no reminder to induce them
to go. But we can say to those who
have not heard the course, that the
lectures are each ineligible and inter
esting to them that can only hear the
end. This course Of lectures has been
successful every way, and we hope and
expect that Prof. Quinton may give us
another course next season his ideas
are plainly pressnted, and are such as
to give his hearers confidence in his
conclusions. His next and last lecture
on the Future G the Earth," will no
doubt be exceedingly interesting.
Year: 1879

Practical experiment in England has
demonstrated that iron railway sleep
ers ere cheaper than wooden ones. 1t
is to be hoped this is true, and that
American railroad companies will
speedily come to the conclusion to use
them. Not only would our forests,
which are now being so rapidly depict
ed to furnish sleepers for railways, be
spared, but an immense impetus would
be given to the iron business, and thus
employment would be found for many
who are now idle.
Year: 1879

aud supervisors viii have no power to en-
force its provisions In other words, they
are prohibited from having armed men at
The polls, no matter what the exigency or
necessity for them may be. Repeal the law
which authorizes the use of troops under
an emergency arising FROM wrong or out
rage upon the elective franchise and with
the provision attending that repeal the law
will be rendered practically ineffective from
the want Of the power Of enforcement


When the country fully understands the
scope and intent of this law it will not only
justify but it will loudly applaud the inter-
position of the veto power to preserve the
law in its integrity, and insure to it the
power to enforce itself, and in this way to
conserve the rights of citizenship and the
purity of the elective franchise. A more
bold and indelcnsible assault upon the
purity of the ballot-box, by removing its
defenses in case of need, has never before
been attempted in Congress, and it only
finds parallel in those Statesawhere rifle
clubs, shotgun organizations, and ballot-box
suffers have perverted the elective fran
chise and rendered it u mere mockery. This
sixth section of the army appropriation bill
has beeu appended in the interest of those
who seek to subvert our elections by frauds
and outragcs. No other interest de-
mnnds it. Those who fully respect the
purity of the ballot-box are in no way
iutcrCered with or wronged by the existence
Of the law which this sixth section proposes
TO repeal. 1t only stands in the way of
those who seek to subvert our elections by
! frauds and wrongs, and render them useful
only to the cause Of injustice and outrage.
All right-minded people seek a pure, just,
and benefcent government through the
elections, for they arc the only agencies for
securing that end, and when the law that
stands between the ballot-box and fraud
and outrage is stricken down, all the guaran-
tees Of good government are destroyed, and
the most sacred rights of the people become
! the mere playthings for designing and bad
men. The wrongs and outrages of South
Carolina and Mississippi will become as


common elsewhere rs in those States when


the fact is advertised that there is no power


to enforce the laws which relate to the
purity of our elections.
Year: 1879

We derive no satisfaction from the posi-
tiOn taken by Hon. WILLIAM u. KELLEY
in the Greenback party, and yet we have
confidence in his integrity as student Of
finance There are thousands in the Repub-
lican party who sympathize with the funda-
mental principles of the Grecnbacb doctrine
but who have never found it necessary to 90
outside of the Republican party for field
in which TO exercise and practice their faith.
The original Greenbacl party of the coun-
try--that party which sustained the earliest
efforts Of the Government to furnish the
people with q currency based upon the ma
tional credit, and that party which has
steadily stood by the national honor and
credit down to the day when greenhacks
were convertible into gold and silver at par
is the Republican party, and it is good
enough Greenback party for any American
citizen, and any other may be looked upon
with suspicion. 1t is n noticeable fact that,
while Mr.. KELLEY has sympathized with
some, if not all, the dogmas of the So
called Greenback party up to
a certain point, he has not cut loose from
the Republican party and floated with his
Greenback colleagues into Democratic
waters.


This fact, as exemplified by Mr.. KELLEY
in his adhesion to the Republican party,
may represent wisdom, patriotism, OF sagac-
ity-we are not disposed to question the
motive that has guided his action-but
have no doubt that profound discretion
marks his determination to remain in the
Republican camp, no matter how strong
his Greenback procliyities may be, for we
have serious doubt if he could be returned
to Congress from his district either as an
Independent or as Democratic Green
backer. None other than an avowed Re-
publican of Stalwart faith can be elected to
Congress from the Old Fourth District of
Pennsylvania. This fact is no doubt as
clearly understood by Mr.. KELLEY as by
any one else, and hence his attachment for
the Republican party rather than to
| trust himself and his fortunes in
the field that is bounded by the tcnets and
Congress to enlist under the Democratic
banner and take its side on measure that
is vital to the preservation of our rights as
citizens and the laws of the country enacted
for that purpose. In this the Greenbackers
have followed their own proclivities and
have advertised TO the world that the Or
gani2ation has been invented as a Demo-
cratic auxiliary. Were it otherwise their
Representatives in Congress would not have
accepted the first and a very unpropitious
opportunity for celebrating the alliance
! While some Democrats have hesitated and
doubted as to the propriety of repeating the
law which is intended to protect the ballot.
box from wrong and outrage, and but fol-
the dictates of King Caucus would not have
yielded their support to the measure, the
Greenbackers, with few honorable excep


tions, rushed wildly into the arms of tht
| Democracy and made themselves superser


yiceable in perpetrating Il wrong upon tn,
elective franchise of the country, whicl


bears no financial features to Justify the net
Year: 1879

SPEAKER RANDALL, true to his allegiance


to the dictates of King Caucus, handed the
control of the morning hour, so far as he
could, over to the Greenbackers in the
House yesterday. By good rightshe should
have recognized MI Frye, the senior men,
Der from Maine, that being the first on the
list in the call Of States for bills and res
olutions. But he elected to carry out the
bargain between the Greenbackers and the
Bourbons to reward the former for their
trucking adhesion to the majority party by
opening the doors to general legislation


SO far as it was IN his power to accomplish
it, that result was served, Exactly what
effect this exhibition Of arbitrary power at
the behest of the disturbing element Of the
House will have upon Mr.. RANDALL's future
careercannotnow be stated. But is certain
that ii win not be forgotten by the busi-
Year: 1879

Every day increases the chances that the
machine invented by the Democrats and
known as the army appropriation bill with
the sixth section attachment will be smashed
in the end In the first place it attempts
too much-more by far than can be iusti-
ded-lor it removes from a law Of import
ance the power of its enforcement If the
sixth section becomes law, and the super.
yi3ors' law remains untouched, the mar5hals
Year: 1879

THAT section of the army appropriation
bill prohibiting promotions and appoint
ments in the army until further legisla-
ton" did not receive that attention in the
lower House which its importance de-
manded. II strikes at, and in very short
time will take the very life of the army.
With the present dominant party in Congress
in power when can we expect this further
legislaton?' In 1881, when they hope to
have eutirc control Of the Government and
fill the then existing vacancies from "the
Officers Of the old army who went South"
This is their plan. Should they fail to come
into power in 1881 they hope to commend
themselves to their Confederate constituents
for having inflicted a severe punishment on
the army for its loyalty The people of the
North and West are beginning TO under
stand this persecution of the army by the
Confederate Brigadiers,
Year: 1879

THE Greenbaclers have met and resolved
that it is no such thing and we suppose
that settles everything except the fact that
they have slyly crept into bed with the
Democrats, hoping that they might not be
discovered. They cannot resolve that fact
away very well In the face of history.
Year: 1879

THE casualties among the commissioned
officers of our regular army for the last ten
years has been 103 annually, At this rate,
under the provisions of the appropriation
bill now pending in the Senate, there will
be something like 500 vacancies existing in
1881. With this fact before them is it to
be wondered that the Democrats in caucus
should have dictated that there shall be no
amendments in the Senate? This one Sec
tion provides not only patronage for their
Chopped for Democratic administration, but
at the same time Furnishes every old veteran
in the army. Will the people stand such
unjust treatment of our army?
Year: 1879

ONE years suspension from rank of an
officer of the regular army has always been
regarded as a very severe sentence by q gem
eral court-martial, and yet we have had the
officers of our entire army under suspension
for year, pending the report of the joint
commission to prepare plan Of reOrganiza-
tion, the report having been made and re-
jected by both Houses of Congress. The
army is to be put under another sentence.
All from the grade of captain are to be
suspended. How long? until further
" Legislation" The army and the people
would not have understood it any better
had it read: Until the army has satisfied
the vengeance Of the Democratic party for
the part it took in the suppression of the
rebellion" And yet we hear it said that
the Democratic party is friendly TO the
army. Well may our gallant little army
ask the country to save it from such friends
Year: 1879

THE Democratic statesmen of the South
are one and all devoted to the principle of
State Rights In the true sense of the term
there is not a national man among them
WADE HAMPTON, who is prominent as a
typical Bourbon leader, in speech at
Charleston recently, declared that while his
heart is stirred by the blood that flows to
it, every pulsation shall be for South Caro-
" lima" And these are the men who are
expected to make laws for the Nation for
two years to come
Year: 1879

THE demand of Mr.. BRAGG for the abo-
litiOn of the Southern Claims Commission
may be in the interest of the public good.
We are not disposed to pass judgment at
present on that point If the Southern
claims have all been properly and honora-
bly, adjusted, then the Commission has moth
ing further to do and should be abolished
as matter of useless expense; but if there
are claims in the South yet to be adjusted
and paid, it will be far safer and better for
the public interest to have this Commission
pass upon them than TO submit them for
adjudication TO Congress that is controlled
exclusively by ex-Confederates and their
political coadjutors who defer TO them in all
matters of Southern legislation. There
may be millions for the South in the aboli-
tion of the Southern Claims Commission,
which examines all these claims critically
before authorizing their payment. 1t is, in
our judgment, more to be trusted than a
Congress whose sympathies are altogether
with the South and its demands.
Year: 1879

EVERY cOlored citizen driven from the
South by Bourbon terrorism leaves that sec
tion just so much poorer by reason of the
consequent abridgment of the value and
strength of the laboring or producing classes
refugees get settled down again to their ac-
customed habits of labor and production,
other sections will begin to derive benefits
from this hegira exactly in proportion to
the losses of the South. 1t is an i'll wind, &c.
Year: 1879

IT is barely possible that in half CEN
tury the Lynchburg Jiyginion, if it keeps
on in its present strain of abuse of THE Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN and its editor, may
lead some one to take the opinion of such u
common scold as worthy of consideration.
AT all events we should advise it to keep
right on, for the more it talks the more its
real merit will be established. THE Ma
TToNAL REPUBLICAN has q mission, and it
disgruntles eX-rebels and traitors exceed
ingly that it is moving fearlessly forward i'll
its performance We have shellcd the
woods of Lynchburg, and, having discovered
the weakness of that point, we will move on.
Year: 1879

On last Tuesday evening, during


the thunder storm, a most heart-rend>


ing occurrence took place on the farm


of Mrs. Nooner, near Pinson, in this


county. A young man by the name


of Newton Vantreese, who was re-
siding on the place, was plowing, but
observing the threatening appearance
of the clouds, concluded to unhitch


his mule from the plow and ride him
to the house. But the storm was fast
approaching, and before he reached
the house it bursted upon him with all
its fury. AS we understand it, he had
to pass through grove before enter
ing the lane leading up to the house.
Just as he was riding through this lit.
tie piece of timber, his mule (still


ingitsgearing) became frightened
at the loud reports of thunder, began
rearing and plunging in the widest,
manner, and soon threw its rider, but
in the fall Mr.. Vantreeses foot be-
came entangled in the gearing. The
mule then began running. dragging
and kicking as it went the helpless
young man. 1t ran through the woods
and out into the mouth of a lane,
along which it continued until near a
bridge on the Pinson road, when it be-
came worse frightened and turning,
ran nearly halfway back, where it
stopped, and then, as if inspired by the
angry elements, began stamping and
kicking and biting the dead and man.
gled body of young Vantreese. BY
this time assistance arrived land the
parties described the mule as being
perfectly wild with frenzy-on the
terrible scene. The body that few
moments before represented health
and activity, was now blackened and
bleeding mass of flesh, so as to be hard.
ly recognized. 1t is not known whether
he was killed outright in the race, or
was stamped to death by the vicious
animal. Certainly it has not been
our painful duty to chronicle sadder
or more terrible death than this
Juckson Tribune d Sun.