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Year: 1877

worth one cent. He still continued TO


reside in the parish and to do business


in his store in the town. This was ag-
gravating. 1t was too much for the


average White Lacquer to endare. The


damned nigger'' must be taught his
place, and instantly they began the in
struction, by burning down his store.
This did not have the desired effect,


however, for Mr.. Laws, besides being
a prominent citizen, was also a wealthy
gentleman of color, and he proceeded
to build another. This was the final
straw that broke the camel's back.


The White League met in secret con-
clave, and ascertaing this, Mr.. Laws
went home and made his will, put his
affairs in order, and wrote to ex-Gov.
Packard that his Naws' hour had
come. He felt intuitively this to be
the case, for the murderous gang had
notified him, by placing the customary
coffin before his door, accompanied
with bunch of cartridges, which
was as much of warning to him as
the traditional bunch of arrows
wrapped in the rattlesnake skin of the
untutored Indian, was to the early set
tiers who came to these shores two cen
turies ago.


James Laws, colored, did not have
long to wait, but died, shot down in
his tracks as he rose from his seat upon
the veranda, while he was in CONVERSE
tion with his mother, to speak to his
murderers-shot down by party of
fiends in human guise. Murdered ON
his own threshold and under his own
roof, and his only crime-he ,cas con-
serratiue Republican.


This is not the first crime of Il like
character that has occurred in this
felicitous parish of East Feliciana, and
political differences, not color, seem to
have instigated the murder of sheriff
Webber as well as the murder of Laws,
as much as anything else. In fine then,
it would seem that there is but zone in
flexible, unbending, iron law in the
South. Either you must be South
erner in everything, even to the break
ing of the law by committing murder,
if necessary. You must have but one
opinion; you must not waver in your
allegiance to them or theirs; you must
sink your manhood in obeying theirs;
you must crawl and grovel at their
lordly feet and submit to their feudal
ways and habits.


We have not written this in a purely
partisan spirit. No man can accuse us,
rightfully, of partisanship of very
marked character, and we would that
the affair which led to the production
of this article had never occurred. But
these things happen too often for us to
affect ignorance of them. These deeds
occur nowhere else throughout the
length and breadth of this free country,
save in the Southern States. Mexico
has no such annals to look back to, and
be ashamed of. The Indians are far
less cruel and vindictive; and it amounts
to this. that if the Southern people and
unable to restrain their White League
murderers, then let the United States
government step in and crush them out
by military rule.
Year: 1877

USEFUL INFORMATIoN.-Wa Watch the
children's feet. The following advice
from the New York EpeniRg Post is
very important. Let every mother
remember it: Life long discomfort
and sudden death come 10 children
through the inattentiOn or careless
ness of parents. A child should never
be allowed to go to sleep with cold
feet (; the last thing to be attended to
Is that the feet are dry and warm.
Neglect of this has often led to a
severe attack of Group, diphtheria or
fatal sore throat. Always, in COM
ing from school, or entering the house
from a visit or errand in rainy, muddy
or thawy weather, the child should,
remove its shoes, and the mother
should herself ascertain whether the
stockings are the least damp. Iftbey
are, they should be taken off, the feet
held before the fire and rubbed with
the hands till perfectly. dry, and an
other pair of stockings and another
pair of shoes put on. Thereserve shoes
and stockings should be put where
they are good and dry, so as to be
ready for use on a minutes notice"
Year: 1877

see in the columns of your val
liable paper that "ViOlet" requests a
recipe for making dry hop yeast. /
will give her mine, which have used
long time and consider splendid {:
Boil one pint of hops, inclosed in a
sack, and six medium sized potatoes,
pared, In two quarts of water; when
the potatoes are thoroughly cooked,
take them out of the water and pass
them through colender, with a tea
eupful of flour; then pour the water
in which the potatoes and hopes were
boiled on the flour and potatoes, and
when cold add teacupful of yeast.
Let it rise, then thicken with corn
meal aud dry in the eshade. Exchange.
Year: 1877

transom over it, and the rising sun
cast his light through the transom on
to the neck and back of the head OF
this mule. In the afternoon he threw
his light again upon the head and
neck of this mule through the tram
som of side door. The effect of the
light upon The animal was the cure of
his rheumatism and the removal OF
his deafness; and he is now as healthy
and hearty mule as can be seen any
where. The removal of the deafness
was produced by an electromagnetic
current evolved by the two lights up
on his auditory nerves and exciting
them to healthy action.
Year: 1877

The managers of The Post take pleasure in an
nOuncIng the course OF this paper upon entering its
thirteenth year of existence.


The Post Is known TO the people of the west as
fearless defender Of the right. 1t has, during the
Presidential excitement and in the stirring
of this fall in Chicago and over the whole country
tsken position which has gain d for il thousands
of friends In the loyal people of the Northwest.


1t has advocated the success of the Republican
party but at the same time il has in manner ex-
tenuated the faults or errors of those within that
party guilty of oversight tranSgressiOn. It has
never turned aside from what IL believed to be the
path OF duty. nor mised its readers the public.
As in the past, so in the future The Post will be
found in politics TO favor the carrying out to the
letter the Constitutional Amendments that were
the OutgrOwth of the war; and of such legislation
as viii restore this country TO prosperity and tnan
cial SoundneSS without too suddenly or arbitrarily
shocking Its industrial pursuits.


1t believes the Republican party is capable OF do
ing that, and Will continue TO support ii while it
honestly endeavOrs 10 fulfill its pledges.


In matters affecting the local welfare, The Post
mas oeen In advance of all Chicago contemporaries
in de. ending the RIGHTS of the PEOPLE, and
speaking out against official wrOng-dOng.


Its course in the past is full guarantee to the pub
lie that 1t Will maintain the same in the fu-
ture.


In all its departments The Post will be emphat-
lcaily NEWSPAPER: and while being daily
heX of events, IL will nevertheless maintain char
acter for decency and good taste that Will make it
Its columns Will be puTged of every indecency and
no money will Ouy any Of its space for the
praise OF any tllegitimate or immoral calling.


IN order TO meet the necessities of the times. the
prices OF The Post have been fixed at the following
rates. which makes il by far the cheapest newspa-
per in the Northwest:


DAILY EDITION, by mall postage paid
Year: 1877

CURE FOR Having
seen accounts of so many deaths ty
diphtheria of late, submit the follow
ing infallible cure: Sweet oil, harts-
horn, equal parts. Apply to the throat
externally ; bandsge with flannel TO
exclude the air; in two minutes it will
blister; take off the flannel; clip the
lower edge of the blisters to let out the
water, keep off the flannel; keep the
throat CREASED with sweet oil; at the
same time keep the bowels regular
Exchange.
Year: 1877

AS a reason why American farmers
ought to be contented, the AgricuLtur-
ist gives this account of the farmer in
England:


He does not own his land, except
in very rare instances. and is obliged
not only to pay yearly rental of $40
to S25 per acre. but to keep the hardly
worked land in good condition, is for
ced to employ working capital of at
least $50 an acre. to be expended in
artificial fertilizers
Year: 1877

If the United States takes from US
the largest number ofemigrsnts, they
also give back to US the most consid-
cradle immigration. In the last three
years nearly quarter of a million OF
persons have come back to this coun-
try from the States.


The commercial crisis and depress-
ion of business in the United States
may have had much to do with this
observed result, which it would be
rash TO consider as other than tenn
Year: 1877

IMPORTANT ADVICE.-Never leave
clothes near the fireplace to dry; MOI
smoke or read in bed by candle oI
lamp light; nor put kindling wood to
dry on the top of the stove ;. nor take
a light into a closet; nor pour out
liquor near an open light; nor keep
oil or burning fluid of any kind in
rooms where there is a fire.
Year: 1877

FRENCH RoLLs.-Into one pound OF
-four rub two ounces of butter and the
whites of three eggs, well beaten add
tablespoonful of good yeast, a little
salt, and milk enough to make stiff
dough cover and set it in a warm
place till light, which will be an hour
or more, according to the strength of
the yeast. Cut into rolls, dip the
edges into melted butter to keep them
from sticking together, and bake in a
quick oven.
Year: 1877

CHILBLAIN LOTION.-Dissolve one
ounce of muriate of ammonia in half
a pint of cider vinegar. and apply fire.
quently. One-half pint of alcohol may
be added to this lotion with good eff
faor
Year: 1877

A NICE DISH.-Take six good-sized
potatoes; peel and CRATE; beat in two
eggs; add salt; have ready a frying
pan in which is some hot lard put in
tablespoonful. spread out thin; let it
brown nicely, but not too fast turn
it, and eat hot.
Year: 1877

IRONING MADE EAsY.-Put a tea
spoonful of kerosene into your cold
starch, say to pint, and your iron
will not stick. The smell will soon
pass off; and rub your iron on soap or
wax if ii is rough.
Year: 1877

Two hearts that beat as one is n
mighty poCr hand TO draw to. II
there were three hearts, now, there
might be a chance of filling. and a
good opportunity to bluff if you didn't
fill.
Year: 1877

AS "A LOCAL PAPER.
publishers ADVERTISER tabor auously and with unre
ming industry, make prejudice paliy
against particular localities
thing prosperity
THE ADVERTISER only willing Believing in


TOWN AND COUNTRY,
and that prosperity depends upon other
consistently work for the prosperity


labor honest paper and
possible invite attention
paper quantity quality
any weekly daily We
ADVERTISER paper people
for, full the invested
Year: 1877

While The Chicago Tribune is a Republican
newspaper. and contributed aS much as any other
in the United states 10 the success of its party il is
always Independent and feerlesS in the expression
OF its views and aims be right rather than part
san; and while holding party high it holds the
country higher
Year: 1877

But there are grave apprehensiOns that a ruffiaD-
ly, raVenous crowd of ofice-Seekers may resort TO
lawless and violent means TO Induce the defeated
candidate into the Office Of Chief Magistrate. All
peace-lovtng and lawabiding men, irrespective of
party must stand together in this crisis and crush
out the lncendiary demagogues who are threaten
ing TO light the torch of internecine war, which
wonld bring ruin and destruction upon the country.


Ine coming year promises 10 be the most event
ful and exciting of any since the War. The Trio-
une Will do everything in its power have The new
President peacefully and lawfully inaugurated. and
70 restore harmony and confidence in the future.
Let US never dispair of the Republic.
Year: 1877

The wisest of the Democratic leaders have


never believed in the possibility of carrying
the state of Maine in this campaign, and to
their way of thinking the most sanguine even


of their followers have come. 1t has become
evident that Republicans will not let differ
ences in their own ranks inure to the benefit
of the common enemy. Whatever quarrel.
ing the Republican party of Maine has to do
1t proposes to do in caucus and convention


and not at the polls. There it will present a


united front. Still the Democratic leaders in


their public utterances pretend to have great
confidence in success, hoping thus to stimu-


late their followers to great exertions. Their


boasts however are so extravagant that they


awaken ridicule instead of enthusiasm, and


that very frank journal, the Bangor CONNER.
ciat, (which is, by the way, anything but
pleased with the Democratic platform aud
candldate) openly makes fun of their predic-
tions.


But the Democrats, though they have
given up all hopes of carrying the state, do


have hopes of capturing some counties aud
some legislative districts this fall. To this
end their ablest efforts are directed. Taking
advantage of the indifference so prevalent in
the Republican ranks ia an off year they in
tend to poll their full vote and so win ma
jorlty in sections really hostile to them.
While there is not county in the state that
the Republicans cannot carry in sharp con-
test, there are few counties which can


easily be lost through neglect or indifference.
Republicans in all sections of the state will
take the wiser and safer course by turning


out in full strength on election day, distrust


ing all appearance of lethargy on the part Of


their opponents. The "possum game" is an


old and favorite one with the Democracy,


and that party is most dangerous when it is
playing dead.
Year: 1877

IT is gravely reported that Gen. Mcclellan
attended pigeon match at Newport the
other day. We are left 10 infer that he
began by digging trench and fortifyine
himself at every step as he advanced by
gradual approaches to the field of battle.
Year: 1877

IT is bad enough that the Georgia Con-
vention should adopt the policy of repudia-
tion. But it is still worse that some of the
leading Democratic papers in the North
should sustain this shameful action. In the
one case there is, not the extenuation, but
the explanation of a supposed but mistaken
self-interest. In the other case there seems
to be little motive but pure cussedness.
Year: 1877

the same as the red man is governed. No
inferior man, no man without civilization,
has a chance in this race, and I want to
to save this people from their worst fortunes
In the contest. As his friends tried to con-
troll him by force and by fraud, we will con-
troll him by fraud and by force to prevent him
from bringing ruin to us.
Year: 1877

The following are the results of Policies now
in force at this Agency and such are the actual and
uniform results of insurance with this Company
1t will be seen that all these Policies have than
doubled in amount


Dividends declared yearly in Cash and may be
used in payment OF premiums If wanted.
Year: 1877

A great improvement, il is now
asserted, can be made in the manu-
facture Of corn meal or flour First
grind the corn a. for ordinary meal
sift out the bran, and then subject il
to nearly the same process employed
in making patent -four. II is reported
TO be nearly equal to corn-s starch, and
Is valuable for many culinary purposes
We hope our niliers will make some
experiments. Corn bread is better
than -four, if it can only be manurac
tured right.
Year: 1877

do not believe that sweet butter
can be made from milk taken from
COWS in the stables. There is no lia-
MD with which | am acquainted that
Will absorb smells and taints equal To
milk; and where the cows are MIXED
IN the stables any one who has the
faculty of taste or smell will detect u
disagreeable smell of the stable in the
milk eaven if it is day old. Ofcourse
the butter j. favored with ii. | clean
my COWS in the stable, and then take
them to milking room adjoining, To
milk. Here can feed each cow a.
may be necessary, and there is moth
ing 10 disturb her or take her atten
tion.
Year: 1877

WHAT Sort OF SPRING SHALL WE
HAVE ?-It will not be adjustable to
hazard much on on early spiaing in
the year Of grlco 1877. Why? Be-
cause the Accumulate ions of Zee and
snow in tho Northwest and North
are unprecedented, aud atmospheric
currents from these quarters will
necessarily bo cold until these accu-
mulations disappear, which cannot
be expected till late in the season.
1t is true that with prevalence Of
southerly or easterly winds we may
have generally warm weather early,
but always subject to blighting nips
and frosts whenever the winds reach
us from the snow banks, md with
these tho ambitious gardener win
meet with a setback, Wo make no
prophecy, hut this seems to BE the
philosophy of tho situation, and wo
shall act upon it, We look for a
good doal of cold weather yet, and
hopo that tho severity of the
winter thus far will improve the
cropping season when it
does come.-Macon $685. zsle-
graph. .''f =
Year: 1877




The Hon. William Aldrich then stepped for
ward and said:


VIII not occupy your time but a moment
am very Door speaker. am tolerablc fair
worker. am ready to serve you the very best
1 can in any capacity. [Applause.] 1 have
worked with your respected Chairman here,
and the other members Of the Committee
every hour in the day we could possibly spare
IRON our business, and we propose to do SO Just
SO long as you want US to. l think the whole
matter has been explained at such length
that you well understand al
that can be understood at this time.
Perhaps in a week or more we may be able to
arrive at something more definite and salts
factory. There has been nothing but discour-
asement from the beginning. I thought when
l first looked the thing through that there was
nothing but the bare shelves; but there is
something more than that, and l believe it Is
the determination Of this Committee, as far as
1t Is in their power, to get every cent that it ia
Year: 1877

About year ago, says a contributor
to Appleton's Journal, a canary which
T dearly priced, and which, in reality,
was one of the most intelligent birds
that I have ever owned, flew upon case
where some light and q few heavy vol
umes had been piled rather carelessly.
While hopping about he accidentally
overturned one of the smaller volumes,
his feet became entangled in some way
or other, and the whole pile fell over
upon him. heard the chirp Of alarm,
the crash, and hurried to the rescue,
but only to find that both of Goldy's
legs were broken. Tenderly I lifted him,
examined the injury, and splintered the
fracture as best I could. For three days
T nursed the little unfortunate, but with
out much satisfaction as to the results. I
began to think that the bird had received
some internal injury, but what it was no
one could say. On the fifth day the bird,
lying in cotton, was placed on my table
his old favorite spot, and he knew it
well. Presently there was slight rust
ling of his wings, he seemed eager to get
again upon his feet, but, too wise not to
see the foolishness of such mn attempt,
he contented himself by warbling the
saddest and the most touching, if not the
loudest, song that he ever sung. Natur-
alists will tell you that the story Of the
swans dying song is only an invention
of the poets. No naturalist shall dispute
with me that the last song of that dying
canary was not his sweetest.
Year: 1877

About three weeks ago Chief Justice
Horton of Kansas came to Leavenworth
from Topeka, and desirous of reaching
Atchison that night, concluded to try
and make the train across the river on
the K. c., st. Joe and G. B. road. The
river was at its highest, and the ferry
boat had ceased running for the night.
Thinking that the trip could easily be
made in skiff, he visited the levee and
engaged son of one of the boatmen to
take him cross, but the father dared not
trust his son on the river at that time
81 night, it then being about eleven
o'clock, and he refused to let him have
the skiff. A bystander who happened
to overhear the conversation told the
Judge that he would take him across.
He was engaged, and soon appeared
with skiff, and they embarked on their
perilous journey. When about mid
way the passenger discovered that the
boat was rapidly filling with water, and
the boatman asked The Judge if he
could swim. The Judge is not skilled in
the art, and told the seaman SO. He
then told the Judge that he would swim,
and taking off his clothes he jumped in.
He was able to reach shallow water
in safety on Missouri soil, though not
without bitterly repenting his folly in
attempting to cross the river after dark.
The man who furnished the judge with
Transportation did not own the skiff, but
went up this side of the coat shaft and
borrowed one that had been lying in the
sun all summer, and WIS warped to such
an extent that water went through it like
a sieve. When the boat reached the
other shore it was nearly even full of
water
Year: 1877

Anyone who can laugh OF will is GER
tain Of a favorable reception in society
particularly when the weather is muggy.
Laughter is social virtue, a prudent
accomplishment, IN open letter of intro
duction. It is not necessary to bc funny
in order to be able to laugh. Some men
laugh like potatoes, without knowing it.
Their faces are sculptured cachinnations.
The permanent grin, however, pals upon
the eye, and Mt last begins to wear out
ones POPULARITY, and to look as solemn
and hideous as the dismal sphinx.
Laughing is good by virtue of its sud
dcnness. It is in its unexpected appeals
to the nerves that its power chiefly lies.
It does q thoughtful person good to be
taken by surprise, and to be tickled into
o hearty laugh against his will. 1t
makes him feel as he would after having
been electrified. 1t awakens him, forces
blood to circulate, makes him open his
eyes, look about him and talk. The
greatest mystery of laughing is its COM
municativeness. Set one or two going,
and the whole circle, although they know
not why, fall into the vein. You laugh
at laughter, and laugh the more because
you know the less of what You are laugh
ing at. Much potency is there in the
association of ideas, and laughing is
divisible into great many modes.
Year: 1877

All philosophy lies in two words
"sustain and "abstain."


He who finds pleasure in vice, and
pain in virtue, is novice in both.


Men give away nothing so iberally as
their advice.


One ungrateful man does an injury to
all who are wretched.


Rochefoucauld says we have more in
dolence in the mind than in the body.


Seneca says that malignity generally
drinks the greater part of its own poison.


A good word is an easy obligation, but
not to speak i'll requires only our silence,
which costs nothing.


Judge thyself with judgment of sim
cerity and thou wilt Judge others with a
Judgment of charity.


Friendship is like those ancient affairs
where the unhappy, and even the guilty,
found o sure asylum.


There are falsehoods that represent
truth so well that it would be Judging Ill
not to be deceived by them.


Deceit and falsehood, whatever con-
veniences they may for time promise
or produce, are, in the sum of life, OBJ
stacles to happiness.


Men love better books which please
them than those which instruct. Since
their ennui troubles them more than their
ignorance they perfer being amused to
being informed.


If you have talents industry will i'm
prove them; if you have moderate abili-
ties industry will supply the deficiencies.
Nothing is denied to well directed labor;
nothing is ever obtained without it.


An intelligent class can scarce ever be-,
as o class, vicious; never, rs o class, in
dolent. The excited menial activity ope-
rates as q counterpoise to tho stimulus of
sense and appetite.


A dull man is so near dead man that
he is hardly to be ranked in the list of
the living; and as he is not to be buried
whilst he is half alive, so he is as little to
be employed whilst he is half deal.


When we have practiced good actions
awhile they become easy, and when they
become easy we begin to take pleasure
in them, and when trey please us we do
them frequently. Form, then, the habit
of doing good.