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Year: 1878

We are glad to seeithat most of the papers in the State which have said anything about the rule recon mended by the State Central Con- mittee to admit to seats in the Con vention only as many delegates from each county as the counties are en- titled respectively to vote, give the plan their warm endorsement. As soon as we had seen the proceedings of the Committee we pronounced this action wlse and wholesome, and we are consequently glad to see that most of our exchanges agree with us. We hope the Convention when It meets will be bound by this rule and not allow the hall of meeting to be be crowded and rendered scene of confusion and disorder by the pres ence of large number of supernum- eraries in excess of the number of votes to be cast by the counties in the aggregate. The convention will be large enough with just as many delegates as there are votes and any more will be useless and act as a clog to the dispatch of business.
Year: 1878

 takers andseonfpetent to cope with the sly, sleek fellows of the party who study these things and become expert in manipulating conventions many of the best men in the party never attend conventions, and the average convention is generally composed of very few men. At the primary election, however, the most difildent member of the party feels perfectly free to go up and de- posit his ballot expressing his wish. From the decision of a primary cleo tion no man who pretends to belong to the party can find an excuse to bolt, but the experience of the past shows how frequently the conven- ton system in county campaigns give rise to bolts and splits in the party. The endorsement that comse from a primary election comes di- rect from the voters of the party, whereas in convention the success full candidate feels himself more ob- ligated to few delegates than to the people. The impossibility of securing a good attendance at the township and county conventions has been too many times demonstra- ted to need commenting upon.

 What say the masses of the party upon this question?
Year: 1878

It is apparent that there is not going to be that degree of good feel. ing and brotherly love between the Gazette, the Democrats,nd the Globe, of Little Rock, which is altogether lovely among brethren. We'll, we don't know if little competition won't make all of them be more on their p's and as and bring out the bright spots in them-if they have any
Year: 1878

The business of the Supreme Court and
of the courts In many of the circuits has
increased TO such an extent during the past
year that additional legislation is impera-
tive to relieve and prevent the delay OF jus
tice and possible apprehension to suitors
which is thus occasioned. The encum-
bered condition of these dockets is pre-
sented anew in the report of the Attorney
General, and the remedy suggested is
earnestly urged for congressional action.
The creation of additional circuit judges
as proposed would afford complete rem
edy and would involve an expense at the
present rate of salaries Of not more than
S60, 900 year.
Year: 1878

The members of the Yellow Fever Commits


sion were yesterday engaged in tracing up first


cases and their connection with the spread of


the disease. Each last evening. at a formal
meeting, reported progress. and submitted
Year: 1878

On Friday the pleasant and quiet little sura-
mer resort Of Vaudeville, across the lake, in
the parish Of st. Tammany, was thrown into an
unusual state OF excitement In consequence Of
an alteration between two Of Its best known
citizens, and during which Mr.. Frank Goodby
Year: 1878

An unknown colored woman died suddenly yes
terday NJ No SO King street. She had been
nurse IN tho employ OF George Abbott
for two days previous to her death. Mr. Abbott and
his family were absent IRON homo during the day,
ana on their return they found tho old woman dead
Year: 1878

A Boston variety hail turns q recent
tragedy into account by extensively ad-
ver,isirg the special engagement of
Jennie Franklin, the famous daring
shot, and principal in the recent terri
BILE catastrophe and innocent killing of
4 woman on the stage at Pawtuchet. :"
SIZE does not now employ anybody to
bold objects for her to shoot at, The
Boston Herald says: She made some
very successful and accurate shots at
target, but when she came to shoot by
sighting In a mirror (the feat by which
she killed Lotiie Maiiy). her aim was
not so good. and she retired without
splitting the apple, at which she fired
several bullets"
Year: 1878

1t is better, wrote Thackeray, for
you to pass an evening once or twice
a week in a lady's drawing-room
even though the conversation is
slow, and you know the girls song
by heart, than in a club or tavern,
or pit ofia theatre. All amusements
of youth TO which virtuous women
are not admitted, rely on it, are dele
terious in their nature. All men
who avoid female society have dull
perceptions, and are stupid. or have
gross tastes, and revolt against what
is pure. YtsFsr club swaggerers, who
are sucking, the butt Of billiard cues
all night, call female society insipid.
Poetry is uuinspiring to d jockey
beauty has no charms for blind
man; music does not please a poor
beast who does not know one tune
from another; but as pure epicure
is scarcely tired of water sauces and
brown bread and butter, I protest l
can sit for whole night talking
with a well-regulatel, kindly woman
about her girl Fanny or her boy
Frank, and like the evenings enter
taiament. One of the great benefits
a man may derive from a woman's
society, is that he is bound to be re-
spectful to her. The habit is of
great good to your moral men, de-
pend upon it. Our education makes
us the most eminently selfish men
in the world.
Year: 1878

The reputation man gets
from his ancestors wants about
as much altering to fit as their
clothes would.


Falling in love is like falling
down stairs-it's hard work to
find out just how the thing was
done.


Mice can live comfortably
anywhere but in a church; they
fat very slowly in q church.
This proves that they can't live
on religion any more than q
minister can.


When | hear a man Dragging
about what he did last year, and
W hat he is going to do next year,
| can tell pretty near what he's
doing now.


The worst tyrant in the world
is woman who is superior to
9 husband and let's everybody
now il.
Love is like the measles-you
can't have it but once, and the
later IN life we have it the tough
er it goes with us.


A clerk Of the Supreme Court
and an Alderman in Cincinnati
have been fined for whipping
their servant girls,
Year: 1878

A young Springfield farmer told one
of his business acquaintance that he
had been in the habit for ten years of
smoking fifty cents worth of cigars a
day, that he bad mortgage of 50 800
on his farm. and the thought suddenly
came to him that if, instead of spending
his money for cigars, be should every
day transfer fifty cents from one pocket
to another, and save it, he would have
enough collected in this way at the end
of the year to pay the interest on that
mortgage. He decided to DO so at once.
and in proof brought out double hand
full of half dollars saved under this res
olution.
Year: 1878

A Georgia lawyer described, in let,
ter to a friend in Evansville, Ind, the
outward charms that the woman whom
he would marry must possess. Soon
afterward, the friend saw woman in
the street who was surprisingly like
what the lawyer had pictured. He
made her acquaintance, and brought
about marriage between her and the
Georgian. II is said that the husband
also had ar Intellectual rs we'll as a
physical ideal in his mind and people
are waiting to see how the wife answers
the requirements of the former.
Year: 1878

| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.


| The Pastor urged the Necessity ol
Perseverance in Religion. The follow


ng is an extract from the sermon:


No one is to start with the idea oi


giving it up. You know what Cortes


did when be set invaders foot upon the
western world-destroy the vessels


that brought him over! before him 6


perilous country of cities and wealth


unknown and unconquered; bvhind


him wide and stormy ocean beating


hoarsely upon the strand The con-
quest of Mexico was not to be an ex-


pertinent. but an acLievment by means
Of prolonged, persevering effort. The
parallel is peculiarly apt. 1t is all At
lantic, hungry bowling. raging. engulf


ing Atlantic behind a man born into
this westward moving course of thing.
The cradle ship is burned Or broken on
the beach. There is no craft afoat to
carry him back toinfancy, to childhood,
to youth. to any Spain on the eastern
shore, or to any island in mid ocean.
The ship that landed him upon the
wilderness shore of time never makes a
return trip. 1t is only waste OF waters
behind: sometimes CLASSY calm, some>
times dark when overcast with clouds,
sometimes ioam>crested waves, some
times billows running with the violence
of the te1apest. Before him lies un-
traversed Mexico with tropical wilder-
ness, rivers, plains. plateaux, noun
tains, and withal, cities and gold


What will he do? loiter along the
strand. kind of child always till some
wave of the restless flood washes him
away? or will he move inland timidly,
uncertainty, ready to retire before diffi>
cult obstacles or when hard pressed?
or will he set forth with fixed purpose
TO make conquest of this great Mexico
Of life-to cut a way through its dense
forests and matted undergrowths; to
cross Its rivers, whether narrow and
peaceful or wide and turbulent; to
climb its mountains or cut through
them; to capture its cities, to subdue
all enemies or drive them before him;
to get the gold anu all the measure
houses of the land; and in the end to
stand proudly on the Pacific slope of
l,fe, veritable king and priest unto
his God forevermore? o ye people
with an Atlantic at your back, a Mexi-
CO before you and beyond your Mexico
a Pacific sea without western shore,
how grand is your fortune, what sub
Unity of possibility invites you! the
land of life is before yoa, land lying
in the equatorial zone Of promise and
opportunity, of which every man wo-
man AID child can make conquest.
But in order to the conquest, behind
you ships must be scuttled and sunk.
bridges burned, all ways of retreat eff
fectually blocked up, with the unai.era-
bic determination to push onward. ever
onward. conqueiing and to conquer,
until by resolute perseverance you have
made conquest more glorious than the
cepquerer of Mexico, having won less
tardy ard far more excellent honor than
he won from the Crown of Spain.
Year: 1878

Cardinal Cullen quite takes
down the Bishop Of Limerick,
who sent an address to the new
Pope. The Cardinal says that
the Pope is we'll posted about
Ireland, and that the Bishop need
not have tried to post the Pope
abo1t that country,
Year: 1878

The horrors Of the Chinese fam
inc continue. The Rev. L. Rich
ard writes from Tai Yuen Flu,
the provincial capital of Shansi,
that the distress exceeds any
thing witnessed last year in
Shantung. In one village nearly
half the people were dead. In
one family only two remain out
of sixteen; the rest are dead, or
have been sold, or have fed. In
another family there remain
three out of eight, while in a
third ont of four none remain.
The dead were in their houses
unburied. In one house there
were three brothers, GOLFERS
One of the three had died twen-
ty days before, and, for want OF
anything better, was put IN two
deep, narrow earthen jars lying
on the ground facing each other
Three days ago the elder brother
died, but as there was nothing
left that would cover him, he
was placed on the bare grounc
beside the two jars. The thirc
brother was on a bed, too weak
TO go to work.


The Ninety-slx Is. C.) Guar
dian chronicles the birth, of col
ored parents, Of a very singular
child. From the waist to the
crown Of the child's head it.
skin is pure white, from the hip
to the knees the skin is Of Goa
black. and from there down tn,
skin is white. The head is GOV
cred with hair as white as driver
snow, and is unusually long fe
a child Of that age. The chill,
is large and healthy.
Year: 1878

An engineer who Travelled with the
American Exploration party in Pales>
tine was showing us the other day some
large and handsome photographs taken
upon the spot. Happening to speak of
the verdure he remarked. 1.-The climate
and productions are tropical" How
could that be? Palestine does not lie
within the tropics. 1t has about the
same latitude as our Carolinas. Just
get your map and look 1t up. But this
part of Palestine was the valley OF Jor>
dan and the whole of this valley in
cluding the Sea of Galilee and the
Rer1 Sea, are eco feet or more below
the level of the ocean, and tha. explains
its tropical climate. We are familiar
with the fact that when we climb lofty
mountains we find csider weather and
such trees and plants as We find In
colder lati;udes. very much as we
would in going rapidly toward the poles.
If we go high enoagh We Will reach
the line of perpetual snow ard ice anu
the st.nted, starved vegetation Of the
Polar regions. This is tn case on the
Himaiayas and the Andes and other
mountains in the tropics. But there
are very few valleys that lie below the
sea level, SO we have not thought SO
much about the increasing warmth OF
valleys as about the cold of mountains.
l wonder what kind of climate and
vegetation there would be if such low
valleys Law within the tropics.
Year: 1878

Washington, March 21.-In the SEN
ate to-day Morgan, of Alabama, op-
posed the second section of the timber
bill, and said the Secretary of the In
terror had relied upon men not whorthy
of trust, and refused to hear men who
were worthy of trust in regard to these
timber depredations. The conduct of
the Secretary of the Interior as to the
public timber lands had been evasive
and not candid. He gave notice that
at the proper time he would move to
strike out the second section of the
bill.


Matthews said: Whatever else might
result from this debate one good would
follow; it would demonstrate the neces-
sity for some wise and systematic legis-
lation covering this entire subject. He
argued that the Government owned the
land together with the timber thereon,
and any person engaged IN cutting said
timber became trespasser. AS owner
of the property, the United States had
right to follow it and take it where
ever found. IL il could be done with.
out breach of trust, the real gist of the
accusations against the Secretary of
the Interior was not that usually heard
about the negligence of public officer,
but that according to his sense of duty
he was enforcing the law, and because
of that he is arraigned as oppressive to
individuals and as being un-American.
He (Matthews) thought it was one of our
cherished maxims and principles that
the best way to secure the repeal of
obnoxious laws WAS to rigidly enforce
them.
Year: 1878

IT is stated at the postoffice depart
ment that the saving to the govern
ment in the recent mail lettings over
the previous contract prices exceeds a
million dollars. 1t is difficult, however,
to judge what the ultimate savings may
be, inasmuch as it is not altogether
certain that some parties who have
contracted to carry mails at cheap rates
may not find themselves able to carry
out the contracts.
Year: 1878

New York, March 20.-A meeting
of the projectors of the New York Met
ropolitan Exchange was held this morn
ing. One hundred and fifty names of
members have been enrolled and over
300 applications for membership have
been made. 1t was decided to organize
on the plan of the Paris Bourse. Every
person making Transaction will be
compelled to put up one per cent. mar
gin with the treasurer, to protect other
members.
Year: 1878

Providence, March 21.--At Foster,
this state, last night, VIM. Ide return
ed home drunk and badly beat his wife
who had also been drinking. After the
husband fell asleep the wife took
double barrelled shot gun and killed
him.
Year: 1878

IT is stated in parliamentary circles
at Berlin, that the vacancy in the Min
istry of the interior had been definitely
filled by the appointment of Count Won
Ellenberg, hitherto governor of Hano-
yer, the nephew of count F. A. Won
Ellenburg, who resigned the Port
folio of the Interior on October last.
Year: 1878

TEN THOUSAND dollars of the new
coinage was received at the Treasury
Department Thursday, and the balance
Of new silver dollars in the treasury
vaults at noon was fourteen thousand
three hundred dollars.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Edmunds's bill rests upon the theory
that, as the Constitution of the United
States imposes upon each State the power
and duty of appointing electors, it is the
duty of the Government Of each State to
ascertain and determine who its electors are;
and that whenever State has 50 disposed of
the question it is the duty of the authority
counting the electoral votes, as provided IN
the Constitution, to respect such action of
the States. In order ID enable each State
finally to ascertain what electors it has ac-
thorized to be appointed, the day of the ap-
pointment is fixed on the first Tuesday in
October, and the day of tie meeting of the
electors on the second Monday in January.
thus giving more than three months within
which each State in its own way may ascer-
tain what has been done. and give effect to
its will accordingly. In case the State does
not do that. the bill regulates the method o
deciding any disputed case TN the occasion
of the counting, by requiring that the vote OF
any State shall be rejected in the case of
single return without the concurrence Of
both Houses Of Congress, and in a case
of double returns that none shall be re-
ceivcd without tho concurrence Of both
Houses The bill thus gives the final deter
mination Of a disputed election to Congress.
If it becomes law, and the Democrats coz
troll both Houses Of Congress, they will prac-
tically control the election. Their ingenuity
in getting up contested cases is furnished.
In any State in which they control the State
Government, as in Ohio, for instance, they
will manage if the Republicans carry it for
President, To secure either false or double
returns and having both Houses of Coz
gress they will count which they choose.
This would be lnO worse than to have the
matter lett to an Electoral Commission to be
constituted by Congress. Neither can We see
that it would be much better. There may
be no better way but it is possible it would
seem to be most desirable tha; a disputed
choice of Electors should be settled BY sons
non-partisan body.
Year: 1878

A DEAF MANS MUsISGs Words confuse
ideas use as few as possible.


There is discount on the most perfect
happiness.


Tho blush of n maiden is natures signal of
warning.


Not one man in a thousand marries the
girl he most wanted.


The devil is always ready to give advice,
but he eXacts high ices.


There are many moral people whose viz
tues somehow seem to he misfit.


Discomfort Is a vital element of ciyiliza-
tion without 1t there would be no pro-
gress.


The quiet fellow in the corner who lets his
rival do all the talking generally marries the
girl.


If mankind were turned into different
forms of food a motheT-in-law would make
hOrseradlsh.


There are people who should be known as
''tapeworm takers They are terror to all
busy men.


Every man coming to an obscure old age
thinks he would have achieved wealth and
distinction if


Let young men be patient in their wooing,
for a maidens love may be cold on her lips
vet warm in her heart.


II .immeuately the cock crew" every
time a man lied in these latter days what a
din there would be


In the quiet Of the early morning we
should laden our hearts with kindness and
good will for use during the day.
Year: 1878

The Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times gives what purports to be a correct account of the plan fixed upon last summer for displacing Hayes and inaugurating Tildcn. Just before leaving for Europe Tilden, according to this correspondent, had conference with intimate friends, consisting ot leading men from every State and one member of the Supreme Court, to devise means to gain the place to which he believed himself to have been elected Tnls idea was to hit upon plan that could be acted on imme- diately. Quo warranto proceedings would be too long, and it was finally concluded that bill might be introduced giving the Supreme Court original jurisdiction in certain matters connected with State rights. A bill was to be passed permitting the State of Louisiana to come before the United States Supreme Court and declare that the electoral vote of that State had been wrongly counted for Hayes, and ap- ply for writ commanding Mir. Hayes to show by what warrant this was done. It was thought that Senators enough could be found to be induced, under various in- fiuences, to pass the bill. A prominent Louisiana politician was to arrange for Louisiana coming forward and demanding the bill. A jury would be required, and it was decided that the bill should allow the selection of jury from the Chief Justices of the various States, and, if they should be exhausted, then from the Associate Justices. When the matter was ready, it was laid before five prominent Southern men. Much to the disgust of the mana
Year: 1878

"A Mrs. WILDER, friend and former
teacher of Mrs. Hayes il guest at the
White House, and is also an applicant for
the appointment Of Post Mistress at Gin
cinnatti It is thought that If she does
not receive the appointment Of P. NJ, that
she will be assistant. y
Year: 1878

In vanished days sand: "If God shall give
To me contentment, cause my path to lie
Through ways of pleasantness, then may
live


A peaceful life and peacefully may die;
And Joy shall surely through these channels
flow,


If God shall bless me So"
Bat now say: "lf God shall give me theei
SO ends my prayer. If / at last may bend
Before thee, loved one, who art more to me
Than all that life holds dear, that hour shall
end
All, save the dearest JOY that man may know,


If God shall bless me so.
We walk through life in devious ways; no
light


Illumes the distant futures shadowy mist;
But, like some phantom of the lonely night,
Come yearning thoughts my soul can not
resist:
long TO share the joys my faneies know.


Kind Lord o bless me sol
Year: 1878

Somebody says that the woman who runs
into a neighbor's because it thunders, and
screams at every fash, will. when she goes
home and finds the fire low, hurry it up
with kerosene turned on from gallon can
as calmly as doctor giving baby spoon
full Of narcotic soothing syrup.
Year: 1878

The following rules are issued from
q New York cheese factory for the use
of patrons, and are worthy ofa widel
dissemination:


l. Milk COWS should have free ac-
cess at all times, to good running water


2. They should never be heated by
being run, stoned or dogged.


3. The utmost cleanliness should be
observed in milking, and by no means
wet the hands in the milk while milk.
ing.


4. No can Of milk should be allowed
stand where it will absorb the barn
yard or stable odor, or any other scent


5. The milk should be strained and
we'll aired Immediately after being
drawn from the cows.


6. Some arrangement for effectually
cooling is at allitimes very desirable
and when the milk is kept at home
over night is indispensable.


7. Scalding all vessels about milk a
least once day, with boiling water
and rinsing with cold water at night
is essential.
Year: 1878

As long as this has been used in the
laboratory Of the chemist, it is surpris-
ing that it has not introduced itself in
to popular use, as it is not only cheap
er, but superior in many respects to
gum arabic. Five cents worth will
make pint Of mucilage. Break into
small bits--if pulverized the mucilage
will be made sooner-put it into q
wide mouthed bottle, and fill up with
soft water. If too thick, thin with
water. To preserve it from moulding
stir in a few drops Of the oil of cloves,
or of carbolic acid, creosote, or a few
grains of sulphate of quinine, or few
cloves. The oil OF cloves is the best,
for it is not only an excellent preserva.
ton, but it also gives the mucilage a
fine fragrance. Aud, BY the way, oil
of cloves is an excellent remedy to
have in the house In case Of toothaohe.
To the bottle fit a cork, through which
put a small round paint -brush.-Cen-
trai Baptist