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Year: 1877

of the newspapers has been in vain in the past.

 Again tho newspapers are coun- sellng the planters to make less cot ton. Again the farmer is appealed to to diversity his crop--to give more attention to stock and grain farming, and make less cotton. Just at this time there are accumulated reasons why the planters and farm CTS of the South should consider we'll this admorition, and he who rashly goes headlong now giving his whole attention to cotton has bankruptcy and ruin staring him in the face at no great distance in the future. With the certainty of war and com motion of severe nature in Europe, which will in all probability contin- ue and last until after the present years crop will be marketed, our farmers may expect lower prices for cotton. Cotton lower and provisions higher is the inevitable result to us of the war in Europe. It will be ruinous for any man this year to attempt to grow cotton enough to to buy his bread and meat. It is fortunate for the South that they have fair warning in time to avoid the disaster which an all-cotton crop will surely bring this year. And fortunate will be the man who will so diversity his crop that he will not have to depend upon the pro- ceeds of his cotton for the comforts and necessities of life next season. Be wise in time, farmers of the South, for surely the all-cotton policy will bring disaster this year.
Year: 1877

How many of the taxpayers ot Pope county know anything about the financial standing of Pope coun ty for the past year? We venture to say not fifty. The people are q lit tie interested in this matter and a proper regard for their interest and convenience in this matter would suggest that they should have . statement submitted to them once q year. The law We believe, provides that an annual statement of the re- ceipts and expenditures together with detailed statement of the in debtedness and financial condition of the county shall be made up and pos ted on the court house door each year between the third Monday ln January and the third Monday in February. This we presume has been done. The law places it with in the dlscretis of the County Court to order this Financial Statement published in some weekly newspaper published in the county. Such pub lication has not been made in our county, and consequently the igno- rance in regard to the financia. con

 dition of our county. The county may have good and justifiable reas- ons for not authorizing such publi- cation. We take it that there are good reasons, for we do not think that we have county official who desires to with hold full information from the people. What the reason is, we do not know,-we only infer that the county is not able to pay the expense of the publication. This inference leads us to the further in ference that the county is either in a bad condition financially, or that the County Court has been very foolish in cutting down appropriations so low that the pitiful expense of pub hslling the financial statement can not be undertaken. We do not be- lieve that our county is financially embarrassed, but rather that the lat ter inference is true. At any rate the people should have an annual showing of the condition of the county finances, and if the county can not afford to pay for the publica- ton, We will make, and do now make the proposition to publish it gratis, We make this offer only on the con dition that the County Court re- quests it to be done gratuously on account of some reason better than mere parsimoniousness.
Year: 1877

We fear the mortgage business is being run too heavily this year. From what we can observe we believe there are more mortgages being given this year than common. Cred itor and debtor will both do well to be cautious in this matter. It will be setback to the country if this matter is not watched closely. Cot ton will be very low and the articles of subsistence for man and beast very high. The mortgager cunnot afford this year to entail a debt upon himself greater than he can dis charge. The party who makes ad- vances cannot afford to oadvance more than he is sure to receive back this fall. A crash in the South will be avoided by prudence Tn this mort gage business. let moderation, fru- gality and industry be exercised by him who is compelled to mortgage his crop this year, so that instead of having debt left against him this fall, he may have an overplus after satisfying his mortgage.
Year: 1877

under the same belief. If we nave been laboring under . delhsion in this matter, we wish to know it; and it now seems that we have, for 1t seems that the pay for printing Assessors blank statements comes in State Scrip. We now wish to know what other expenses are being paid Tn State scrip. The people have a right to know this, and there should be no deception about it. We therefore, ask the question, Is the State Scrip Mill again in Operation? We will wait for reply from some one who knows.
Year: 1877

A reeently-appointed Scotch bailie
took his seat, for the first time. on
the msgisterial bench. Looking
sternly around, be thus addressed the
assemblage Hitherto there have
been many complaints as 10 how im-
partially Affairs have been carried ouE
here Lut / intend that the business
at this court shall in the future be
conducted neither partially or impair
tally
Year: 1877

OF LAND, consisting of every odd section IN each
township. for distance of twenty miles on both
sizes OF the read or one-half Of the land in belt
forty miles VIDE exter ding 70 Denver City In Col-
orado, thus forming continuation Of the belt Of
country which, from the Atlantic coast westward,
is found to be. In climate soil and every prciuc-
, tion of nature the mos; favored.


To aid in the settlement Of this superb domain
with an intelligent and industrious people, is the
object Q. the HOMESTEAD. 1t is intended TO
contain fair and candid representation Of facts
nor will 1t ever give, Intentionally, any statement
that viii not, upon investigation, be fully sus-
lained.


The Company obtains its title TO these lands
from the Government Of the United States


They are being offered AZ prices lower than any
other lands in the West, that will compare with
them in soil climate and general advantages
Theierms Of payment, as will be found a care
full examination. more liberal in all essential
features than have heretofore been offered by any
railway company.
Year: 1877

Baltimore American


Until very lately on occasional
fine days a venerable lady, much
bent in figure, but with an air of
distinguishment about her, might
have been seen walking slowly down
Charles street avenue, leaning on
the arm of young and handsome
man of medium hight, squarely
built figure and dark complexion.
There was something SO out of
common about the couple that
paSsers-by who did not know them
stopped to take second look and
wonder who they were. People
who were well acquainted in the
city stopped also and remarked one
to another, "There are Madame
Bonaparte and her grandson" The
venerable lady was the widely re-
nowned Madame Bonaparte, and
her escort was Charles Jerome
Bonaparte, her grandson, rising
young member of the Baltimore
bar. Recently the distinguished
lady, now ninety.odd years Of age,
has become very feeble and does
not venture out of doors, and there
are grave apprehensions that her
romantic and most eventful career
is fast approaching its close.
Year: 1877

Your birthday, near the beating heart OF June


Has come again, o Sweet
In mAtohless splendor OF the Summers noon
When honey climb, AZ il to meet
Celestial sunshine, dropped at angels feet
Like tender notes OF an unfinished song,


Your birthdays come and go;
And 'bove life's passion, purely borne along,
We catch the exultant measures AZ they flow
Towards the unwritten music none can know.
What wishes can offer you to-day


In my imperfect sight
What would seem good might draw your SOU


away


From the diviner gllmmerings OF light
Pathways are steep nidt reach ne mO,Htdin''


height
Yet in the budding glory Of this June,


would that you may see
A sweet foreshadoNing Of endless Noon
A type Of fairer Summer yet TO be,
And Of glorious Immortality.
Year: 1877

again. At last he traced her to Paris,
TO learn that she was on the point OF
forming a connection with some one
else; and then, in frenzy Of despair
and jealousy, he committed the crime
for which he was now apprehended.


81 did the poor wrech harm instead
of good by letting him CO." said Hill
coat to his wife. at is always better
to stick 10 the strict letter of the law; |
not only committed an offence against
the public veal, but drew on the indi-
vidual to deeper crime and a heavier
punishment by compounding his felony.
Year: 1877

The proposition Of the HERALD that our
government should adopt the plan which
has been in successful operation in England
for the last sixteen years, with the universal
approval Of the English public, for protect
ing the savings of the poor against the or
ganized thievery Of which they are SO con-
stantly the Victims is attracting wide atten-
ton. 1t is strongly indorsed by portion
of the press and feebly condemned by an
other portion. Even the journals which
doubt its expediency make no ques-
ton of its practicability and do not
dispute that the security of de-
positors would be perfect. SO far, there
fore, as the interests and safety Of de-
positors are concerned there is but one
side to the question. 1t is not wild and
untried experiment. for the most practical
nation on the globe long ago put it in
operation, and its wisdom is amply vindi-
Gated by the results. 1t would promote q
frugal disposition to save, not only by in
spiriuc an increased sense of security, but
by bringing savings banks facilities within
the reach Of large part of our population
VINO 90 uOl low eAJoy eASLn. AAe tIumP
nuisance renders ii more and more unsafe Tor
people living in the country to keep money
in their houses but they nre so remote from
savings banks that they cannot avail them
selves of this means of security, and, be-
sides the risk from burglars, their money
earns nothing while they keep it locked up
in drawers TO be sure, it might as well go
to thieves and burglars as to the rapacious
swindlers who rob the poor In cities under
the pretence Of taking care of their savings
and paying interest for them; but it would
be better for people both in city and
country to have their spare cash in
safe custody. That the Post Office system
which has had such complete success in
England would be an equally great blessing
TO depositors in this country nobody dis
putes, and the only objection made to the
plan is that it is not within the proper func-
tions of the federal government. But thus
far this is mere assertion, unsupported by
even pretcnce of argument.


Our Post Office is constantly doing things
which rest upon precisely the same principle
as the proposed savings bank. The money
order system is a pertinent illustration.
Why should the Post Office receive money
in Maine and engage to pay out an
| equal sum in California? 1t is doing
Year: 1877

We print to-day with great pleasure q
letter from Commander Selfridge, of the
United States Navy. in regard to some
points in the surveys for an isthmus ship
canal, and particularly in correction of GER
tain errors with regard to his own part of
the work which crept into an article on the
subject printed in these columns some days
ago. If our statements did injustice to his
services in this arduous field it was through
inadvertence and not intention; and, since
they have drawn correction from him,
there is the less ground to regret their ap-
pearance, for they can do no harm to his
reputation, while every word from those
familiar with the surveys tends to increase
the popular knowledge of this subject, and
is, therefore, an advantage to the country.
Year: 1877

this, or what is1squivalent to this, every
day in the yer. to the great conven-
fence of the senders and the general satis-
faction of the public No growler has been
SO churlish, no prater OF constitutional
metaphysics has been SO scrupulous, as to
raise any objection to the money order sys-
tenn, which does not differ in principle from
the savings bank system which we recon-
mend. Under the money order system the
Post Office takes the money of the people IN
one place, becomes responsible for it and
pays it out in a distant place. Un-
der the savings bank system the Post
Office would take the money Of the people
in one place, become responsible for it and
pay it out in the same place. If anybody
can 'insert his metaphysical scissors be-
tween the two and split the principle on
which they alike depend We will pay our re-
spectful attention to the feat. We do not
throw out challenge. but we assert, with
out fear of successful contradiction, that
there is no constitutional argument against
Post Office savings bank which is not an
equally valid argument against the Post
Office money orders.
Year: 1877

From Shumla we hear at last of that Otto
man advance against the Russian left which
it was perhaps intended should be made
simultaneously with Suleiman Pacha's ad-
vance against the Russian lines in the
Shipka Pass, and which is, therefore, some
what behind time. 1t may be that in this
case it is better late than never; but we
doubt if that maxim can be regarded as
sound in military sense when the lateness
implies that the period for an effective CO.
operation is gone by. Although it is OBJ
vious that the Russians in the pass have not
yet freed their front from the tena-
cious foe that has assailed it for 30
many days it does not appear that
that foe is able to do more than
annoy and embarrass the defenders of the
position He cannot carry their lines but
his menace in that quarter will compel them
to keep in hand in that direction consid-
erable part, ifnot the whole, OF the force that
was hurried thither to fight him. Will this
so reduce the numbers of the Russians on
their line below Gabrova as to weaken their
defence of those lines, and, consequently,
afford favorable opportunity to the Otto
man army of the quad rilateral? We do not
believe it will, and, if it does not, then all
the advantage that the Turks could have
gained from the combined movement
against two points on their enemys line is
lost. This is a grave fault in their opera
TONS


1t is reported that the column of Selim
Pacha advanced on Friday from Eski
Djuma to the line Of the LON and crossed
that river, and that the Russians fled before
him, offering but trivial resistance. Further,
that Nedjih Pacha advanced from Rasgrad
toward Torlak some few miles to the east
of the LON, also driving before him the
clouds Of flying Russians. Fighting, it is
said, continued all day. The most impor-
tant feature Of this advance was the engage
ment which took place at Karahassanler.
from which Mehemet Ali claims the Rus
slams were driven with loss Of four thou
sand men after desperate fighting The
Turks acknowledge loss Of three thousand
men, SO that, although the position does not
appear to be Of first rate importance to the
Russians at present, they evidently acted
on the plan Of the Council Of War-namely,
to retire from no more positions without
being forced out. In regard to the Russian
army in Bulgaria the defeated force was
only holding an advanced post.


BY the time the Ottoman advance reaches
the Jantra it will find change in this par
ticular. The Russian line of advance is that
zone of country between the Jantra and the
Osma rivers, with the Balkans at one end
and the Danube at the other. Their line of
defence for this district is toward the quad
rilateral, on or near the Jantra.
Year: 1877

Blumders OF the French Government


In one more important point the French
government has been compelled to amend
it's proceedings against NJ Gambetta. He
was at the last accounts to have been prose-
cuted as an accomplice in the publication
of his own speech, as it appeared in the
Progres du Nord a journal published in
Lille, where the speech was delivered. His
trial was, therefore, ,sort OF legal adjunct
to the trial of the offending journalist.
But now the government has learned that
the Lille journal copied the speech from the
RfpuJlique Fancaise SO the proceedings are
transferred to Paris as adjunct to the prose-
cution of the Partisan journal. Such vacil-
lation of purpose and such blundering is
not often seen in the politics Of any
country, and it is pity for the rep
utation of the President for fair
ness and common sense that he did
not find out where to begin before moving
in this case. From the evidence given of
the perceptions Of the Ministry this might
have compelled the government to wait
great while but the delay would have been
salutary 1t is said in the anecdotical
chronicles there was once man who had so
much to do that he did not know what
to do first; and unable to decide this
great issue, and unwilling to be
unjust, he calmly gathered up his
tackle and went fishing. That heroic escape
from painful dilemma was worthy a great
man, and if the President of France had
been equally we'll balanced in practical
philosophy--ifhe he had gone fishing OF shoot
ing or occupied himself with any other
harmless sport to which his faculties are
equal-he would at least have escaped
the ridiculous mishap of doing the
wrong thing first and second and
third and fourth, and being compelled each
time to undo it and begin again. In the
case of the proposed prosecution of M.
Chardon, the Senator for Savoy, the govern
ment has also put itself in the comical po-
sition of not knowing the law before it be-
gan, or of admitting after it began that that
is the law which is not 1t abandons this
case because Senator cannot be prosecuted
without the consent of the body Of which
he is a member. How can q government so
little acquainted with the law us this blum
der implies be relied upon to defend that
law against all comers?
Year: 1877

REPUBLICAN PoLITICs-Our correspondent at


Saratoga throws some light on the republican
situation as it appears ut that famous watering
place. To we'll known politician who is a keen
observer of men and public affairs it looks as if
we had first class game of political chess on
hand, in which the next Presidential nomination
Is the stake, and Mr.. Sherman. Mr. Evarts, Mr.


Conk1ing and possibly one two others are the
players. The whole thing is very amusing The
next Presidential election is far in the distance.
and it Is more than probable that political pat
ronagc will have very little to do with it. Since
New York became q State, however, we have
always had political intrigue of some sort or
another, and our correspondents letter shows
that our politicians have not lost their cunning.
Year: 1877

ton. But if we are bound by hard bar
gain it is satisfactory to know that the credit
OF the city is SO good that nobody fortunate
part with them. In spite of enormous
waste, gigantic frauds and so many years Of
maladministration as the city has gone
through, and in spite Of the debt which
grew so rapidly during the Tweed regime,
the financial world has unshaken confidence
class of securities safer than the bonds OF
this city.


But the high credit of the city does not,
as we think, rest at all on the fact put for
ward by Mr.. Kelly that the city owns real
estate whose value is nearly double the
amount of its debt. The Comptroller bor-
rows this line of argument from some OF his
predecessors, but even if it were hundred
times repeated there would be little In 1t.
Who believes that the Central Park and our
other parks will ever be divided into build
ing lots and sold? If the city should ever
he reduced to such straits as to try to
make this an available resource real
estate here would have sunk to q
low ebb indeed, and lots in Central Park
would hardly find purchasers. 1t is ridic-
ulous to regard this property as possible
resource for the payment of debts. Ii the
city should 90 to ruin neither that nor any
other land within it's limits will possess
much value; but until the city goes to ruin
the Park is no more to be regarded as a
piece of salable property than our noble
and beautiful bay. The credit of the city
depends on it's relation to the commerce of
the country and the commerce of the world,
which will cause it to grow in population
and wealth for centuries to come 1t is the
certainty that its taxable property in prl-
vate hands will increase from generation to
generation that lies at the foundation Of the
city's credit and causes keen-sighted capital
lists to feel such undoubting confidence in
its bonds.
Year: 1877

BALTIMORE AND BUFFALO must he added to
the list Of cities in which the business outlook is
bright and cheerful. There can he no better
gauge OF the commercial condition than the
canal statistics, and the returns for last month
show very large increase in business Not
withstanding the reduction of tolls nearly fifty
per cent the receipts for last month as compared
with those a year ago were largely increased
The prospects of good fall trade and return
Of prosperity are good everywhere.
Year: 1877

THERE Is No POSITIVE information ut Wash.
ington as to the exact position of Sitting Bull
1t seems to be the belief of the War Department
that he is still in Canada. and under that inn
preston the commission will 90 to Canada and
demand his surrender. Canada will probably
tell the commission to take him..
Year: 1877

SENIOR MATA, the Mexican representative at
Washington, in advising his government to send
R large force of troops to the frontier has taken
y rather strange course to alay public feeling on
this very vexatious question. If, however,
when they get there they help keep their rob
bers and marauders ut home their presence may
have the desired effect.
Year: 1877

The DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for Governor in
Virginia has rendered substantial service to his
State and his party by setting his foot down on
the reputation programme in that State. To
be sure they do not call it Reputation, but that
is what it means. Virginia is too proud to follow
Georgia into dishonor
Year: 1877

cicault might well say that the drama
had declined. He errs in the inference that
an art degenerates when the appearance OF
great artists is for an indefinite period sus-
pended by a new productive tendency OF
the world
Year: 1877

The PROHIBrrIoN PARTY in Iowa will take
iome votes from the republicans, but, of course
not enough to change the result. Prohibition
not being in the democratic creed they are
specially incensed against the republicans, for
whom they believe cold water is strong enough