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Year: 1877

Fire Department.


The corporate authorities Of Leonsrdtown are
about erecting a house for the accommodation OF
the Fire Department Of the village. It is pro-
posed to do this by private subscription and 50 far
the Committee have been successful. wesee the ne
cessity for this measure and wish that it may lie
pushed speedily to completion. We believe in
the old proverb, San ounce Of preventative y
&c, and would counsel all property -holders to
aid in this precautionary undertaking. And,
by-the-by, We think that the county, which OWLS
property Of considerable value in close proximity
to the proposed site of the house, should aid the
corporate authorities in its ultimate completion
The COS, Of the building will be very small, and
the eoun,y's money, to n small amount, could
not, We think, he better spent. Wehave already
lost one Court House and valuable records BY
fire.
Year: 1877

Our county is suffering very much At this
fair promise Of few weeks ago for full crops of
corn and tobacco in this section will come to
sad disappointment. In pretty much all light
land, corn is badly fired or firing and in the
same character Of soil, tobacco is '.bu.,oning
up" without its usual spread, and rapidly go
ing to ground leaf No rain would, Of course,
now remedy these disasters, bu, . good season
within few days would greatly advance both
latter corn and tobacco.
Year: 1877

THERE is no earthly cause for any
opposition 10 The regular Democratic
ticket in this county, 1t is a good
ticket, II is incomparably superior o
the tickets that used 10 be put forward
when negro influence was felt in our
politics. Taken as a whole, no Eeason.
able man can find fault with II, and all
men who voted al the Primary election
ought to support II. Yet we hear that
an attempt will be made TO defeat some
Of the nominees. We deplore this, for
the attempt 10 bea: any man on the
ticket is q blow at the party. Men may
call themselves Democrats, and in fact
they may be Democrats, but if they
oppose nominations which they took
part In making, they are striking blow
at the Democratic party. There Is such
q thing as party committing suicide,
and when Democrats attack regularly
declared Democratic nominations, they
are attempting TO commit political sui.
eide. Suppose, for the sake Of argu-
ment, that q movement against some
of The nominations should result in sue
cess. sit not plain that the party would
be severely crippled If not in fact fa'
tally wounded2 Is 1t reasonable tC
suppose that the friends Of the defeated
nominees would ever again trust the
political pledges Of the Democrats
who defeated the men they Themselves
took part in nominating3 Such a sup
position is simply incredible. For
party 10 exert power and influence
party pledges must be kept even If i
does take little sacrifice Of persona
feelings.


Any other course means that after
decision has been reached within ou
party that there can be an excuse TO
some OF our party appealing to nsGrOe
to reverse that decision. When this i
done successfully, negro influence !
restored. Are our citizens ready TO
this1 We are sure they are not.
Year: 1877

The Philadelphia Press makes fun Of
this oddlty in the following style:


$50 Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer will DO
among the multitude of candidates for
the United States Senate to succeed the
late Senator Bogy! Mfr. Pulitzer is q
young man Of remarkable parts, and as
q statesman has already done as much
for his adopted country as 1t has right
10 expect OF him. II Is certainly too
much to ask q young man to stretch his
still growing genius over so much
ground. The expansion would prove
dangerous. Mr.. Pulitzer has earned his
right to retire on half pay. He has
saved the country from destruction at
least hali.a.dOzen times by his able and
powerful contributions to different
newspapers, and nobody even now
feels wholly secure unless Pulitzer is
on deck writing something. No one
will for an instant doubt that this illus
trious Missourian would be q credit to
his State in the Senate, but It is too
much to ask Of one who has already
worn himself out in the service Of his
country, chiefly on tbs stump and
through the newspapers. If he were
In the Senate, too, his pen might lie
idle, and this country can never afford
to have the pen Of Pulitzer laid aside
not while SchurZ remains In public
life."
Year: 1877

The Jackson Clarion and Holly
Springs South are thoroughly discuss
ing the grand jury system. When
they get through with their discussion,
If they will discover some way to keep
ignoramuses of our juries they will
do the Commonwealth an invaluable
service.
Year: 1877

n no BubscriberS.-An "X"wA
in blue pencil mark, on your pa
per, is o notification that your
subscription will expire in two
weeks, and your paper will be
discontinued, unless otherwise


ordered.
Year: 1877

AS tor the river, in talking about Lon
don suburbs we should have come to that
first of all. The Thames is the great
feature of suburban London; and these
neighborhoods are, for the most part,
relation to It. EondoneTs apprsrrHtr
their river in the highest degree; and
they manifest their regard in thor
oughly practical fashion. They use the
Thames; it might almost be said they
abuse it. They Use it, mean. for pleas
ure; for above Chelsea bridge there are
happily few traces of polluting traffic.
When once indeed, going up the stream,
you fairly emerge from the region of the
London bridges, the Thames turns rural
with surprising quickness At every
bend and reach it throws off something
Of metropolitan degradation; with
each successive mile it takes on another
prettiness. By the time you reach Rich
mond, which is only nine miles from
London, this suburban prettiness touches
its maximum. Higher in its course the
Thames is extremely pretty; but moth
ing can well be so charming as what you
see of it from Richmond bridge and Just
above. The bridge itself is very happy
piece of picturesqueness. Sketches and
photographs have, l believe, made it
more or less classical. The banks are
lined compactly with villas embowered
in walled gardens, which Ire on the slope
of Richmond hill, whose crest, as seen
from below, is formed by the long, bosky
mass of Richmond park.


To speak of Richmond park is to speak
of one of the loveliest spots in England.
1t has not the vast extent of Windsor,
but in other respects it is quite as fine.
1t is poor work talking of English parks,
for one is reduced to ringing the changes
on a few lamentably vague epithets of
praise. One talks of giant oaks and
grassy DOWNS of browsing deer and
glades of bracken; and yet nine-tenths
OF what one would say remains unsaid.
/ will therefore content myself with
observing that, to take walk in Rich
mond park and afterward repair to the
Star and Garter inn to satisfy the appe-
tite you have honestly stimulated, is as
complete an entertainment as you are
likely to find. 1t is rounded off by your
appreciation of the famous view of the
Thames from the windows of the inn
the view which Turner has painted and
poets have versifed, and which certainly
is as charming as possible, though to an
American eye it just grazes, a trifle
painfully, the peril of over-tameness.
But the river makes graceful, conscious
bend, and wanders away into that thick
detail of distance characteristic of the
English landscape.-Henry James, .jr., in
GALAXY.
Year: 1877

The incoming New York legislature
Will be remarkable Tor the COM
paratively small number Of experienced
men who go to make. it up, and for the
Large proportion of gentlemen who have
distinguished themselves in other walks
OF life, but who have now for the first
time been elected to their present posi-
tiona \
Year: 1877

THEY have honest farmers in old
Berks, Pa. The market commissioner Of
Reading, while going through the market
the other day weighing butter, found q
quantity belonging tO farmer, each
lump of which weighed pound and a
half, and which humps the dealer was
selling for pound.
Year: 1877

A CORRESPONDENT who has recently
travelled considerably over the Southern
States, says there is not much building
activity at amy point, though little is
being done in every quarter.
Year: 1877

1T is not generally known that there is
an extensive salt lake on the top of the
lehachepi mountain in California, about
six miles southwest of the point where


the Southern Pacific railroad crosses the
ountains. The lake is somewhat diff
cult OF access, but salt is gathered from
the bottom of the lake, where it lies in
layers from one to six inches, and shipped
to San Francisco.
Year: 1877

The building of the Gilbert Elevated
Railroad in New York is advancing
with almost marvellous rapidity. Be-
tween Seventeenth and Forty-second
streets, on Sixth avenue, upward of 500
men are working day and night at the
foundation, which it is expected will be
finished down as far as Worth street
next month. The opposition against the
project seems to be entirely dying.
Year: 1877

Of thy brow shalt thou eat bread l' Did
this mean that some were, by the aid of
devices, by the monopoly Of gold bounties,


by nsury, to 60 clothed in fine linen, and
feast upon the fat of the land Out upon
upon the damnable hypocrisy that pretends


to worship God while violating his express


commands, and condemning their brethren
and sisters 10 poverty and misery. How


long do they think they will escape Gods
vengeance Their brothers and sisters


blood already cries aloud from the ground.


What means our Declaration of Indepen-
dence, wherein it says all persons are by
nature free and equal What kind of
equality is that which our governors, who
obtain their places BY manipulating politi-
cal parties and yoking us into the traces,
concede to us Brother John, We want
but one thing to right ali these wrongs.
We want equal rights. We want the same
right that the bankers now have to the
Tree use of the national money. We have
a better right, for We are industrious and
willing to work They are lazy. Only
give us the free use of the national money
upon our security-labor-and there is no
other security in all this country for any
money loaned. Labor alone pays the
principal and interest With the national
money loaned to us upon the very same
terms that 1t is now loaned to the national
bankers, to-wit gratis, to prosecute our
Industries, and we will own all the proper
ty In the country in few years for then
there will Ce no more living upon usury or
the rent of houses or lands. for we can
build our own houses, buy our own lands
and work them, giving our property as
security for the loan. There would no
longer be any depreciations II the value Of
property; pioneers would no longer be
driven into the wilderness to seek For
themseles homes. Peace and plenty would
reign among the dwellers In the land; men
and women would be free, and walk up
right before God and man, and not be
compelled, as they now are, to bow in meek
submission before arrogant mortals, whose
only superiority consist in having amassed
surplus Of this worlds goods by system
of fraud. c. B. Smith.


T. S.-The method pursued by the Cau-
cassians Is not to mOlest the Cinnamon
hut they ascertain who it is that employ
Chinese labor. They 20 to him and say
" Il you discharge your Chinese help, we
will furnish you with good, steady white
men," Il the offer is refused, then the
Caucasians pass a resolution that no Cau-
caslan shall buy of that person or use his
manufacture. This they have perfect
right to do, and it is telling. Let these
who employ Cinnamon look to the Chinese
for their customers. What right have they
to complain if white men do not consume
their goods when they do not employ theml
They, rather than patrohize men who are
reereant to every sentiment of equity,
Justice, or patriotism, prefer to buy from
the Cinnamon themselves This is why
the papers are trying to hound the Caucas-
ians but they had better be careful lest
this ostracism extend to newspapers them
selves. c. B.. ).
Year: 1877

some of the best paying Offices, although
the citizens Of that nationality were told
that it would be disgrace for them to as
sociate with slch set of fanatics as the
Independents. We have some good citi-
zens among our German population, but
there are also some. demagogues and big
oted ignoramuses among them also.


i zee our friends in Braidwood are doing
well. hope you are all at work, and may
our cause progress and finally succeed.


q H
Year: 1877

Capt. Gunson, of the ship Patterdale
relates a thrilling story of the escape OF
one of his ships boys from the NAV of a
shark. The ship was in the tropics, with
wind enough to keep the canvass from
Topping, and one of the apprentices
was over the weather side, cleaning off


The captain, standing on the poop
deck, noticed that the boy was careless,
and warned him to look out for himself
and not tumble overheard. The ship
was going about three knots an hour, and
the sea almost as calm as a mill pond.
The lad, in a moment of caTelessness, lost
his balance, and fell from the platform
slung over the side. The captain saw
the accident, and threw him q ladder,
which the boy grasped, and clambered
up on the rounds as the ship left him
astern.


No sooner had the boy settled himself
on the ladder than brace of large blue
sharks ranged up alongside, and actually
reared their heads out of the water in
their eagerness to taste the young sailor.
The boy screamed Justify, and grew half
frantic from terror. The ship was hove
to, and boat was lowered. Still the
boy hung unto the ladder. trying to
keep his legs free from the swapping oi
the vicious sharks, which seemed actu.
ally to jump out of the water to get at
/ him. After some twenty-five minutes o1
! horrible suspense, a boat was lowered
and he got intS it. As soon as the hoy
| found himself safe he tainted. II was q
/ fearlully narrow escape.
Year: 1877

TIE city of Louisville is the most for
tunate locality. probably, in the United
States, ana it ought to have a larger
population than Chicago OF st Louis.
Great fires and destructive tornadoes are
unknown here. EpIdemics are rare,
and make but little headway, even
when they get pretty fair start. Were
il not for consumption. the mortuary
report of this city would be hardly worth
publishing. Then there is its geograph-
ical position for business-its great rail
road to the South-its water-route to the
gulf Come down and see us, you people
in the north with capital to invest
Courier, Journal
Year: 1877

Translated FROM SCHILLER By BULwER.


Heavy and solemn,


A cloudy column.
Through the green plain they marching come
heasureess spread, like a table dread
For the wild grim dice OF the iron game,
Looks are bent on the shaking ground
Hearts beat low with knelling sound
Swift by the breast that must bear the brunt
Gallops the Major along the front.


"Haltl"
And fettered they stand at the stark command,
And the warriors silent, halt.
Proud is the blush of morning glowing,
What on the hilltop shines in flowing?
"See you the foeman's banner waving?
We see the foemans banner wavingi"
"God be with your children and wifeln
Hark to the musc-the drum and fife
How they ring through the ranks, which they rouse


TO the STRIFE?
thrilling the sound, with their glorious tone
Thrilling they 90 through the marrow and bonei
Brothers, God grant, when this life is Ger
In the life to come that we may meet once more
See the smoke how the lightning is ceaving asunder
Hark the guns peal peal how they boom in their


thunder,
From host to host with kindling sound,
The shouted signal circles round;
Freer already breathes the breathl
The war is raging, slaughter waging,
And heavy through the Teeking pail


The iron death dice fail





Victory!
Close Is the brunt Of the glorious fight;
Aud the day, like cOnqueror, bursts the night
Trumpet ana hfe SWELLING choral alorg,
The triumph already sweeps marching in song.
There's another, IN which we shall meet you once
more,
Year: 1877

CARES OF LIFE.--Buslness soon yield
themselves TO care. No sooner do they
enter the world than they lose that taste
for natural and simple pleasure 20 re-
markable in early life Every hour do
they ask themselves what progress they
have made in the pursuits Of wealth and
honor and on they go, as their fathers
went before them, till, weary and sick at
heart. they look back with a sigh of
regret to the golden times Of their child
hood.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, Syphilis and re-
moves fimples and HumOrs on the face


Reason should teach that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and outward application can ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

HNHE design of this work, which has been


i very carefully prepared by Judge L. 0.
Bridewell, of Copiah county, and which will
supersede the Form Book heretofore issued
by the undersigned, is to impart to novices,
gentlemen not Learned in the 'aw above their
fellows" the routine of business required of
them when they assume the responsible and
now important office of Justice of the Peace.
Under the present Constitution of Mssissip-
pi, the iursd ction Of Justices of the Peace in
Civil Suits is raised to one hundred and fifty
dollars, and in all criminal matters their Ju
risdction is concurrent with that of the Cir
cult Courts in all cases where the punishment
prescribed by the laws does not extend beyond
a fine and Imprisonment in the county jail.
The office is certainly one of great dignity, and
the main design of this work is to be of some
assistance to the unlearned Justice of the
Peace by placing the law relating to his juris-
diction before him In compact FORM with forms
and precedents, covering almost, if not every
case, which can come before him. Notes are
added to many of the forms for the guidance
and information of the Justice, endeavoring
thereby TO explain the law and use of the form,
SO that none, however ignorant of the law
generally, can go far wrong.


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


POWER s. BARKSDALE,
Jackson, Miss.
Year: 1877

Suppose" he said to the barkeeper,
suppose you had four hundred and
twelve dollar. twelve and half cents,
and, holding the position you do, draw
ing stated salary and having free
access to the money drawer. you would
have just the amount of idle capital
represented by them fggers, wouldn't
you Now, when man has Idle
capital what does he do with it? Why,
he invests it where it will earn some
thing for itself. don't he. Now in
casting about for some place to put it
where it will DO the most good, he
naturally lights on savings bank, as
being something combining safety with
profit, and he walks up to a cashier.
planks down his pile and says, give
me tank book and lie walks out
feeling that his idle capital is in a
safe place, and no longer idle. but pro-
ducipg something. Now this is what
you would do with that suppesabie
four hundred twelve aud half-but
being a barkeeper you might invest it
In diamond pin; but we're supposing
that you don't want your capital to re-
main idle-and the next morning you
wake up and come down. town aud pick
up the newspaper, and the first thing
that strikes your eye is that your saw
ings bank busted, and its president has
gone on pleasure trip to the Sand
wich Islands. and you're ruined COM
munity. Now, the natural result of all
this is that you're a victim of misplaced
confidence. amt it ."


While the haraDgue detailed above
was being delivered, the ba, keeper
stood pensively turning towel around
the inside of a glass. and answered
never word until the last question
was put. whep he sat down the glass
on the bar, gave it twirl with MS
fingers. and looking the customer
straight in the eye, said: MY friend,
you needn't unreel any more of that
rope; | might as we'll tell you right
here that if you expect to spar me out
of drink on that kind of lip you're
the worst victim of mispalaced conf
dence between here and the North
Pole"


Il might a'knowed it; sweetness
wasted on the desert air." was all the
impecunious one said. as he turned
sadly away and started ont to try the
next house.
Year: 1877

In - recent speech of an attorney in
libel suit, the following language oc-
ours. which we commend to the atten-
tion OF cur contemporaries of this city,
and which represents our views as we'll
AS we could state them ourselves:
"There has grown up sort of common
law of obligation recognized mutually
by the press snd the people, by which
the people expect that the press, as dis
trihutors cf useful intelligence, shall
inform them. as well what is To be
avoided as what is to be sought, as well
who is to be suspected as who is to be
confided in. And newspaper, as gar


nerer and distributor of news, is n pub
lie monitor, and il Is its duty to adj
monish the people against frauds and
shams, and impostures and dishoncs


ties II is to be Beacon as we'll as
guide; and whenever a public ne ~spa-
per. through its diversified appliances
for the collection and distribution Of
information. discovers anywhere in
public life and in public avocations.
whether it be a lawyer, or u clergyman.
or physician, man who. instead of
securing the public welfare by honora-
BILE methods and practices. simply
prowls about in the back yard of his
profession aud uses the means and in
strumentalities which an honorable title
gives him to pander to his own lust or
avarice, or any other passion. and
that paper which fails to send out some
admonitory advice. and sound some
signal Of warning. is recreant to every
principle of duty and responsibility,
and should be stigmatized by the pub.
lie it pretends to represent AMI serve"