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Year: 1878

A WOMAN disguised in male costume
was recently discovered among the
teamsters and wood-choppers employed
by a railroad company at Poplar Bluffs,
Arkansas. She had made herself very
popular with her co.laborers by her
neat appearance, straightforward bearing
and superior vocal powers. Her sex was
not suspected, but being taken i'll Of fe-
yer the secret was revea led. She was
properly cared for, and on recovering
returned to her chosen occupation OF
driving team. Her excuse Is that she
cannot obtain employment as w,Sar,
and that as man she gets much higher
pay than she would as domestic
Year: 1878

A BELGIAN physician was appointed
to investigate II o cause of the prevalence
of color blindness in the county, and re-
port to the government. He did so, and
says it is due to the general and excess
i've use Of tobacco. A competent medi-
cal authority says dangerous diseases are
often contracted by inhaling the smoke
blown from the mouth of an incessant
smoker.
Year: 1878

HE quoted Scripture when he said to
his father, who stood at one end of the
switch and asked his son TO catch the
other end on the fly: alt is better to
give than to receive" But he found a
passage in Shakespeare equally appro-,
pirate when, finding that the game Of
give and catch was prolonged beyond
endurance, he murmuredi "This is
very like q whale"
Year: 1878

The Greencastle Qnd. horse which
sank out of sight in a bayfield, the
other day is now reported to have been
drawn out of the Seelyeville coal mine,
alive and well, in the enormous bucket
with which the flooded mine is being
bailed out, after having travelled
through some old passage of the mine
into which he fell. 1t sounds more
like a cock and bull than horse story,
however.
Year: 1878

On Tuesday night, as Officer Richards
was on patrol In the neighborhood of Sixth
and King streets, he saw o person acting
suspiciously back Of a market wagon, which
was backed against the curb stone. Who
on seeing the officer, fled, and In his flight,
he dropped several pairs of chickens which
he had taken from wagon.
Officer Richards fred at the man but did
not hit him. At Front and King street the
chase was given up.
Year: 1878

YOUNG MAN JUMPS FROM A THIRD STORY
WINDOW AND rs BADLY INJURED.
Yesterday morning at o'clock, Thomas
Casper, colored youth leaped from third
story window of the house No. s22 Lord
street, nesr the railroad. "


After some delay DR.. Ogle was summoned
and it Wis discovered that the young man
had sustained serious injuries. His right
thigh was badly broken, the bones protrud-
ing through the skin, and he was uncon-
scious, caused by concussion of the brain
as bis head struck the pavement W ith great
force. Tn addition TO the above injuries he
is supposed to be hurt internally. He was
removed to the Aims House shortly after
seven O'Clock yesterday morning He was
easier last night, but there are no hopes of
his recovery.


He was conscious for short time before
he was moved, and said that he had been
dreaming, when the whistle of passing
train aroused him suddenly, and in this
startled state of mind he rushed to the
window to eaye the house, thinking It was
door on the first floor, and lesped through
it. He is from Centreville, where he has o
brother and sister, and he came to this city
last Monday on visit.


We would also mention that four or five
physicians were called upon and implored
to attend the unfortunate youth, but all re-
fused except Dr., Ogle.
Year: 1878

Tod y there will be a large sale Of dry
goods by the Sheriff at No. 126 Market
street. The entire stock which is of fine
quality, forms large and varied assort.
ment, and must be closed out. A chance
for such good bargain is seldom offered,
and all persons desiring goods of the finest
quality at low prices, should attend.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, April 17--Upon the with
drawal OF the writ OF habeas corpus in
the case of Ex- Governor Moses in court
to-day he prisoner was placed under
the control of Sergeant kealy, of the
central office, who delivered him to the
agent Of the state of South Carolina
who had first arrested him, and it is
supposed that he is now on his way
south,
Year: 1878

"A gentleman from Coatesville, Pa, is
now In town considering the cost and ar
ranging the details for large mum ber of
ne" dwellings, which he proposes to
% erect In the neighborhood of Church and
Year: 1878

l.. R. Gazette: There was never a time in all tie history of Arkansas when the country press exhibited more activity and enterprise than at the present. It is true that some of our country exchanges have been hard pressed; with a few the wolf has been at the door, but almost without any exception they say to the people in the language of the Beebe Statesman I've intend to stick" Do the people know the profit which comes from an active and cordial support of q country newspaper? Do you realize the fact that the money which they expend in supporting their newspaper comes back to them a hundred fold in the growing intelligence, the increased business and general prosperity of the public. Don't say your paper is little and dearer than the great Eastern weeklles, but go to work and make it larger, more at tractive and more useful. Support your own schools, your own manu- lecturers, but, most of all, your own papers. Let every man in Arkansas remember that if he would be intelli- gent, if he would assist in calling at tention to his immediate local inter- ests and so add to the general ad- vancement of the State, he should do his best to sustain his county paper. Little Rock Gazette.
Year: 1878

A mans first necessity is to ind q
woman physically able to support the
cares and duties which attend that po-
sition. Solomon, who from long eX-
perience with wives ought to know
what constitutes a good one, described
his favorite wife as one who spun wool
and flax and took care of the house,
ETC., in short, he means to say that she
shall possess a large share of physical
potency. II is the power TO do, with
out which no woman deserves the name
of wife. Within the past decade some
Young men in choosing wives have dis
regarded this advice of Solomon's, and
have since repented. But young men
are fast becoming more careful and
wise i'm the matter. They are learning
that pretty face and form, though
doubtless desirable acc0mpaniments,
are not the whole requisites of a good
wife. 1t is true that there are some
thOughtless exceptions among the
young men, but they are simpletons.
But above them are thoughtful men,
who do not and viii not fall in love
blindly, but who are looking for the
wife which Solomon commends, and
who will not be satisfied without such
one. l do not wish to reveal any
ones secrets, but have had men say
TO me when talking upon the subject of
this discourse: "Girls, nowadays, arc
too frail to marry Does anyone
think the young man to blame who says
this and then stands aloOf from the
marriage altarP Surely not. And does
the young lady who is too weak to
sweep her own room, or to make her
own toilet, think such a young man
will hasten TO proposeP II so, she is
mistaken; young men OF to day are fast
becoming wise through the experience
of their unfortunate friends. DE-


Fletcher's Recent Lecture ia Buffalo.


NEprtNE,s coat OF arms--the crest of
Year: 1878

The pernicious tendencies Of the habit ol

 becoming security for others in matter.

 where the endorser is in no sense party Tn interest. except so far as Ic desires to ac- commodate friend, are so apparent, and

 been SO often exemplified, that it would seem almost work of supererrogation to point them out to au intelligent public, and yet we see the evil iadulged in every dayby men who otherwise appear to be gifted with ordinary common sense. That the practice is wrong, both in fact and theory, is too plain proposition for any dispute.

 If 4 borrows moDey from B, and agrees to remuncratc hm for the use of it. then is the party to be benefited and the one who ought 10 take the chances. If \ IS certain to pay him. he needs no security, as he will receive his money back with usury, without the endorsement of C, who haJ besn solicited to sign the note with 4, as a matter of accommodation to 4 and safety to E; but on the other hand, if X shall prove unable or unwilling to pay B his money, ana fails to mee. his agree ment to settle, then it is utterly and entirely wrong for C, who has no in terest in the transaction whatever, has not shared in the use of the money nor been promised any part in the interest which has accrued to B, to be obligea to pay tie amount for A to E. B, in this case, is the party who Is promised the reward, and ought to be the one to take the risk. Tens of thousands of % ,d men aud women are thrown out of houses and homes every year by this perni- eious habit of goi-g security for others, and it is about time that the Legislatures of the several stsles should pass laws rem dcring such obligations void, n order to oo away with so frightful source of evil, The Legislature of Arizona could not do the people better service than to enact a law making all obligations in the nature of personal security absolutely void, unless the secured can prove that tho endorser Is also made secure collaterally OF otherwise, Official bonds are also a nuisance that cuSut io Dc aoViiSbSu5 anu s"O "Ni""''''' VI officer guilty of malfeasance in office should be punished by the law more severely. As the law now stands, tho official rascal goes comparatively free, while .is confiding bondsmen are ruined in business, tLeif families impoverished, ana they indeed punished instead of the scoundrel who Is really guilty. in all such eases. the whole people are better able to stand the loss than a few bondsmen are, and the law should l be changed so as to punish the offender in- l stead of bis security.

 Let Arizona take the lead in this whole some reform, and others Sill not be slow to recognize the wisdom and justice Of the system, and follow her example.
Year: 1878

Any small scrap of paper. even if it is not sufficiently large to express in full that which Is desired printed, such as the mar. gina portion of the corner of newspaper. Is all that is necessary to insure the cor rectness of notice or article in print It may be as well to have the first and last words written in long hand, the interme- diate portion can he filled up with pot hooks. Egyptian hierogiyphics, or signs of tne Zodiac, tine compositoi can guess it every tune; and as for names, if the writer Is familiar with them himself, mere dash Of the pen makes it as plain as mud to the printer. And then it's music to the com posit0rs ears to hear the writer of sauib blusteringly enquire tafter the paper Is priated,, aWho set up this article and made such hIuuder when, in reality, the ouiy sin consisted in his own stupidity in read ing ''proof"
Year: 1878

LITTLE ScARcE.-B Butter, of which Pres colt is generally we'll supplied with an ex- eellent quality, is scarce, in fact not a single store in Prescott has the article for sale. It is now good time for cur sa;ry friends to unnack their barrels of butter and bring the same to market. It has been the cry for the last three or four years that butter making in Yavapai County would be an unavoidable business owing to the fact that good cows were becoming numerous, and the persons entering into the dairy business were many, still the price keeps up and ranges aii the way from Sixty cents to one dollar per pound, and now, jest on the eve of the holidays, we find ,he Pres colt market entirely destitute of this very essential article far table use.
Year: 1878

Detroit Free Press.


This is a dog.


DO you see the dog?


He looks as natural AS life.


The dog is called by some, mans most
faithful servant. One or two instances
have been known where a dog frightened
away thief or bit an sgent. They have
also been known to bark st the moon
and thus prevent it falling and dashing
the earth to pieces. If it wasn't for dogs
We wouldn't know what to do with our
old oyster cans. You can now ask ANY
questions you desire.


How large is q dog2


Well. that depends If he's running
away from you he looks about the siE, OF
gallon jug, but If he's coming at you
ne looks as large % a yearling calf"


Do dogs guard the house 7'


Yes; particularly the kitchen door.
Nothing hurts a dogs feelings SO much
as to have his master thinx he's waiting
for henes instead Of being on guard"


Can s dog take hint ?"


d" Yes. A soon rs one sees a farmer
coming across the fields with gun he
knows that killing sheep Is over inr that
morning and away he goes "


Are dogs very strong ?"


You'd think they could pull a saw
log to Judge by the amount OF bowling
they viii do between dusk and day
break, but the minute boy wants a
ride on his sled the family dog is troubled
with heart disease and general weak.
ness"


Can dogs find the way home from
long distances ?"


It's according to the dog. If it's one
yeu want to get rid OF be csn find hi
way back home from California Ii it's
good one he's apt 10 get lost If he goes
round the corner"


"Can dogs see in the dark ?"


Some appear to, but instances are not
rare where dogs, commanded to rush GU
and devonr the fellow hooking wood
have rushed under the bed by mistake
nj stay th3rs. That's all about do g.
Year: 1878

A DANBURY school teacher has hit
upon an ingenious device for furnishing
children who laugh in school. She
stands them on cnair, with cleth over
their heads. This knocks the levity out
of them, and adds nightly to the scenery
of the room.-News. Don't you think
if she were to stand them on their heads,
with cloth over the chair, she would
Just as effectually cure their levity and
make more thrilling interior view p
Norristown Herald.
Year: 1878

The New York Herald, in sp ,aking of the
SIIALLENBERGER bill. says:


This proposal is the sbsurdcst compromise
that could have been imagined. On the LIST of
January next there will be about hundred
million dollars of gold In the Treasury and, If
all the mints should be kept active say twenty
million dollars of silver Such state Of
things would not.be adapted to the halEand-
half method Of resumption. As soon rs forty
millions of grccnbacks had been redeemed the
Treasury would have nothing but gold and
would be compelled either tO suspend specie
payments or violate the half-and.half law.
This would be merely first step in the road
of absurlity. As soon as silver coin became
abundant all the gold in the country would be
exported and We should be destitute of legal
tender. Nothing is more completely demon
,trHted by science and by history than that
two kinds Of money Of unequal value cannot
be made to circulate together In the same
country, the more valuable being always eX-
ported The only silver compromise that
could be made TO work in practice would be
either pretty high limit to the amount
Of silver coined, or a pretty high limit to the
amount which should be legal tender in one
payment. To make silver u tender to the
amount Of so would be practicable though
an injudiciOus compromise but the half-and.
half proposal Is an impracticable whimscy.


Now, suppose this bill does not pass. On
the lst OF next January we have SlOO,OOO,,
900 in gold. As soon rs Sl00,DO0,O00 OF
grcenbacks had been redeemed, what then
Violate the whole law? Again: "As soon
as silver coin became abundant all the gold
in the country would be exported, and we
should be destitute of legal tender" Fur
thcr on this is ilatly contradicted, when we
are told Make silver abundant put high
limit to the amount Of silver coined, make
it legal tender to tn" amount of S5O-tC
the extent of fifty per cent of 800 debt
a poor mans debt; that is practicable-then
gold will not leave the country. So say we all
If gold will not leave the country when sill
yer is a legal tender to the extent Of fifty
per cent of q 500 debt, it will not whcr
the debt is 100000; and if it is right to
limit silver in that way, it is right to limit
gold in that way. Put the metals wher,
the Constitution and the laws intended then
to be, on precisely the same plane.
Year: 1878

BY existing laws the President, in his dis
cretion, can retire from active service an
officer of the army so soon as he attains the
age Of sixty-two years, provided there is q
vacancy in the limited number allowed on
the retired list. This power being left to
the discretion of the President, each officer
arriving at the fatal age seeks, through
personal influence, to be retained, and the re-
suit is that those serving in Washington or
who have powerful friends at court, stay in
the service till death, while those doing the
severe campaigning life on the frontier have
to 80. AT this time, while only one officer
of the line is eligible for retirement, over
thirty of the non.combatant class are. This,


in itself, shows n sufficient reason why the
army should be on the same footing as the
navy. Let Congress so declare, and this
species Of fhvoritism, which is so hurtful to
the service, will no longer be known.
Year: 1878

GOLD went down to one and a quarter to.
day. Let Senator CONKLING hold tho silver
men just where they are now for two or three
weeks longer, and resumption will be
reachcd.-I Ner York Commercial idrcrtiscr.


And when resumption is reached "the
silver men" will not surrender to the gold
power here or elsewhere, until the honest
silver dollar of our ancestors is restored to
its rightful position as factor in our cur
rency. The people want money. They
want honest money, and they will not be
whistlcd down the wind by those who
make gold their idol.
Year: 1878

IT now looks as if Mr. BRIsTOw attempted
TO ride too msny horses at the Boston feed
The Independent Republican press which
favored his nomination for President at the
last National Republican Convention gives
back no word of encouragement TO the po-
sitions taken upon that occasion by their
once favorite but at present apparently
forgotten candidate. Mr. BRIsTOw has had
his day and occasion, and they do not
often repeat themselves.
Year: 1878

WE would again call the attention OF
business men and others to the fact that we
have connected with our Office one of the
most complete job printing offices in the
country, which is prepared at all times to
do all kinds of printing in the best Of style
and Mt the most reasonable prices. Espe-
cially is this true of legal printing, briefs,
arguments, speeches, etc.
Year: 1878

THE editors of the State of Pennsylvania
bet in annual session Yesterday at Harris
burg under the organization of the State
Editorial Association. The object is TO pro-
mote a fraternal feeling and community
Of interest in the profession. Such an or.
ganization is no place for Ishmaeltes and
iilth-slingers.
Year: 1878

HORSE AND MAN IN TIE DocR.-some ex-
citement was caused yesterday by the fall
ing OF horse into the dock near Fifteenth
street. While trying 70 extricate the horse
white and colored man had a difficulty,
ana the latter was also Knocked into the
ooek. Man and horse were both fsbed out
without serious injury.
Year: 1878


A MEETING OF LEADING BANKS CALLED TO AGREE


TO PLAN or UNITED ACTION.


meeting of presidents Ofthe leading banks has
been called for this afternoon to arrange for concert
of action regarding future loans. The fear OF the
passage of the Silver Bill by two-thirds vote has
aroused the bankers, and the intention is to have
united action to make no future loans except on
gold basis. Several banks and banling-houses have
already taken the initiative, and now decline loans
to be paid in currency, except to regular deposltars
Among these are the First National Bank, the Amer
lean Exchange Bank and the banking house OF
WinSlow, Laner K Co.


prominent banker, who is heartily in favor Of
the proposed pan said yesterday, that no good re-
suits could be looked for without concerted action
If few banks require gold basis, without the
hearty cooperation Of the other banks, there would
be a tendency to concentrate all the business of
loans in the hands of other mOneyed institutions. To
prevent this difficulty. and to make use of the only
sure remedy against a flood of silver, which would
follow the passage of the Bland bill, and in the end
would destroy the value of Government securities
and long loans, the meeting Of officers of hading
money -oaning institutions has been called to act
together in the present emergency


If gold basis is agreed to here, great confidence
Is expressed that similar action will be promptly
taken by the banks in Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore. Bank officers were not inclined to dis
cuss the proposed meeting yesterday. but they all
agreed that the time for decisive steps
had arrived. President Winston, OK the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, has completed
his address to the Finance Committee, in which
he takes strong ground in favor of making the gold
standard the basis Of all future loans, in order to
save the millions of bond and real estate assets of
the company from being paid hereafter in a depre-
cated coin currency, should the Bland bill become
a law.


A member of the Syndicate stated that up to yes
terday he had some hope that the Bland bill wonld
be defeated, but when he learned how Judge
Davis, of Illinois, had been manufacturing
public sentiment to bolster him mp on the
silver question, and how vigorously Senator
Jones was working sacrificing everything for
votes in favor of the bill, he had given up all
hope. lie expressed the opniQp that noney-loanlne
institutions could only save the country from the
crayrSt financial disasters by working harmoniously
together on gold basis for loans.
Year: 1878

From ali parts of the country re-
ports come of the lm mense sales and
increasing demand for that deserv-
ingly popular Sewing Machine, The
Old and Reliable "STANDARD," the
price of which the proprietors wisely
reduced to $50, including all the at,
tachmentS, and at once secured for
them popularity among the peO-
pie, far beyond that ever yet attain
ed by any other machine at any
price, the consequence of which is,
agents are leaving the old high priced
machines, and seeking territory for
the "SrANDARD." knowing from
experience that with the best goods
at the lowest price they can outsell
All other Machines, where the supe-
ior quality and low price is made
known. This splendid Machine
combines all the improvements. Is
far ahead of all Others in beauty and
durability of its work, ease of man
agement, light running and certainty
of operation, is sensibly made upon
sound principles, with positive work.
lns parts all steel, and can be safely
put down as the very perfection of
Serviceable Sewing Machine, in
every particular, that will outlast
any Machine, and at price far down
below any other. 1t is thoroughly
warranted for five years. Kept in
order free Of charge. And sent to anv
part of the Country for examination
by the customer before payment of
the bill. We can predict equally as
large a demand for them in this
section as in others. Families desir-
ing the best Machine manufactured
should write direct to the Factory.
And enterprising persons wishing to
seize the chance should apply for so
deslrabl Die an agency. See advertise
ment in another part of this paper.
Address, Standard Machine Co., Cor,
broadway and Clinton Place, New
York.
Year: 1878

The New York Herald, independ-
ent, says the Democrats will have
close shave to elect the speaker of the
next House, and says this is " a mel
ancholy exhibit for a party which
confidently expected a majority of
twenty-five or thirty, which only a
year ago was so sure of the next
Presidency that it had hard work to
determine upon whom to bestow the
great office"