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Year: 1877

The voice of the people has made
itself heard. The great meetings
in Washington, Columbus and In
dianapolis prove that the Demo
cratic and Independent masses are
determined not to abate jot or
little of their just demands. From
the morning after election, when
the corrupt design of the Republi-
can leaders to count. in Hayes was
fully formed, until now, they have
relied on the acquiescence of the
people in their acts. They trusted
to their submission to any wrong
rather than bring on q struggle.
They believed that the men whose
fathers fought for the principle of
presentation with taxation, would
tamely allow a corrupt Administra-
tion to wrest from them the right
to choose their own rulers. BY this
time they have learned their mis-


take. The people have kept the
peace, and propose to keep it, but
because they are silent they have
been by no means Indifferent or un-
watchful. They have preserved
throughout IAN unbroken front, and
have not yielded a single inch to
the Republicans. On the contrary,
all the gains are on the side Of the
Democrats. The number of Repub


licans who concede Tilden's cleo
tion is growing every day, and the
time is mot distant when they will
be heard from, while the Democrats
are showing every day more reso-
lutte determination to stand up
bravely for their rights. They are
not ashamed to meet in public, dis
cuss the situation, and denounce
the plot to manufacture President.
Do the Republicans meet? They
dare no., for they know that the
first step towards public expires
sion of opinion or an Organization
to support Mr.. Hayes claim would
disclose the fact that a large pro-
portion of their own party are
against them in this matter. To
sound the call to meet would only
give the signal for the fatal division
to show itself. How resolute and
how fired with patriotic zeal the
Democratic masses are, the meet
ings on the Sth of January attest.
They have only to preserve this in
flexible attitude, and the contempla-
ted outrage on the people will be
frustrated, once and forever.
Year: 1877

The Memphis Ledger is of the
opinion that the laws of Tennessee
are defective with reference to ju
rors, and ignorance is the test OF
jurors qualification, while intelli-
gence shuts him out. A citizen
who reads the newspapers and who
has formed or expressed an opinion
as to the guilt or innocence of a
person alleged to have committed a
crime in said papers, is disqualified
under the laws of Tennessee from
sitting as a juror, but the man who
cannot or who will not read and
who gropes in the darkness of be-
sotted ignorance forms no such
opinion and is legal juror. Ev-
cry intelligent and educated Amcri
can citizen would rather trust being
tried for an offense by a judge or
by q newspaper-reading and intelli-
gent jury than by twelve ignoram-
uses who can not read, or who do
not read if they can, or by dozen
professional jurors who, whether
they read or not, always swear that
they have neither formed nor ex-
pressed any opinion upon the sub
ject. In other States the jury laws
are far in advance toward cIviliza
ton than in our own State. The
result Of the jury system is to acquit
criminals and turn them loose upon
the community. No one can attend
tile Criminal Court room and listen
an hour to the legal figh. made over
the empaneling ola jury without
being convinced that our jury sys-
TEN IS Of the past age. is q humbug,
and a very dangerous huinbug at
that.
Year: 1877

Ye local received one vote at the
election for Aldermen, and be was
very busy cogitating over the most
elaborate and hostile manner and
style that he should adopt in re
turning his thanks to the dear peo
pie for their expressed confidence
in his splendid administered capa-
bilities, when in rushed a voter and
told him he had voted for him
through mistake, intending to vote
for L. w. Reader. did you ever,
as we have, hold your diamond pin
worth S263, 3,569.32 on the tip of
your little finger over the side of
a ship when it was rocking in a
storm that cast up billows mountain
high all about you and have it
swept from your grasp to the pitt
less depths of old ocean? We eX
perienced such bitter pangs as such
a catastrophe would infict, until
we happened to remind our memory
that we didn't live in the corpora
ton. o, the evanescent glitter of
political preferment! How 1t sloshes
a fellow around and wallows him
about in the mud, until he grasps
the glittering gem and finds it to be
pure oreidei
Year: 1877

The object of the order are de-
clared to be to unite fraternally. all
acceptable men of every profession,
business or occupation; TO give all
moral and material aid in its power
to members of the order, by holding
moral, instructive and scientific lee
lures, by encouraging each other in
business and by assisting each other
to obtain employment; to establish
d benefit fund from which a sum not
to exceed $4,000 shall be paid at the
death of each member 20 his family,
or to be disposed of as he may di-
rect; to establish fund for the re-
lief of sick and distressed members.
This order was organized in Louis
vile, about four years ago, and has
been Of very rapid growth. The
Knights of Honor now number
about fifteen thousand. Some Of
the most prominent men Of the State
belong to this order-among them
our worthy Governor. II is the
cheapest insurance company that
has yet been organized, and besides
the insurance there are Other inesti-
mable vantages to be derived from it.
Year: 1877

The war ended twelve years ago,


and every memory thereof should


be banished from the minds of the


people. If the seeding States are


ever to be entitled to their former


position in the equal slsterhood of


States, surely the time has come


by limitation if by nothing else.


But there are men still to be found


at the North, leaders of the republi-


can party and officials in high sta


ton, who have for their sole polite


al capital the bitter memories of the


past-forever calling up apparitions


and appealing to prejudice and


hate to carry their points. The


people of the South have been


cowed and are yet submissive,


meekly suffering reproach and rely


ing wholly upon the power of right
to assert itself, and waiting patient


ly for common sense and Justice to


work a reaction in Northern senti-
ment. 1t seems to be the policy to


day for the South to stand back
and let their Northern brethren


plead their case for them. We seri-
ously doubt the propriety of such
policy. The South has a perfect
right to assert It's thoughts, main
tain its rights and argue its own
case, for the reason that a Southern
State Is the peer of any Northern
State. That is sufficient reason,
but there is another more powerful
still. The twelve years that have
elapsed since the war have brought
upon the stage thousands upon
thousands Of young men who did
not participate in the war. Some
of them are eminent to-day, leaders
of parties and principles, forming
and guiding sentiment and origina-
ting new plans for the people.
These men form a large element
in politics, and responsibility for
the war and its consequences cannot
be imputed to them. They are not
under the ban-they did not precip
itate the war, did not assist in the
war, and are in no wise responsible
for it or its consequences. These
upon thousands of free
men in the South, standing upon an
equal footing with the freemen of
the North, with no charges standing
against them, imbued with that high |
sense of the sacredness and snblim-
ity of their exalted stations as free
born American citizens which a
knowledge of her institutions begets
in the minds of all lovers OF liberty
these men at least have not only the
right to speak out, but it is their
supreme duty to assert that right |
and to raise their voices in solemn
and unequivocal protest against the
efforts of conspirators and usurpers
to undermine the column upon
which is reared the fabric of Amer |
lean liberty. Let the South speak
out as one man, and the common
sense of the North will soon lead it |
to recognize our right and duty to
do so. The writer had nothing to
do with the war, and as Southern
man and an American citizen he
claims the right to say what he
pleases to say, to protest when he
deems it necessary, to do as he sees
fit, always in the Union and for the
Union.
Year: 1877

Whoever was elected must be put
in; and if in any State, as In Louis
lana, there have been such malprac
tice and corruption by both sides
that no legitimate result was reach
ed. then the constitution points out
the next proper course, which IS
that each house shall Immediately
proceed TO chose one Of the two OH
cers-one the president, the other
the vice president.--New York Her
oid
Year: 1877

STEAMBOAT OPPosTTIoN.-Lively times
in steamboat travel have again been inau-
gurated by the Otter and Annie Stewart,
both boats being on the route together for
the first time, between this place and Seat
tie, on Tuesday last. The Annie arrived
at Union wharf some time in advance of
her opponent: however when the latter
put In an appearance her liberal passen-
ger list, some %, showed that she had a
large advantage in the way Of patronage.
Capt. Jackson Is a pleasant, accommodate
ing gentleman, and under his manage
ment, the Otter being well adapted to
the trade on her present route will doubt
less prove formidable rival of the Star
line.
Year: 1877

A SETTLER just from the Qulllyhute
prairies informs us that the people down
there are ''getting on nicely" and that
they get about all the news from the out
side world. Those folks take the ARGUS
regularly. We are informed that emil
grants will soon be pouring into that sec
ton Of the country In great numbers; also
that gold hunting expedition win prob
ably soon be fitted out to explore the
mountain range between that place and
the Sound country, DIV
Year: 1877

EMGRANTs.-The City of Panama, on
her last trip from San Francisco, brought
% passengers for this port, most Of whom
were emigrants looking for homes which
they will doubtless find without going
much farther. 1t has been confidently
asserted on good authority that jefferson
county has more unoccupied, firsE-class
agricultural land than any other county
on the Sound. This being fact, doubt
less people do well In making Port Town
send their objective point while travelling.
Year: 1877

a word with you, disheartened fel
low-worker, upon whom, not unfre.
quently, drops the black, unweIcome
cloud of tired, discouraged moods in
which you utter yourself unconsciously
in that bitter, sOul-sick cry of Hamlet
o, that this too, too solid flesh, would melt.
! Ihaw, and resolve itself into a dew;
or, that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter, 0 GodI 1
God!


| How weary, stale, fiat, and improbable
| Seem to me all the uses of this worldw


In these wretched, despairiug seasons,
If there be anything at all worth living
and striving for, you fail absolutely to
discern it. Just simply to creep out OF
life and be forever rid of its burden OF
perplexities, its torture of hope deferred,
its wearing WEAKNESS of unsatisfied
longing-this, you feel, is all that you
could ask or wish.


And while you sit in the vaporing
shadow of these evil and unhappy hu-
mors, it is vain to look for any philo-
sophical reflection, or profound utter
ance of wisdom and experience to touch
you with any gleam of light or tender
warmth of comfort; not until the over
hanging cloud, rent by force of its own
weight, scatters to the unknown realms





be able to take once more a rational
view of life, and return with renewed
hope and energy to the tasks that had
fallen unfinished from your discouraged
or impatient hands.


But, did you never think, when you
pass again into the glad, cheerful light
of day, and rejoice anew in the con-
seriousness of strength, in the dignity of
purpose, and in the hOldneSs of faith &.
did you never think how far it was DOS
slbie to. have avoided that depression
and waste of vital force which so Grip
pied your power, and impeded the prog
ress of your work ? Did it ever occur to
you that the gloomy influence which
always seems to leap upon you from
some mysterious outer world of dark
ness, might, perhaps, have its source in
yourself and be, therefore, subject, in a
greater or less degree, to your control ?
chronological Journal.
Year: 1877

position church, as he was pleased tC
style it, and his pretty daughter looked
longingly from the depths of her home
made hood at the manly form Of hel
lover as he hurried by the window on
his way to church with his hand in the
breast pocket that she knew con aimed
her presumptuous missive.


No sooner had her letter gone beyond
the possibility of recall than she would
have given anything to have l ad it
back; and its reception must have struck
King unpleasantly, she thought, else he
would not have passed the little meet
ing-house without so much as a glance
at her.


The meeting was over at last, and
! Martha was assisting her mother into
the great sleigh when the crowd came
pouring forth from the other church,
among them Kingston Greensborough,
who paused and greeted the women
with pleasant word. Major Marble
head would not look at the young man,
and he capped the climax of authority
by forbiddiDg wife or daughter to ever
speak to him again.


'How lucky that Pm post office,
Sis" said the precocious Gus, in tit
tering whisper. "He hasn't commanded
you not to write, you know"


The days and weeks hurried them
selves into months, and finally every
thing was ready for the forthcoming
journey across the continent.


Had the weather been pleasant, the
young couple could have bad opportu-
nifty to meet in the grove, or by the way
side, or in a neighbours garden; but the
rigOr of winter kept up its sternest real
tiles till unusually late, and the break
ing up of snow and ice that followed
was even worse than the winter had
been.


Now-they were on the eve of depart
ure and King was in despair. AS he
had been forbidden the house, he could
not hOnorably present himself in
Martha's presence, and he much dis
liked the idea of bringing a neighbor
into his confidence. Yet lucky chance
favored him. A neighbor fell seriously
i'll, and Martha went to pay her fare
well visit, when whom should she meet
but Kingston Greensborough.


81 felt that you must come, for I knew
that 1 would see you," he exclaimed,
while a subdued sorrow spoke in his
tone, and suspicious moisture dimmed
his eyes.


"YOu'll forget me, King" said Martha,
sadly.


"Forget you, oh, my Pearlr' he cried,
grasping her hand, while the sick ueigh-
Dor in the adjoining room coughed
loudly to prevent overhearing.


"Will you be mine when 1 come to
claim you in your far-off home ?'' he
asked, tremulously.


"Forever, my King" she whispered,
half audibly.


Leave them alone, reader, if for but a
moment. You and I have no business
in their presence now.


ITO be continued
Year: 1877

A REMEDY FOR Work is
your true remedy. If misfortune hits
you hard, you hit something else hard;
pitch into something with a will.


There's nothing like good, solid, exhaus-
tive work to cure trouble. If you have
met with losses, you don't want to lie
awake and think about them. You
want sleep-calm, sound sleep-and to
eat your dinner with an appetite. But
you can't unless you work. If you say
you don't feel like work and go loafing
all day to tell Tom, Dick and Harry the
story of your woes, you'll lie awake and
keep your wife awake by your tossing,
spoil your temper and your breakfast
next morning, and begin tomorrow
feeling dozen times worse than you


do to-day. There are some great trou-
bles that only time can heal, and per-
haps some that never can be helped by
the great panacea, work. Try it, you
who are afflicted. 1t is not a patent
medicine. 1t has proved its efficiency
since first Adam and Eve left behind
them, with weeping, their beautiful
Eden. 1t is an efficient remedy. All
good physicians in regular standing
prescribe tin cases of mental and moral
disease. 1t operates kindly as well,
leaving no disagreeable effects, and we
assure you that we have taken q large
quantity of it with the most beneficial


results. 1t will cure more complaints
than any nostrum in Dldterid nledica,
and comes nearer to being a cure-all
than any drug or compound of drugs in
the market. And it will not sicken
you if you do not take it sugar-coated.
Year: 1877

A pretty young Americaness, whose
Christian name is Anna, on receiving a
cigar from a young gentleman who had
not pluck enough to say he wished to
marry her, twirled it playfully beneath
his nose, and looking archly at him,
popped the question thus, "Have
Anna ?D
Year: 1877

BLEAK, CHILLY MARCH AND NOVEMBER
are the two worst months of the year for those
Bulls Cough syrup near by, and such sufferers
will be able 10 brave this rough weather without
danger,
Year: 1877

In view of a large, andit may be sud-
den, demand for gold, the Bank of Eng
land lately raised its rate of discount from
three to four per cent. After fortnight's
trial this proved unable to restrain the
outflow of specie from the Golfers of the
bank. Therefore. another turn of the
screw has raised the rate of discount to
five per cent. There are two staples of
American produce which England must
have, and, just now, can be supplied
with only by the United States. These
are cotton and breadstuffs. Formerly,
before we began to manufacture our own
cotton and our own metals, the trade
with England was more easy than prof.
table to us. English capital and labor
worked up our raw material, and sold
them to us at from three, to four hun
dred per cent profit. The balance of trade
was then in favor of England, and we
often had to send heavy remlttances in
gold to square the account. Now, manu-
featuring for ourselves, instead Of pay
ing, we have to receive large amount
of gold from Europe. If they take, as
they must, our cotton and breadstuffs,
they have to pay for them, not in mus
Inns, celicoes, and cutlery, but in hard
cash. Thus it has come that the Bank of
England is afraid of great drain ofgold
to pay off British Indebtedness to this


country.
Year: 1877

General Sherman Is very outspoken in
and injustice to reduce the army below
its present standard, and he converses
very freely on the subject with all who
approach him. 1t is said that the COM
mittes on appropriations has discovered
that the present actual strength Of the
army Is net over twenty thousand men,
II that much, and their purpose, will be
to report.a bill providing only for the
men who are actually on the rolls,
Year: 1877

gioD, has amply borne the bitter fruit
which Christian philosophers always pre-


dicted for it. 1t raised multitudes of young
people sosa grade of intelligence far above
tho positions in life to which their pa
rentage introduced them it armed men
with dangerous weapon without discip-
lining them for its legitimate use, that is,
it gave them knowledge without morality.
What would be thought of military
school which should train and equip
soldiers without teaching them habits of
military subordination Yet, it is just
such soldiers in the civic ranks that the
State common school has turned loose upon
the country. Can we wonder at the result 2
Year: 1877

Next Thursday, which will be the last day of
May, the children of the parish of st. John
the Baptist will make their First Communion,
and in the evening of the same day they will
be CoBarmed.
Year: 1877

In speaking OF lnt pIOhpcClo VI Lax hllilS,
the Helena Independent of a recent date re-
commends to our farmers that they sow on
" half crops, whereby the product will be
90 much lessened that it will continue to
command the present high prices. Now,
we cannot look at the matter in just the
same light. for, as we have said before,
double the product at one-half the present
prices would amount to the same to- farmers
and be vastly beneficial to other industries,
, as it would enable those employed in work
inc mines that will hardly pay now to real
ize a fair profit, besides nearly doubling the
consumption. When the products OF the
farm can be had at a reasonable rate, the
work stock Of the country are fed plenty,
and keep in fix to do good service; the poor
mans table, as we'll as the rich, is we'll sup
plied with the necessaries of life, and there
does not seem to be that struggle for exist
ence which exists among the laboring classes
when everything is unreasonably high. Be
sides. there is no economy in a farmer loiter-
ing around and not producing all he can.
We would not advise the employment Of q
great deal of hired help, but every farmer
should put forward his best exertions to
produce large crop. Should it SO happen
that there should be q superabundance
raised, it does not follow that it need be
forced upon the market at less than the cost
of production. It is easy enough to keep
half of it in the granary until another year.
This would be wisdom, for there must neces-
sarily be occasional seasons when crops will
fail, in fact, until the grasshopper plague is
mastered we may expect them at least three
years out of every six. And when there IS
aprospect of having season without them,
certainly every farmer should use his utmost
exertion to fill his granaries once more. Ii
will be time enough to rest from these labors
when the land is flooded with plenty. How
ever, we do not think it wise for farmers tc
contine themselves to any particular crop
Every variety that can be grown profitabfy
should be produced, so that in the event O
dull prices for any particular crop he may
have something that will be in demand a
good figures, or in case of the appearance o
plaques, early frost Or unforeseen misfor
tune he may raise sufficiency. Industry
hath its reward.
Year: 1877

IT is estimated that fifty head of poultry
vii make more than enough manure for an
are of land, seven cwt. of guano being the
uual quantity applied per acre, and poultry
manure being even richer than guano ln
ammonia and fertilizing salts. No other
stock will give an equal return in this way,
and these figures demand careful attention
from the large farmer.
Year: 1877

The month of Ramazan is kept by all
good mussulmans as period of the
strictest fast during the day, from SUM-
rise to sunset; they abstain not only from
food of any kind whatever, but even
from liquids, taking no drop of water
during the time; they suspend also the
enjoyment of tobacco. which is scarcely
less indispensable to their daily life. As
compensation for these rigorous pri-
vations, the night is partly devoted to
feasting. For the rich and idle, who
pass in sleep the greater part OF their
days of penitence. the suffering is con-
siderably lessened; but for the poorer
classes, for workmen and servants, the
l}amszan, when it falls during the long
days of the hot summer months, is cruel
ly severe; and it is to be remarked that
ing faithful" are those who hold the
most strictly to their religious observ.
ances Aged people and children are not
required to keep the fast of Ramazan
and women in delicate health nre also
freed from the obligation for the time
but they are expected TO make up the re
quired number of penitential days before


it's occurrence in the ensuing year; anc
the ill.advised visitor who may risk {
visit to harem as that season is draw
ing near is sure to find several of tn,
inmates undergoing their days OF "peh
rip, (abstinence), and consequent.
pale, weary, and slightly out of humor
- London Society
Year: 1877

Ayoung American damsel. ofthorough-
w unembarrassed manners, recently
went to call on Gustavo Dore and found
him at work upon picture, whereupon
she was good enough not only to tell
him what to do next, but actually take
the brush out of his hand and add the
necessary touches herself. The gentle
man who accompanied her was over
whelmed with confusion, but the good
natured artist only laughed.